Installing the Kubernetes Metrics Server
The Kubernetes Metrics Server is an aggregator of resource usage data in your cluster, and
it is not deployed by default in Amazon EKS clusters. For more information, see Kubernetes Metrics
Server
Don't use Metrics Server when you need an accurate source of resource usage metrics or as a monitoring solution.
Deploy the Metrics Server
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Deploy the Metrics Server with the following command:
kubectl apply -f https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/metrics-server/releases/latest/download/components.yaml
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Verify that the
metrics-server
deployment is running the desired number of pods with the following command.kubectl get deployment metrics-server -n kube-system
The example output is as follows.
NAME READY UP-TO-DATE AVAILABLE AGE metrics-server 1/1 1 1 6m