Note that Heapster is deprecated (#8827)

* Note that Heapster is deprecated

This notes that Heapster is deprecated, and migrates the relevant
docs to talk about metrics-server or other solutions by default.

* Copyedits and improvements

Signed-off-by: Misty Stanley-Jones <mistyhacks@google.com>

* Address feedback
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Solly Ross
2018-06-12 16:27:28 -07:00
committed by Misty Linville
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@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ Kubernetes also supports a [core metrics pipeline](/docs/tasks/debug-application
A common configuration on [Minikube](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube) and some Kubernetes clusters uses [Heapster](https://github.com/kubernetes/heapster)
[along with InfluxDB and Grafana](https://github.com/kubernetes/heapster/blob/master/docs/influxdb.md).
There is a [walkthrough of how to install this configuration in your cluster](https://blog.kublr.com/how-to-utilize-the-heapster-influxdb-grafana-stack-in-kubernetes-for-monitoring-pods-4a553f4d36c9).
As of Kubernetes 1.9, the [sig-instrumentation](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-instrumentation) team is shifting away from an all-inclusive monitoring pattern with heapster, described in [Prometheus vs. Heapster vs. Kubernetes Metrics APIs](https://brancz.com/2018/01/05/prometheus-vs-heapster-vs-kubernetes-metrics-apis/).
As of Kubernetes 1.11, Heapster is deprecated, as per [sig-instrumentation](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-instrumentation). See [Prometheus vs. Heapster vs. Kubernetes Metrics APIs](https://brancz.com/2018/01/05/prometheus-vs-heapster-vs-kubernetes-metrics-apis/) for more information alternatives.
Hosted data analytics services such as [Datadog](https://docs.datadoghq.com/integrations/kubernetes/) also offer Kubernetes integration.