In this series, we’ve explored Karpenter’s architecture, the key metrics that reflect its health and performance, and the vendor-agnostic tools for collecting and analyzing its telemetry data. In this final post, we’ll show you how Datadog helps you monitor and alert on Karpenter alongside your Kubernetes cluster and the infrastructure that runs it. We’ll also look at how Datadog Cloud Cost Management (CCM) helps you correlate Karpenter’s scaling activity with cloud spend so you can actively optimize your costs.
We’ll show you how to:
Enable the Karpenter integrationVisualize and alert on your Karpenter metricsTrack cost efficiency with Cloud Cost Management
Enable the Karpenter integration
Datadog’s Karpenter integration runs as a check in the Datadog Agent and scrapes Karpenter’s Prometheus endpoint to collect metrics. In Kubernetes, the easiest way to configure the check is to use Autodiscovery, which reads integration configuration from Karpenter’s controller pods via annotations and automatically applies it so the Agent knows where to find Karpenter’s /metrics endpoint.
