# Blog · 26 October 2025 · 1 min read
kata-pulse: an evening project that got a little out of hand
I only wanted to play with Rust in the evenings. I ended up writing monitoring for Kata Containers.
Last week I only wanted to play with Rust in the evenings. I ended up writing a whole monitoring tool for Kata Containers 😅
kata-pulse is a small daemon in Rust. It collects metrics from every Kata sandbox and serves them in a Prometheus-compatible form, in the cAdvisor format. It finds the containers by itself, pulls the data and adds metadata from Kubernetes.
So it works with the standard kube-prometheus-stack monitoring and its dashboards without changes.
Inside: Tokio, Axum, and caching on Arc/RwLock. It installs through Helm in one line.
In short, it is kata-monitor, only without Go.