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You can monitor Kubernetes clusters and pods metrics externally using the integration with <a href="https://docs.wavefront.com">Wavefront by VMware</a>.<p class="note"><strong>Note</strong>: Before you configure Wavefront integration, you must have an active Wavefront account and access to a Wavefront instance. You provide your Wavefront access token during configuration and enabling errands. For additional information, see <a href="https://docs.wavefront.com/integrations_pks.html">Pivotal Container Service Integration Details</a> in the Wavefront documentation.</p>

By default, monitoring is disabled. To enable and configure Wavefront monitoring, do the following:

1. Select **Monitoring**.
1. On the **Monitoring** pane, under **Wavefront Integration**, select **Yes**.
  ![Monitoring pane configuration](images/monitoring-wavefront-config.png)
1. Under **Wavefront URL**, enter the URL of your Wavefront subscription. For example, `https://try.wavefront.com/api`.
1. Under **Wavefront Access Token**, enter the API token for your Wavefront subscription.
1. To configure Wavefront to send alerts by email, enter email addresses or Wavefront Target IDs separated by commas under **Wavefront Alert Recipient**. For example, `user@example.com,Wavefront_TargetID`. To create alerts, you must enable errands.
1. Select **Errands**.
1. On the **Errands** pane, enable **Create pre-defined Wavefront alerts errand**.
1. Enable **Delete pre-defined Wavefront alerts errand**.
  ![Errand pane configuration](images/monitoring-wavefront-errands.png)
1. Click **Save**. Your settings apply to any clusters created after you have saved these configuration settings and clicked **Apply Changes**.
<p class="note"><strong>Note</strong>: The PKS tile does not validate your Wavefront configuration settings. To verify your setup, look for cluster and pod metrics in Wavefront.</p>