Monitoring OpenShift - Metrics and Log Forwarding
Overview
Details
Application features:
- Overview of hosts, workloads/pods/containers/processes;
- Diagnostics capabilities (allocation and security review);
- ACL based on OpenShift projects/workloads/pods.
Logs:
- Container logs enriched with OpenShift metadata;
- Application logs;
- Host logs;
- Multi-line logs;
- Flexible field extraction;
- At least once logs delivery guarantee;
Metrics:
- Metrics are correlated with Logs;
- Host/Pods/Container/Process Metrics;
- Prometheus metrics, control plane metrics (etcd cluster, api servers, controllers, kubelets)
Events:
- OpenShift events;
Easy-to-deploy solution.
The application requires Collector built by Outcold Solutions, see https://www.outcoldsolutions.com/docs/monitoring-openshift/
The application is provided under Evaluation License.
Monitoring OpenShift is a solution for monitoring OpenShift clusters in Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud. We provide a collector, explicitly built for OpenShift, that forwards data from the clusters to Splunk software. We created dashboards that allow you to monitor your containerized applications and clusters in Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud.
Product Benefits
- Built for OpenShift. Outcold Solutions provides ready-to-use deployments, which helps you start monitoring your clusters in under 10 minutes.
- Diagnose performance of your applications using pre-built Splunk Certified Application.
- Leverage Splunk Users and Roles Control Access to set up project or cluster level ACL.
Use Cases
- Application Monitoring: see detailed metrics from containers and processes, including performance metrics, utilization metrics, and security insights. Use prebuilt Splunk dashboards for a comprehensive overview.
- Log Aggregation: aggregate logs from containers, applications, and servers in Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud. Use flexible mappings for filtering logs enriched with container metadata, correlate logs with metrics, and leverage Splunk capabilities for analyzing logs.
- Cluster Health monitoring: diagnose issues with the clusters by looking at historical events and monitoring allocations and cluster capacity.
Application features
- Overview of hosts, workloads/pods/containers/processes;
- Diagnostics capabilities (allocation and security review);
- ACL based on OpenShift progects/workloads/pods.
Logs
- Container logs enriched with OpenShift metadata;
- Host logs;
- Multi-line logs;
- Flexible field extraction;
- At least once logs delivery guarantee;
Metrics
- Metrics are correlated with Logs;
- Host/Pods/Container/Process Metrics;
- Prometheus metrics, control plane metrics (etcd cluster, api servers, controllers, kubelets)
Events
- OpenShift events;
Easy to deploy solution.
See Outcold Solutions profile on RedHat Technology Partners list.
Release Notes
Version 5.2.177
5.2 - 2018-10-15
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Requires collectorforopenshift 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
...
For details https://www.outcoldsolutions.com/docs/monitoring-openshift/release-history/
Version 5.1.175
- New: Network metrics (MB, Packets, Drops and Errors) for host and containers.
- New: Network socket tables (list of port that containers and hosts are listen 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 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-openshift/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-openshift/release-history/
Version 4.0.24
- New dashboard: Cluster/Audit
- New dashboard: Cluster/API Server
- New dashboard: Cluster/Controller
- New dashboard: Cluster/Kubelet
- New dashboard: Cluster/etcd
- Include image name, when list containers.
- Added syslog component to the list of host logs.
- Fixed: Include Daemon Set on Overview dashboard, list of projects.
- Fixed: Broken navigation from the list of deployments.
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-openshift/release-history/#30-2018-02-07
Upgrade instructions: https://www.outcoldsolutions.com/docs/monitoring-openshift/upgrade-2-to-3/
Requires collectorfor openshift 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-openshift/release-history/#30-2018-02-07
Upgrade instructions: https://www.outcoldsolutions.com/docs/monitoring-openshift/upgrade-2-to-3/
Requires collectorfor openshift 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 collectorforopenshift version 2.1.62.171219 or above
- Updated author and description
2.1 - 2017-12-20
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Monitoring Openshift 2.1
Requires collectorforopenshift version 2.1.62.171219 or above
- Initial release for Monitoring OpenShift
Version 2.1.18
Monitoring Openshift 2.1
Requires collectorforopenshift version 2.1.62.171219 or above
- Initial release for Monitoring OpenShift