Monitoring Kubernetes - Metrics and Log Forwarding
Overview
Details
Use cases
- Application Monitoring
- Log Aggregation
- Cluster Health Monitoring
- Security and Audit
- Reduce complexity and improve productivity
With 10 minutes setup, you will get a monitoring solution, that includes log aggregation, performance and system metrics, metrics from the control plane and application metrics, a dashboard for reviewing network activity, and alerts to notify you about cluster or application performance issues.
An application requires Collectord built by Outcold Solutions, see https://www.outcoldsolutions.com/docs/monitoring-kubernetes/
Overview
Outcold Solutions provide solutions for monitoring Kubernetes, OpenShift and Docker clusters in Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud. We offer Splunk applications, which give you insights across all containers environments. We are helping businesses to reduce complexity related to logging and monitoring by providing easy-to-use and deploy solutions for Linux and Windows containers. We deliver applications to help developers monitor their applications and operators to keep their clusters healthy. With the power of Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud, we offer a unique solution to help you keep all the metrics and logs in one place, allowing you to quickly address complex questions on container performance and cluster health.
Description
We provide solutions for monitoring Kubernetes, OpenShift and Docker clusters in Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud. With 10 minutes setup, you will get a monitoring solution, that includes log aggregation, performance and system metrics, metrics from the control plane and application metrics, a dashboard for reviewing network activity, and alerts to notify you about cluster or application performance issues.
All our solutions are powered by the Collectord, a container-native software built by Outcold Solutions that provides capabilities for discovering, transforming and forwarding logs, collecting system metrics, collecting metrics from the control plane of the orchestration frameworks and forwarding network activity. Collectord provides flexible and powerful tools for transforming logs. With our software you can hide sensitive information from the loglines before forwarding them. With Collectord you can reduce the licensing costs associated with logging aggregation by choosing which data you want to forward from the log streams. Collectord forwards container logs, host logs and can discover logs written by the containerized applications.
Use cases
Application Monitoring
See detailed metrics from containers and processes, including performance metrics, utilization metrics and security insights. Forward application-specific metrics, exported in Prometheus format. Use prebuilt Splunk dashboards for a comprehensive overview.
Log Aggregation
Aggregate logs from containers, applications, and servers. Use flexible mappings to filter logs enriched with container metadata, correlate logs with metrics, and leverage Splunk capabilities for analyzing logs. Use Collectord to transform logs before they reach Splunk, remove sensitive information, remove PII data to help keep your logs GDPR compliant. With Collectord you can reduce licensing and storage costs by choosing which loglines you want to forward.
Cluster Health Monitoring
Diagnose cluster issues by looking at historical events, monitoring allocations, and regulating cluster capacity. Leverage pre-built alerts for monitoring the health of the clusters out of the box.
Security and Audit
Define access to the data by clusters, namespaces and even pods or containers. Review network activities, happening inside your cluster, and outside connections. Verify containers running with elevated security permissions. Use audit logs for monitoring changes in deployments.
Reduce complexity and improve productivity
Use one tool to collect and forward logs and metrics required by developers for reviewing performance and health of their applications. With the annotations developers can define how they want to see the data in log aggregation tool, specify multiline log patterns, removing terminal escape codes, override types, sources and indexes.
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Release Notes
Version 5.4.200
5.4 - 2018-12-17
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Requires collectorforopenshift version 5.4 or above (see https://www.outcoldsolutions.com for latest configuration)
- Improved: etcd metrics representation for bucket values.
- Fixed: API latency alert - exclude imagestreamimports.
- Compatibility update for collectord 5.4.
Collectord updates:
- New: Attach EC2 metadata fields
- New: Basic Auth for Proxy (License Server and Splunk)
- Fixed: Collectord verifies reports CRI-O as unsupported runtime.
- Fixed: Rare crash on Prometheus metrics definition.
- Fixed: Better handling of acknowledgment database corruption.
