Monitoring

Overview

Monitoring in Bigbang is deployed using the upstream chart kube-prometheus-stack

Installs the kube-prometheus stack, a collection of Kubernetes manifests, Grafana dashboards, and Prometheus rules combined with documentation and scripts to provide easy to operate end-to-end Kubernetes cluster monitoring with Prometheus using the Prometheus Operator.

graph LR
 subgraph "Monitoring"
   alertmanagerpods("AlertManager Pod(s)") --> monitoringpods("Monitoring Pod(s)")
   alertmanagerservice{{AlertManager Service}} --> alertmanagerpods("AlertManager Pod(s)")
   alertmanagersvcmonitor("Service Monitor") --"Metrics Port"--> alertmanagerservice
   Prometheus --> alertmanagersvcmonitor("Service Monitor")
   grafanapods("Grafana Pod(s)") --> monitoringpods("Monitoring Pod(s)")
   grafanaservice{{Grafana Service}} --> grafanapods("Grafana Pod(s)")
   grafanasvcmonitor("Service Monitor") --"Metrics Port"--> grafanaservice
   Prometheus --> grafanasvcmonitor("Service Monitor")
   nodeexporterpods("Node-Exporter Pod(s)") --> monitoringpods("Monitoring Pod(s)")
   nodeexporterservice{{Node-Exporter Service}} -->  nodeexporterpods("Node-Exporter Pod(s)")
   nodeexportersvcmonitor("Service Monitor") --"Metrics Port"-->  nodeexporterservice
   Prometheus --> nodeexportersvcmonitor("Service Monitor")
   kubestatemetricspods("Kube-State-Metrics Pod(s)") --> monitoringpods("Monitoring Pod(s)")
   kubestatemetricsservice{{Kube-State-Metrics Service}} -->  kubestatemetricspods("Kube-State-Metrics Pod(s)")
   kubestatemetricssvcmonitor("Service Monitor") --"Metrics Port"-->  kubestatemetricsservice
   Prometheus --> kubestatemetricssvcmonitor("Service Monitor")
   Prometheus --> prometheussvcmonitor("Service Monitor")
   prometheussvcmonitor("Service Monitor") --"Metrics Port"--> prmetheussservice{{Prometheus Service}}
   prmetheussservice{{Prometheus Service}} --> Prometheus
   PromOperator ---|Manages/Creates| Prometheus
   VirtualServices --"App Port"--> alertmanagerservice
   VirtualServices --"App Port"--> grafanaservice
   VirtualServices --"App Port"--> Prometheus
 end
 subgraph "Logging"
   monitoringpods("Monitoring Pod(s)") ---|Logs|fluent(Fluentbit) --> logging-ek-es-http
   logging-ek-es-http{{Elastic Service<br />logging-ek-es-http}} --> elastic[(Elastic Storage)]
 end
 subgraph "Istio-system (Ingress)"
   ig(Ingress Gateway, Gateway) --> VirtualServices
 end

Big Bang Touchpoints

UI

Alertmanager, Prometheus and Grafana within the monitoring Package have UIs that are accessible and configurable. By default they are externally available behind an Istio installation.

Storage

Alertmanager

Persistent storage values for Alert Manager can be set/modified in the Big Bang chart:

monitoring:
  values:
    alertmanager:
      alertmanagerSpec:
        storage:
          volumeClaimTemplate:
            spec:
                storageClassName:
                accessModes: ["ReadWriteOnce"]
                resources:
                  requests:
                    storage: 50Gi
              selector: {}

Prometheus-Operator

Persistent storage values for Prometheus-Operator can be set/modified in the Big Bang chart:

monitoring:
  values:
    prometheus:
      prometheusSpec:
        storageSpec:
          volumeClaimTemplate:
            spec:
                storageClassName:
                accessModes: ["ReadWriteOnce"]
                resources:
                  requests:
                    storage: 50Gi
              selector: {}

Grafana

Persistent storage values for Grafana can be set/modified in the Big Bang chart:

monitoring:
  values:
    grafana:
      persistence:
        type: pvc
        enabled: false
        # storageClassName: default
        accessModes:
          - ReadWriteOnce
        size: 10Gi
        # annotations: {}
        finalizers:
          - kubernetes.io/pvc-protection
        # selectorLabels: {}
        # subPath: ""
        # existingClaim:

Logging

Within the kube-prometheus-stack chart, you can customize both the LogFormat and LogLevel for the following components: Note: within Big Bang, logs are captured by fluentbit and shipped to elastic by default.

Prometheus-Operator

LogFormat and LogLevel can be set for Prometheus-Operator via the following values in the Big Bang chart:

monitoring:
  values:
    prometheusOperator:
      logFormat: logfmt
      logLevel: info

Prometheus

LogFormat and LogLevel can be set for Prometheus via the following values in the Big Bang chart:

monitoring:
  values:
    prometheus:
      prometheusSpec:
        logFormat: logfmt
        logLevel: info

Alertmanager

LogFormat and LogLevel can be set for Alertmanager via the following values in the Big Bang chart:

monitoring:
  values:
    alertmanager:
      alertmanagerSpec:
        logFormat: logfmt
        logLevel: info

Grafana

LogLevel can be set for Grafana via the following values in the Big Bang chart:

monitoring:
  values:
    grafana:
      grafana.ini:
        log:
          mode: console

Single Sign on (SSO)

SSO can be configured for monitoring through Authservice, more info is included in the following documentation: Monitoring SSO Integration

Monitoring

Monitoring deployment has serviceMonitors enabled for

• core-dns
• kube-api-server
• kube-controller-manager
• kube-dns
• kube-etcd
• kube-proxy
• kube-scheduler
• kube-state-metrics
• kubelet
• node-exporter
• alert manager
• grafana
• prometheus
• prometheus-operator
• node-exporter

Note: Other packages are responsible for deploying Service Monitors for their components as needed.

HA

Support for Prometheus and other apps within the package are being researched and section will be updated:

Alertmanager

High Availability can be accomplished by increasing the number of replicas for the deployment of Alertmanager;

monitoring:
  values:
    alertmanager:
      alertmanagerSpec:
        replicas: 3

Grafana

High Availability can be accomplished by increasing the number of replicas for the deployment of Grafana and configuring an external database connection (postgresql/mysql) so users and dashboard information can be centrally located for the replicas to have a source of truth. See Grafana’s upstream documentation

monitoring:
  values:
    grafana:
      replicas: 3
      grafana.ini:
        ...
    database:
      type: [postgres|mysql]
      host: external-db:5432
      name: grafana
      user: ""
      password: ""

Dependency Packages

When deploying BigBang, monitoring depends on gatekeeper/kyverno and istio being installed prior.

  {{- if or .Values.gatekeeper.enabled .Values.istio.enabled .Values.kyvernopolicies.enabled }}
  dependsOn:
  {{- if .Values.istio.enabled }}
    - name: istio
      namespace: {{ .Release.Namespace }}
  {{- end }}
  {{- if .Values.gatekeeper.enabled }}
    - name: gatekeeper
      namespace: {{ .Release.Namespace }}
  {{- end }}
  {{- if .Values.kyvernopolicies.enabled }}
    - name: kyvernopolicies
      namespace: {{ .Release.Namespace }}
  {{- end }}
  {{- end }}

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Last update: 2022-11-04 by Ryan Garcia