High Availability Design for a Container Cloud Platform Monitoring and Management Module
ChangAn Zhang · 2025
In container cloud computing environments, the stability and reliability of monitoring systems are critical for maintaining the overall health of the cloud platform. However, while many open-source monitoring components offer powerful functionalities, they often lack capabilities to monitor, respond to, and handle their own faults. This paper aims to design a highly available monitoring and management module to address this gap, ensuring that the monitoring system itself possesses fault tolerance and self-healing capabilities. The module is built on the widely used open-source monitoring software Prometheus. By integrating APIs for automated health checks and fault recovery, this study enhances its self-monitoring and self-repair capabilities. These APIs will periodically assess the health status of Prometheus itself and automatically trigger recovery procedures upon detecting issues, thereby reducing system downtime.