Once Prometheus is up and running in a Kubernetes cluster, you can start collecting metrics from the different components of Kubernetes. If you do not yet have Prometheus running in Kubernetes please refer back to the Prometheus Chapter first.
Within the Prometheus ecosystem there is a concept of creating applications that interrogate a service and expose a Prometheus formatted metrics endpoint that can then be scraped by Prometheus. These applications known as Prometheus Exporters.
In this section we will look at some of the Prometheus Exporters that are available for collecting metrics for monitoring Kubernetes: