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name: containers-cs_ingress_monitor
title: Observing Kubernetes Ingress
description: You can monitor Kubernetes Ingress ALBs by using IBM Cloud Monitoring.
last-updated: 2026-04-14
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# Observing Kubernetes Ingress
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You can monitor Kubernetes Ingress ALBs by using IBM Cloud Monitoring.
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## Setting up monitoring with IBM Cloud Monitoring
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Gain operational visibility into the performance and health of your Kubernetes Ingress ALBs by deploying a Monitoring agent to your worker nodes to forward metrics to IBM Cloud® Monitoring. After you deploy the monitoring agent to the worker nodes in your cluster, monitoring automatically detects and scrapes the data and then displays it in your IBM Cloud Monitoring dashboard.

1. [Provision an instance of IBM Cloud Monitoring](https://cloud.ibm.com/observability/catalog/ibm-cloud-monitoring){: external}.

2. Configure a monitoring agent in your cluster.

    1. Select your monitor from the [Monitoring](https://cloud.ibm.com/observe/monitoring){: external} page.
    2. Click **Monitoring sources**.
    3. Follow the instructions for installing a monitoring agent to your cluster.
    
    It might take a few minutes for the agent to finish installing.

3. In the [Monitoring console](https://cloud.ibm.com/observe/monitoring){: external}, click **Open Dashboard** for the instance that you provisioned.

4. In the Monitoring UI, click **Dashboards** > **Applications** > **NGINX Ingress**. The **NGINX Ingress** dashboard does not appear until data is available, which can take some time. The dashboard is visible only when the monitoring agent finds the `nginx_ingress_controller_requests` metric. These metrics are exposed when you send requests to the hosts that are defined in your Ingress resources.
    
    The default Ingress monitoring filters can produce a high volume of metrics, which can incur additional billing. Add the filter `exclude: nginx_ingress*bucket` to reduce costs by excluding some metrics while retaining the default metrics needed for the NGINX dashboard.
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For more information about IBM Cloud Monitoring, see [Getting started tutorial](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-getting-started&format=markdown).