The misconception "Fleet monitoring = Kubernetes monitoring." It is not. Kubernetes is a scheduling/orchestration control plane that some fleets happen to use. Most Linux fleets — edge, bare metal, on-prem, air gaps, mixed distros — are just hosts that need watching. You should not have to stand up a cluster to watch them. The right mental model: an agent per host (one static binary), a shared event sink , and one dashboard keyed to a per-host identity that survives re-imaging....