title: Are Kube-state-metrics new or well formatted metrics?
body: <p>I am fairly new to Kubernetes and had a question concerning kube-state-metrics. When I simply monitor Kubernetes using Prometheus I obtain a set of metrics from the cAdvisor, the nodes (node exporter), the pods, etc. When I include the kube-state-metrics, I seem to obtain more "relevant" metrics. Do kube-state-metrics allow to scrape <strong>"new"</strong> information from Kubernetes or are they rather <strong>"formatted"</strong> metrics using the initial Kubernetes metrics (from the nodes, etc. I mentioned earlier). </p>