Ping monitoring between Kubernetes nodes

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When diagnosing issues in the Kubernetes cluster, we often notice flickering of one of the cluster nodes, which usually happens in a random and strange manner. That’s why we have been experiencing a need in a tool that can test the reachability of one node from another and present results in the form of Prometheus metrics. Having that, we would also want to create graphs in Grafana and quickly locate the failed node (and — if necessary — to reschedule all pods from it and conduct the required maintenance).

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