# Prerequisites

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Connection with the Tentacle service associated with your Pandora FMS server is required. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Access credentials or an authentication token to the Kubernetes API of a user with enough permissions to query the API will be required. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Optionally, if you want to obtain the CPU and memory usage data of containers and nodes, install the "metrics-server" addon in the Kubernetes environment. </span>