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**Google Cloud Monitoring**



Google Cloud Monitoring is a hosted monitoring service that allows you to visualize and alert on important metrics in your application. Heapster can be setup to automatically push all collected metrics to Google Cloud Monitoring. These metrics are then available in the [Cloud Monitoring Console](https://app.google.stackdriver.com/). This storage backend is the easiest to setup and maintain. The monitoring console allows you to easily create and customize dashboards using the exported data.



Here is a video showing how to setup and run a Google Cloud Monitoring backed Heapster:
"https://youtube.com/embed/xSMNR2fcoLs"
Here is a snapshot of the a Google Cloud Monitoring dashboard showing cluster-wide resource usage.



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**Try it out!**



Now that you’ve learned a bit about Heapster, feel free to try it out on your own clusters! The [Heapster repository](https://github.com/kubernetes/heapster) is available on GitHub. It contains detailed instructions to setup Heapster and its storage backends. Heapster runs by default on most Kubernetes clusters, so you may already have it! Feedback is always welcome. Please let us know if you run into any issues via the troubleshooting channels.
Title: Using Google Cloud Monitoring with Heapster and Trying Heapster
Summary
This section details how to use Google Cloud Monitoring with Heapster for visualizing and alerting on application metrics in Kubernetes. It explains that Heapster can automatically push metrics to Google Cloud Monitoring, which are then accessible in the Cloud Monitoring Console for creating custom dashboards. The section also encourages users to try Heapster on their own clusters, referencing the GitHub repository for detailed setup instructions and emphasizing that Heapster is often pre-installed on Kubernetes clusters. Feedback and issue reporting are also encouraged.