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I don't think kubernetes is to blame for that. One of the facets of a really complex system is that there're way more moving parts that a generic system can handle or anticipate all possible failures. Sure, with time, kubernetes might get a mature native monitoring setup or expose a higher-level support for monitoring than what's currently available in terms of cAdvisor/heapster and health endpoints. So we built the simplest thing to achieve what we needed at certain point in hopes that the simpler it is, the less "monitoring the monitor itself will require".