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Monitoring, Logging and Tracing Installation

Knative Serving offers two different monitoring setups: Elasticsearch, Kibana, Prometheus and Grafana or Stackdriver, Prometheus and Grafana You can install only one of these two setups and side-by-side installation of these two are not supported.

Before you begin

The following instructions assume that you cloned the Knative Serving repository. To clone the repository, run the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/knative/serving knative-serving
cd knative-serving
git checkout v0.2.1

Elasticsearch, Kibana, Prometheus & Grafana Setup

If you installed the full Knative release, the monitoring component is already installed and you can skip down to the Create Elasticsearch Indices section.

To configure and setup monitoring:

  1. Choose a container image that meets the Fluentd image requirements. For example, you can use the public image k8s.gcr.io/fluentd-elasticsearch:v2.0.4. Or you can create a custom one and upload the image to a container registry which your cluster has read access to.

  2. Follow the instructions in "Setting up a logging plugin" to configure the Elasticsearch components settings.

  3. Install Knative monitoring components by running the following command from the root directory of knative/serving repository:

    kubectl apply --recursive --filename config/monitoring/100-common \
       --filename config/monitoring/150-elasticsearch \
       --filename third_party/config/monitoring/common \
       --filename third_party/config/monitoring/elasticsearch \
       --filename config/monitoring/200-common \
       --filename config/monitoring/200-common/100-istio.yaml

    The installation is complete when logging & monitoring components are all reported Running or Completed:

    kubectl get pods --namespace monitoring --watch
    NAME                                  READY     STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
    elasticsearch-logging-0               1/1       Running   0          2d
    elasticsearch-logging-1               1/1       Running   0          2d
    fluentd-ds-5kc85                      1/1       Running   0          2d
    fluentd-ds-vhrcq                      1/1       Running   0          2d
    fluentd-ds-xghk9                      1/1       Running   0          2d
    grafana-798cf569ff-v4q74              1/1       Running   0          2d
    kibana-logging-7d474fbb45-6qb8x       1/1       Running   0          2d
    kube-state-metrics-75bd4f5b8b-8t2h2   4/4       Running   0          2d
    node-exporter-cr6bh                   2/2       Running   0          2d
    node-exporter-mf6k7                   2/2       Running   0          2d
    node-exporter-rhzr7                   2/2       Running   0          2d
    prometheus-system-0                   1/1       Running   0          2d
    prometheus-system-1                   1/1       Running   0          2d
    

CTRL+C to exit watch.

Create Elasticsearch Indices

To visualize logs with Kibana, you need to set which Elasticsearch indices to explore. We will create two indices in Elasticsearch using Logstash for application logs and Zipkin for request traces.

  • To open the Kibana UI (the visualization tool for Elasticsearch), you must start a local proxy by running the following command:

    kubectl proxy

    This command starts a local proxy of Kibana on port 8001. For security reasons, the Kibana UI is exposed only within the cluster.

  • Navigate to the Kibana UI. It might take a couple of minutes for the proxy to work.

  • Within the "Configure an index pattern" page, enter logstash-* to Index pattern and select @timestamp from Time Filter field name and click on Create button.

Create logstash-* index

  • To create the second index, select Create Index Pattern button on top left of the page. Enter zipkin* to Index pattern and select timestamp_millis from Time Filter field name and click on Create button.

Stackdriver, Prometheus & Grafana Setup

You must configure and build your own Fluentd image if either of the following are true:

  • Your Knative Serving component is not hosted on a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) based cluster.
  • You want to send logs to another GCP project.

To configure and setup monitoring:

  1. Choose a container image that meets the Fluentd image requirements. For example, you can use a public image. Or you can create a custom one and upload the image to a container registry which your cluster has read access to.

  2. Follow the instructions in "Setting up a logging plugin" to configure the stackdriver components settings.

  3. Install Knative monitoring components by running the following command from the root directory of knative/serving repository:

    kubectl apply --recursive --filename config/monitoring/100-common \
      --filename config/monitoring/150-stackdriver \
      --filename third_party/config/monitoring/common \
      --filename config/monitoring/200-common \
      --filename config/monitoring/200-common/100-istio.yaml

    The installation is complete when logging & monitoring components are all reported Running or Completed:

    kubectl get pods --namespace monitoring --watch
    NAME                                  READY     STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
    fluentd-ds-5kc85                      1/1       Running   0          2d
    fluentd-ds-vhrcq                      1/1       Running   0          2d
    fluentd-ds-xghk9                      1/1       Running   0          2d
    grafana-798cf569ff-v4q74              1/1       Running   0          2d
    kube-state-metrics-75bd4f5b8b-8t2h2   4/4       Running   0          2d
    node-exporter-cr6bh                   2/2       Running   0          2d
    node-exporter-mf6k7                   2/2       Running   0          2d
    node-exporter-rhzr7                   2/2       Running   0          2d
    prometheus-system-0                   1/1       Running   0          2d
    prometheus-system-1                   1/1       Running   0          2d
    

CTRL+C to exit watch.

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