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+Heapster
+===========
+
+Heapster enables monitoring of Kubernetes Clusters using [cAdvisor](https://github.com/google/cadvisor). It currently works only on GCE.
+
+#####Run Heapster in a Kubernetes cluster with an Influxdb backend and [Grafana](http://grafana.org/docs/features/influxdb)
+
+**Step 1: Setup Kube cluster**
+
+Fork the Kubernetes repository and [turn up a Kubernetes cluster](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes-new#contents), if you haven't already. Make sure kubectl.sh is exported.
+
+**Step 2: Start a Pod with Influxdb, grafana and elasticsearch**
+
+```shell
+$ kubectl.sh create -f deploy/influx-grafana-pod.json
+```
+
+**Step 3: Start Influxdb service**
+
+```shell
+$ kubectl.sh create -f deploy/influx-grafana-service.json
+```
+
+**Step 4: Update firewall rules**
+
+Open up ports tcp:80,8083,8086,9200.
+```shell
+$ gcutil addfirewall --allowed=tcp:80,tcp:8083,tcp:8086,tcp:9200 --target_tags=kubernetes-minion heapster
+```
+
+**Step 5: Start Heapster Pod**
+
+```shell
+$ kubectl.sh create -f deploy/heapster-pod.json
+```
+
+Verify that all the pods and services are up and running:
+
+```shell
+$ kubectl.sh get pods
+```
+```shell
+$ kubectl.sh get services
+```
+
+To start monitoring the cluster using grafana, find out the the external IP of the minion where the 'influx-grafana' Pod is running from the output of `kubectl.sh get pods`, and visit `http://<minion-ip>:80`. 
+
+To access the Influxdb UI visit  `http://<minion-ip>:8083`.
+
+#####Hints
+* Grafana's default username and password is 'admin'. You can change that by modifying the grafana container [here](influx-grafana/deploy/grafana-influxdb-pod.json)
+* To enable memory and swap accounting on the minions follow the instructions [here](https://docs.docker.com/installation/ubuntulinux/#memory-and-swap-accounting)
diff --git a/monitoring/heapster-pod.json b/monitoring/heapster-pod.json
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+{
+  "id": "heapster",
+  "kind": "Pod",
+  "apiVersion": "v1beta1",
+  "desiredState": {
+    "manifest": {
+      "version": "v1beta1",
+      "id": "heapster",
+      "containers": [{
+        "name": "heapster",
+        "image": "kubernetes/heapster",
+	}]
+    }
+  },
+  "labels": {
+    "name": "heapster",
+  }
+}
diff --git a/monitoring/influx-grafana-pod.json b/monitoring/influx-grafana-pod.json
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+{
+  "id": "influx-grafana",
+  "kind": "Pod",
+  "apiVersion": "v1beta1",
+  "desiredState": {
+    "manifest": {
+      "version": "v1beta1",
+      "id": "influx-grafana",
+      "containers": [{
+        "name": "influxdb",
+        "image": "kubernetes/heapster_influxdb",
+        "ports": [
+		 {"containerPort": 8083, "hostPort": 8083},
+		 {"containerPort": 8086, "hostPort": 8086},
+		 {"containerPort": 8090, "hostPort": 8090},
+		 {"containerPort": 8099, "hostPort": 8099}]
+      }, {
+	"name": "grafana",
+        "image": "kubernetes/heapster_grafana",
+        "ports": [{"containerPort": 80, "hostPort": 80}],
+	"env": [{"name": HTTP_USER, "value": admin},
+	        {"name": HTTP_PASS, "value": admin}],
+      }, {
+	"name": "elasticsearch",
+        "image": "dockerfile/elasticsearch",
+        "ports": [{"containerPort": 9200, "hostPort": 9200},
+		  {"containerPort": 9300}],
+      }]
+    },
+  },
+  "labels": {
+    "name": "influxdb",
+  }
+}
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+{
+  "id": "influx-master",
+  "kind": "Service",
+  "apiVersion": "v1beta1",
+  "port": 8085,
+  "containerPort": 8086,
+  "provider": "kubernetes-default",
+  "component": "influxdb"
+  "selector": { "name": "influxdb" }
+}
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