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Configuring the Cluster Observability Operator to monitor a service

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You can monitor metrics for a service by configuring monitoring stacks managed by the Cluster Observability Operator (COO).

To test monitoring a service, follow these steps:

  • Deploy a sample service that defines a service endpoint.

  • Create a ServiceMonitor object that specifies how the service is to be monitored by the COO.

  • Create a MonitoringStack object to discover the ServiceMonitor object.

Deploying a sample service for Cluster Observability Operator

This configuration deploys a sample service named prometheus-coo-example-app in the user-defined ns1-coo project. The service exposes the custom version metric.

Prerequisites

  • You have access to the cluster as a user with the cluster-admin cluster role or as a user with administrative permissions for the namespace.

Procedure

  1. Create a YAML file named prometheus-coo-example-app.yaml that contains the following configuration details for a namespace, deployment, and service:

    apiVersion: v1
kind: Namespace
metadata:
  name: ns1-coo
---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  labels:
    app: prometheus-coo-example-app
  name: prometheus-coo-example-app
  namespace: ns1-coo
spec:
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: prometheus-coo-example-app
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: prometheus-coo-example-app
    spec:
      containers:
      - image: ghcr.io/rhobs/prometheus-example-app:0.4.2
        imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
        name: prometheus-coo-example-app
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  labels:
    app: prometheus-coo-example-app
  name: prometheus-coo-example-app
  namespace: ns1-coo
spec:
  ports:
  - port: 8080
    protocol: TCP
    targetPort: 8080
    name: web
  selector:
    app: prometheus-coo-example-app
  type: ClusterIP

  2. Save the file.

  3. Apply the configuration to the cluster by running the following command:

    $ oc apply -f prometheus-coo-example-app.yaml

  4. Verify that the pod is running by running the following command and observing the output:

    $ oc -n ns1-coo get pod
    Example output
    NAME                                      READY     STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
prometheus-coo-example-app-0927545cb7-anskj   1/1       Running   0          81m

Specifying how a service is monitored by Cluster Observability Operator

To use the metrics exposed by the sample service you created in the "Deploying a sample service for Cluster Observability Operator" section, you must configure monitoring components to scrape metrics from the /metrics endpoint.

You can create this configuration by using a ServiceMonitor object that specifies how the service is to be monitored, or a PodMonitor object that specifies how a pod is to be monitored. The ServiceMonitor object requires a Service object. The PodMonitor object does not, which enables the MonitoringStack object to scrape metrics directly from the metrics endpoint exposed by a pod.

This procedure shows how to create a ServiceMonitor object for a sample service named prometheus-coo-example-app in the ns1-coo namespace.

Prerequisites

  • You have access to the cluster as a user with the cluster-admin cluster role or as a user with administrative permissions for the namespace.

  • You have installed the Cluster Observability Operator.

  • You have deployed the prometheus-coo-example-app sample service in the ns1-coo namespace.

    The prometheus-coo-example-app sample service does not support TLS authentication.
Procedure

  1. Create a YAML file named example-coo-app-service-monitor.yaml that contains the following ServiceMonitor object configuration details:

    apiVersion: monitoring.rhobs/v1
kind: ServiceMonitor
metadata:
  labels:
    k8s-app: prometheus-coo-example-monitor
  name: prometheus-coo-example-monitor
  namespace: ns1-coo
spec:
  endpoints:
  - interval: 30s
    port: web
    scheme: http
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: prometheus-coo-example-app

    This configuration defines a ServiceMonitor object that the MonitoringStack object will reference to scrape the metrics data exposed by the prometheus-coo-example-app sample service.

  2. Apply the configuration to the cluster by running the following command:

    $ oc apply -f example-coo-app-service-monitor.yaml

  3. Verify that the ServiceMonitor resource is created by running the following command and observing the output:

    $ oc -n ns1-coo get servicemonitors.monitoring.rhobs
    Example output
    NAME                         AGE
prometheus-coo-example-monitor   81m

Creating a MonitoringStack object for the Cluster Observability Operator

To scrape the metrics data exposed by the target prometheus-coo-example-app service, create a MonitoringStack object that references the ServiceMonitor object you created in the "Specifying how a service is monitored for Cluster Observability Operator" section. This MonitoringStack object can then discover the service and scrape the exposed metrics data from it.

Prerequisites

  • You have access to the cluster as a user with the cluster-admin cluster role or as a user with administrative permissions for the namespace.

  • You have installed the Cluster Observability Operator.

  • You have deployed the prometheus-coo-example-app sample service in the ns1-coo namespace.

  • You have created a ServiceMonitor object named prometheus-coo-example-monitor in the ns1-coo namespace.

Procedure

  1. Create a YAML file for the MonitoringStack object configuration. For this example, name the file example-coo-monitoring-stack.yaml.

  2. Add the following MonitoringStack object configuration details:

    Example MonitoringStack object
    apiVersion: monitoring.rhobs/v1alpha1
kind: MonitoringStack
metadata:
  name: example-coo-monitoring-stack
  namespace: ns1-coo
spec:
  logLevel: debug
  retention: 1d
  resourceSelector:
    matchLabels:
      k8s-app: prometheus-coo-example-monitor

  3. Apply the MonitoringStack object by running the following command:

    $ oc apply -f example-coo-monitoring-stack.yaml

  4. Verify that the MonitoringStack object is available by running the following command and inspecting the output:

    $ oc -n ns1-coo get monitoringstack
    Example output
    NAME                         AGE
example-coo-monitoring-stack   81m