github.com/caesarxuchao/heapster@v1.1.0/docs/overview.md (about)

     1  Heapster Overview
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     4  Heapster is a monitoring merics and events processing tool designed to work inside Kubernetes clusters. It consists of 2 components:
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     6  * Heapster core that reads [metrics](storage-schema.md) from Kubernetes cluster nodes (see [sources](source-configuration.md)), 
     7  do some processing and writes them to permanent storage (see [sinks](sink-configuration.md)). 
     8  It also provides metrics for other Kubernetes components through [Model API](model.md).
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    10  * Eventer that reads events from Kubernetes master (see [sources](source-configuration.md)) and writes them to permanent storage
    11  (see [sinks](sink-configuration.md)).
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