- Fixed: When handling incorrect indexes, collectord can send index with an empty string, that Splunk recognize as an incorrect index
Version 5.3.190
5.3 - 2018-11-19
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Requires collectorforkubernetes version 5.3 or above (see https://www.outcoldsolutions.com for latest configuration)
- Fixed: Improved Workload dashboard. Allows to filter by namespace, see all Pods in a specific namespace, filter by workload label.
- New: Alert for showing when Collectord reports errors in Processing pipelines (as an example if it failed to extract fields).
- New: Alert for showing when Collectord reports warnings.
- Fixed: Add node labels filter to Storage Dashboard and Control Plane Dashboards.
- New: Alert if lag in the indexing of the data.
- New: Splunk Usage (License usage, number of events) report under Setup.
- Fixed: adjusted high amount of errors to Kubernetes API dashboard to make it less verbose.
https://www.outcoldsolutions.com/docs/monitoring-kubernetes/release-history/
Version 5.2.181
5.2.180 - 2018-10-29
- Fixed: misprint in the search for showing alerts
5.2.180 - 2018-10-28
- Fixed: lookup with alerts causing very often replication activities on SHC
5.2.179 - 2018-10-17
- Fixed: changed search time for few alerts that cause false positives with indexing lag on large installations
5.2 - 2018-10-15
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Requires collectorforkubernetes version 5.2 or above (see https://www.outcoldsolutions.com for latest configuration)
- New: Review/Storage dashboard based on storage metrics and PVC metrics.
- New: predefined alerts to help you monitor the health of the clusters and performance of the applications.
- Fixed: Performance improvements
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For details https://www.outcoldsolutions.com/docs/monitoring-kubernetes/release-history/
Version 5.2.180
5.2.180 - 2018-10-28
- Fixed: lookup with alerts causing very often replication activities on SHC
5.2.179 - 2018-10-17
- Fixed: changed search time for few alerts that cause false positives with indexing lag on large installations
5.2 - 2018-10-15
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Requires collectorforkubernetes version 5.2 or above (see https://www.outcoldsolutions.com for latest configuration)
- New: Review/Storage dashboard based on storage metrics and PVC metrics.
- New: predefined alerts to help you monitor the health of the clusters and performance of the applications.
- Fixed: Performance improvements
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For details https://www.outcoldsolutions.com/docs/monitoring-kubernetes/release-history/
Version 5.2.179
5.2.179 - 2018-10-17
- Fixed: changed search time for few alerts that cause false positives with indexing lag on large installations
5.2 - 2018-10-15
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Requires collectorforkubernetes version 5.2 or above (see https://www.outcoldsolutions.com for latest configuration)
- New: Review/Storage dashboard based on storage metrics and PVC metrics.
- New: predefined alerts to help you monitor the health of the clusters and performance of the applications.
- Fixed: Performance improvements
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For details https://www.outcoldsolutions.com/docs/monitoring-kubernetes/release-history/
Version 5.2.176
5.2 - 2018-10-15
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Requires collectorforkubernetes version 5.2 or above (see https://www.outcoldsolutions.com for latest configuration)
- New: Review/Storage dashboard based on storage metrics and PVC metrics.
- New: predefined alerts to help you monitor the health of the clusters and performance of the applications.
- Fixed: Performance improvements
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For details https://www.outcoldsolutions.com/docs/monitoring-kubernetes/release-history/
Version 5.1.175
- New: Network metrics (MB, Packets, Drops, and Errors) for host and containers.
- New: Network socket tables (list of the port that containers and hosts are listening on, connections to external resources).
- New: Network review dashboard to see the list of connection to public services and in private network.
- Improvement: Replace python-based lookup with a macro written with eval.
- Improvement: Visual improvement for showing when the object was Last Seen (highlighting and showing minutes ago).
