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Prometheus Metrics Integration Guide

Introduction

The Pulumi Kubernetes Operator emits Prometheus compatible metrics. This can be great for users to get operational insights into stacks managed by the operator.

We provide an overview of the metrics emitted by the operator and the simplest steps necessary to emit metrics to Prometheus from the Operator.

Prometheus Integration

If key parts of the Prometheus metrics stack are installed on the Kubernetes cluster, then as part of the initial launch Pulumi Kubernetes Operator will automatically:

  1. Create a service pulumi-kubernetes-operator-metrics which provides detailed operator metrics through port 8383
  2. Install a ServiceMonitor resource named pulumi-kubernetes-operator-metrics resource which is used to discover the endpoints for metric collection

Once the above are created, Prometheus will update its target scraping rules to include the Operator pod.

Metrics Overview

The current implementation explicitly emits the following metrics:

  1. stacks_active - a gauge time series that reports the number of currently registered stacks managed by the system
  2. stacks_failing - a set of gauge time series, labelled by namespace, that gives the number of stacks currently failing (stack.status.lastUpdate.state is failed)

In addition, we find tracking the following metrics emitted by the controller-runtime would be useful to track:

  1. controller_runtime_active_workers{controller="stack-controller"} - gauge that tracks the number of concurrent stacks being processed
  2. controller_runtime_max_concurrent_reconciles{controller="stack-controller"} - gauge that tracks the max concurrent stack reconciles configured. This defaults to 10 but can be controlled through MAX_CONCURRENT_RECONCILES environment variable passed to the Operator container.
  3. controller_runtime_reconcile_total{controller="stack-controller",result="error"} - counter for errored reconciles
  4. controller_runtime_reconcile_total{controller="stack-controller",result="requeue"} - counter for requeued reconciles

The next section walks through setting up Kube-Prometheus-Stack on an existing Kubernetes cluster and configuring metrics for the operator.

Integration with Kube-Prometheus-Stack Installed Using Helm

We assume at this point you already have a Kubernetes cluster launched and have set up kubeconfig to point to this cluster. If this is not true, please follow the steps here to launch a Kubernetes cluster of your liking.

Setup Kube-Prometheus-Stack metrics stack

Kube-Prometheus-Stack is an all-in-one Prometheus-based metric solution in a Helm Chart. It packages Kube-Prometheus which consists of Prometheus Operator, Prometheus, Grafana, Alert Manager, node-exporters, etc. Installing the kube-prometheus-stack Helm Chart is the simplest means to have all the components of the metrics stack installed on your cluster.

Use the following Pulumi Program to install a Kube-Prometheus-Stack Helm Release on your cluster

Important - please note the override of the serviceMonitorSelectorNilUsesHelmValues value. Not setting this will potentially prevent the Operator metrics services from being scraped.

import * as pulumi from "@pulumi/pulumi";
import * as kubernetes from "@pulumi/kubernetes";

const promOperator = new kubernetes.helm.v3.Release("prom-operator", {
    name: "kube-prometheus-stack",
    chart: "kube-prometheus-stack",
    repositoryOpts: {
        repo: "https://prometheus-community.github.io/helm-charts",
    },
    values: {
        prometheus: {
            prometheusSpec: {
                serviceMonitorSelectorNilUsesHelmValues: false,
            },
        },
    },
});

Next install the Pulumi Kubernetes Operator. See the detailed installation instructions here for details.

Once installed, you can perform the following steps to determine if Prometheus is scraping the metrics endpoint on port 8383:

  1. Setup a port-forward against the Prometheus service:

    kubectl port-forward service/kube-prometheus-stack-prometheus 9090:9090

  2. Visit http://localhost:9090/targets and validate that pulumi-kubernetes-operator-metrics is known and being scraped.

Sample Grafana Dashboard

Sample Grafana Dashboard

kube-prometheus-stack also installs Grafana which can be used to visualize the metrics collected. This section walks through setting up a simple dashboard to track some key Operator metrics.

  1. Port forward the Grafana service for local access:

    kubectl port-forward service/kube-prometheus-stack-grafana 9000:80

  2. Extract the default admin username and password from the secret created by the Helm chart. Note the secret values will be base64 encoded:

    kubectl get secret kube-prometheus-stack-grafana -o yaml | grep admin

  3. Copy the sample dashboard JSON specification below

Click to expand sample dashboard 
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Now, you can create a new dashboard based on the above.