Monitoring and alerting on pod status or restart with Google Container Engine (GKE) and Stackdriver

Question

Is there a way to monitor the pod status and restart count of pods running in a GKE cluster with Stackdriver?

While I can see CPU, memory and disk usage metrics for all

Answer 1

There is a built in metric now, so it's easy to dashboard and/or alert on it without setting up custom metrics

Metric: kubernetes.io/container/restart_count
Resource type: k8s_container