... and more
https://www.outcoldsolutions.com/docs/monitoring-kubernetes/release-history/
Version 5.0.174
Highlights:
- Application logs
- Annotations for fields extraction, hiding sensitive information, time extraction, redirecting to /dev/null, stripping terminal colors and more
For more details:
https://www.outcoldsolutions.com/docs/monitoring-kubernetes/release-history/
Version 4.0.24
- New dashboard: Cluster/Audit
- New dashboard: Cluster/Kubernetes API Server
- New dashboard: Cluster/Kubelet
- New dashboard: Cluster/etcd
- New dashboard: Cluster/Scheduler
- New dashboard: Cluster/Controller Manager.
- Include image name, when list containers.
- Added syslog component to the list of host logs.
- Fixed: Include Daemon Set on Overview dashboard, list of namespaces.
Version 3.0.23
3.0.23 - bug fixes release
3.0.22
New overview, security and capacity dashboards. Workload aggregation dashboard.
A lot of of bug fixes and performance improvements.
Relese Notes: https://www.outcoldsolutions.com/docs/monitoring-kubernetes/release-history/#30-2018-02-07
Upgrade instructions: https://www.outcoldsolutions.com/docs/monitoring-kubernetes/upgrade-2-to-3/
Requires collectorforkubernetes version 3.0 or above (see https://www.outcoldsolutions.com for latest configuration)
Version 3.0.22
New overview, security and capacity dashboards. Workload aggregation dashboard.
A lot of of bug fixes and performance improvements.
Relese Notes: https://www.outcoldsolutions.com/docs/monitoring-kubernetes/release-history/#30-2018-02-07
Upgrade instructions: https://www.outcoldsolutions.com/docs/monitoring-kubernetes/upgrade-2-to-3/
Requires collectorforkubernetes version 3.0 or above (see https://www.outcoldsolutions.com for latest configuration)
Version 2.1.21
2.1.21 - 2018-01-02
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Requires collectorforkubernetes version 2.1.59.171209 or above
- Updated author and description
2.1.20 - 2017-12-09
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- Fixed link to setup / installation instructions.
2.1.18 - 2017-12-09
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- Implemented collectors dashboard to track number of collectors, their versions
and used licenses.
- Fallback to the process IO statistics when blkio is not available.
- Fix IO statistic graphs, showed average, when sum should be used.
- Fields extraction support for nginx ingress 0.9 and above.
- [collector] Improved resistance for storage failures.
- [collector] License checks reporting.
- [collector] Better support for openshift environment (default configuration).
Version 2.1.20
2.1.20 - 2017-12-09
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Requires collectorforkubernetes version 2.1.59.171209 or above
- Fixed link to setup / installation instructions.
2.1.18 - 2017-12-09
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Requires collectorforkubernetes version 2.1.59.171209 or above
- Implemented collectors dashboard to track number of collectors, their versions
and used licenses.
- Fallback to the process IO statistics when blkio is not available.
- Fix IO statistic graphs, showed average, when sum should be used.
- Fields extraction support for nginx ingress 0.9 and above.
- [collector] Improved resistance for storage failures.
- [collector] License checks reporting.
- [collector] Better support for openshift environment (default configuration).
Version 2.0.17
2.0 - 2017-10-22
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Requires collectorforkubernetes version 2.0.37.171023 or above
- Better labels support in Dashboards.
Collector has a breaking feature, replacing format for labels from
`kubernetes_node_labels_LABEL1=VALUE1` to `kubernetes_node_labels=[LABEL1=VALUE1,LABEL2=VALUE2]`.
- Process level metrics.
- Uptime for hosts and processes.
- Fields extraction for kubernetes controller manager and scheduler.
- Fields extraction and support in dashboards for main kubernetes components (setup
host logs collection with collector).
- New top-like dashboards allow to monitor Hosts/Pods/Containers/Processes in realtime.
- Rewritten Kubernetes Objects Dashboards with support of Events and Labels.
- Improved dashboards navigation.
- Support for host logs.
- Other bugs and improvements based on user feedback.
Version 1.0.3
Updated links to official documentation for installation instructions.
Version 1.0.2
Fix labels on Kubernetes Dashboards (Most of the filters has incorrect label Daemon Sets)
Version 1.0.1
Monitoring Kubernetes