Implementing Observability for Kubernetes.pdf

Implementing Observability
for Kubernetes
José Manuel Ortega(@jmortegac)

Agenda
● Introducing the concept of observability
● Implementing Kubernetes observability
● Observability stack in K8s
● Integrating Prometheus with
OpenTelemetry

Introducing the concept of observability
● Software architecture is more complex.
● Pillars of observability—logs, metrics,
and traces.
● Observability is now a top priority for
DevOps teams.

● Monitoring
● Logging
● Tracing

● time=”2019-12-23T01:27:38-04:00″
level=debug msg=”Application starting”
environment=dev
● http_requests_total=100
log metric

Implementing Kubernetes observability
1. Node status. Current health status and availability of the
node.
2. Node resource usage metrics. Disk and memory
utilization, CPU and network bandwidth.
3. Implementation status. Current and desired state of the
deployments in the cluster.
4. Number of pods. Kubernetes internal components and
processes use this information to manage the workload and
schedule the pods.

1. Kubernetes metrics. These metrics apply to the number
and types of resources within a pod. This metric includes
resource limit tracking to avoid running out of system
resources.
2. Container metrics. These metrics capture the utilization of
container-level resources, such as CPU, memory, and
network usage.
3. Application metrics. Such metrics include the number of
active or online users and response times.

Observability stack in K8s
● Kubewatch is an open-source Kubernetes monitoring
tool that sends notiﬁcations about changes in a
Kubernetes cluster to various communication channels,
such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, or email.
● It monitors Kubernetes resources, such as deployments,
services, and pods, and alerts users in real-time when
changes occur.
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● Jaeger is an open-source distributed tracing system
● The tool is designed to monitor and troubleshoot
distributed microservices, mostly focusing on:
○ Distributed context propagation
○ Distributed transaction monitoring
○ Root cause analysis
○ Service dependency analysis
○ Performance/latency optimization
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apiVersion: jaegertracing.io/v1
kind: Jaeger
metadata:
name: simplest

● Fluentd is an open-source data collector for
uniﬁed logging layers.
● It works with Kubernetes running as
DaemonSet. This combination ensures that all
nodes run one copy of a pod.
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apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: DaemonSet
metadata:
name: fluentd
namespace: kube-system
spec:
containers:
– name: fluentd
image:
quay.io/fluent/fluentd-kubernetes-daemonset

● Prometheus is a cloud native time series data
store with built-in rich query language for
metrics.
● Collecting data with Prometheus opens up many
possibilities for increasing the observability of
your infrastructure and the containers running in
Kubernetes cluster.
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● Multi-dimensional data model
● Prometheus query language(PromQL)
● Data collection
● Storage
● Visualization(Grafana)
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● Most of the metrics can be exported using node_exporter
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○ Resource utilization saturation. The containers’ resource
consumption and allocation.
○ The number of failing pods and errors within a speciﬁc
namespace.
○ Kubernetes resource capacity. The total number of
nodes, CPU cores, and memory available.

● Service dependencies & communication map
○ What services are communicating with each other?
○ What HTTP calls are being made?
● Operational monitoring & alerting
○ Is any network communication failing?
○ Is the communication broken on layer 4 (TCP) or layer 7 (HTTP)?
● Application monitoring
○ What is the rate of 5xx or 4xx HTTP response codes for a
particular service or across all clusters?
● Security observability
○ Which services had connections blocked due to network policy?
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Service Dependency Graph

Networking Behavior

HTTP Request/Response Rate & Latency

Integrating Prometheus with OpenTelemetry

● Receivers: are the data sources of observability
information.
● Processors: they process the information received before it
is exported to the different backends.
● Exporters: they are in charge of exporting the information to
the different backends, such as Jaeger or Kafka

Integrating Prometheus with Open

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otel-collector:
image: otel/opentelemetry-collector:latest
command: [ "--config=/etc/otel-collector-config.yaml" ]
volumes:
- ./otel-collector-config.yaml:/etc/otel-collector-config.yaml:Z
ports:
- "13133:13133"
- "4317:4317"
- "4318:4318"
depends_on:
- jaeger
otel-collector-config.yaml

processors:
batch:
extensions:
health_check:
service:
extensions: [health_check]
pipelines:
traces:
receivers: [otlp]
processors: [batch]
exporters: [jaeger]
receivers:
otlp:
protocols:
grpc:
endpoint: otel-collector:4317
exporters:
jaeger:
endpoint: jaeger:14250
tls:
insecure: true
otel-collector-config.yaml

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receivers:
..
prometheus:
config:
scrape_configs:
- job_name: 'service-a'
scrape_interval: 2s
metrics_path: '/metrics/prometheus'
static_configs:
- targets: [ 'service-a:8080' ]
- job_name: 'service-b'
scrape_interval: 2s
metrics_path: '/actuator/prometheus'
static_configs:
- targets: [ 'service-b:8081' ]
- job_name: 'service-c'
scrape_interval: 2s

exporters:
…
prometheusremotewrite:
endpoint: http://prometheus:9090/api/v1/write
tls:
insecure: true
● active in Prometheus “--web.enable-remote-write-receiver”

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Conclusions
● Lean on the native capabilities of Kubernetes for the
collection and exploitation of metrics in order to know
the state of health of your pods and, in general, of your
cluster.
● Use these metrics to be able to create alarms that
proactively notify us of errors or even allow us to
anticipate issues in our applications or infraestructure.

¡Thank you!
@jmortegac
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