k8s-monitoring-helm Chart Office Hours (October 2025)

Oct 28, 2025

In the October edition of the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart office hours, we discuss the upcoming version 3.6 release as well as the plan for upcoming features.

Chapters:

0:00 Intro & Agenda

0:46 v3.6 Release

4:55 Upcoming Features

8:48 Q&A start

9:04 Can DB O11y be used for external databases?

10:30 Istio matrics opt-in?

12:10 Pod logs extra exclusions?

16:27 Adaptive traces vs tail sampling?

19:16 Namespace labels and annotations onto metrics?

26:45 Wrap up

Links/resources:
Learn more about Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart: https://github.com/grafana/k8s-monitoring-helm
Check out previous office hours:
https://github.com/grafana/k8s-monitoring-helm#office-hours
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