github.com/qsunny/k8s@v0.0.0-20220101153623-e6dca256d5bf/heapster-1.3.0/docs/overview.md (about) 1 Heapster Overview 2 =================== 3 4 Heapster is a monitoring metrics and events processing tool designed to work inside Kubernetes clusters. It consists of 2 components: 5 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). 9 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)). 12