Answer
cadvisor provides CPU, memory, network, and filesystem stats for autoscaling and monitoring.
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cAdvisor (Container Advisor) is embedded in kubelet and collects container-level resource metrics — CPU, memory, network, filesystem per container. It exposes these metrics that the metrics-server scrapes. Kubernetes uses cAdvisor data for HPA scaling decisions, resource limit enforcement visibility, and kubectl top pod output.
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