| `KUBE_CA_PEM` | (**deprecated**) Only if a custom CA bundle was specified. Raw PEM data. |
| `KUBECONFIG` | Path to a file containing `kubeconfig` for this deployment. CA bundle would be embedded if specified. |
## Monitoring your Kubernetes cluster
> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/merge_requests/4701) in [GitLab Ultimate][ee] 10.6.
When [Prometheus is deployed](#installing-applications), GitLab will automatically monitor the cluster's health. At the top of the cluster settings page, CPU and Memory utilization is displayed, along with the total amount available. If the cluster runs out of memory, pods will become to be shutdown or fail to start.