Lab 7.2 - Create a Config Map To Externalize Prometheus Configurations
All configurations for Prometheus are part of prometheus.yaml file, and all the alert rules for Alertmanager are configured in prometheus.rules.
prometheus.yaml: This is the main Prometheus configuration which holds all the scrape configs, service discovery details, storage locations, data retention configs, etc.prometheus.rules: This file contains all the Prometheus alerting rules.
By externalizing Prometheus configs to a Kubernetes config map, you don’t have to build the Prometheus image whenever you need to add or remove a configuration. You need to update the config map and restart the Prometheus pods to apply the new configuration.
1. Create a file called config-map.yaml
vim config-map.yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
name: prometheus-server-conf
labels:
name: prometheus-server-conf
namespace: monitoring
data:
prometheus.rules: |-
groups:
- name: devopscube demo alert
rules:
- alert: High Pod Memory
expr: sum(container_memory_usage_bytes) > 1
for: 1m
labels:
severity: high-resources
annotations:
summary: High Memory Usage
prometheus.yml: |-
global:
scrape_interval: 5s
evaluation_interval: 5s
rule_files:
- /etc/prometheus/prometheus.rules
alerting:
alertmanagers:
- scheme: http
static_configs:
- targets:
- "alertmanager.monitoring.svc:9093"
scrape_configs:
- job_name: 'node-exporter'
kubernetes_sd_configs:
- role: endpoints
relabel_configs:
- source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_endpoints_name]
regex: 'node-exporter'
action: keep
- job_name: 'kubernetes-apiservers'
kubernetes_sd_configs:
- role: endpoints
scheme: https
tls_config:
ca_file: /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/ca.crt
bearer_token_file: /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token
relabel_configs:
- source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_namespace, __meta_kubernetes_service_name, __meta_kubernetes_endpoint_port_name]
action: keep
regex: default;kubernetes;https
- job_name: 'kubernetes-nodes'
scheme: https
tls_config:
ca_file: /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/ca.crt
bearer_token_file: /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token
kubernetes_sd_configs:
- role: node
relabel_configs:
- action: labelmap
regex: __meta_kubernetes_node_label_(.+)
- target_label: __address__
replacement: kubernetes.default.svc:443
- source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_node_name]
regex: (.+)
target_label: __metrics_path__
replacement: /api/v1/nodes/${1}/proxy/metrics
- job_name: 'kubernetes-pods'
kubernetes_sd_configs:
- role: pod
relabel_configs:
- source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_pod_annotation_prometheus_io_scrape]
action: keep
regex: true
- source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_pod_annotation_prometheus_io_path]
action: replace
target_label: __metrics_path__
regex: (.+)
- source_labels: [__address__, __meta_kubernetes_pod_annotation_prometheus_io_port]
action: replace
regex: ([^:]+)(?::\d+)?;(\d+)
replacement: $1:$2
target_label: __address__
- action: labelmap
regex: __meta_kubernetes_pod_label_(.+)
- source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_namespace]
action: replace
target_label: kubernetes_namespace
- source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_pod_name]
action: replace
target_label: kubernetes_pod_name
- job_name: 'kube-state-metrics'
static_configs:
- targets: ['kube-state-metrics.kube-system.svc.cluster.local:8080']
- job_name: 'kubernetes-cadvisor'
scheme: https
tls_config:
ca_file: /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/ca.crt
bearer_token_file: /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token
kubernetes_sd_configs:
- role: node
relabel_configs:
- action: labelmap
regex: __meta_kubernetes_node_label_(.+)
- target_label: __address__
replacement: kubernetes.default.svc:443
- source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_node_name]
regex: (.+)
target_label: __metrics_path__
replacement: /api/v1/nodes/${1}/proxy/metrics/cadvisor
- job_name: 'kubernetes-service-endpoints'
kubernetes_sd_configs:
- role: endpoints
relabel_configs:
- source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_service_annotation_prometheus_io_scrape]
action: keep
regex: true
- source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_service_annotation_prometheus_io_scheme]
action: replace
target_label: __scheme__
regex: (https?)
- source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_service_annotation_prometheus_io_path]
action: replace
target_label: __metrics_path__
regex: (.+)
- source_labels: [__address__, __meta_kubernetes_service_annotation_prometheus_io_port]
action: replace
target_label: __address__
regex: ([^:]+)(?::\d+)?;(\d+)
replacement: $1:$2
- action: labelmap
regex: __meta_kubernetes_service_label_(.+)
- source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_namespace]
action: replace
target_label: kubernetes_namespace
- source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_service_name]
action: replace
target_label: kubernetes_name
2. Execute the following command to create the config map in Kubernetes:
#create config yaml file
kubectl create -f config-map.yaml
It creates two files inside the container.
Note: In Prometheus terms, the config for collecting metrics from a collection of endpoints is called a job.
The prometheus.yaml contains all the configurations to discover pods and services running in the Kubernetes cluster dynamically. We have the following scrape jobs in our Prometheus scrape configuration:
kubernetes-apiservers: It gets all the metrics from the API servers.kubernetes-nodes: It collects all the Kubernetes node metrics.kubernetes-pods: All the pod metrics get discovered if the pod metadata is annotated withprometheus.io/scrapeandprometheus.io/portannotations.kubernetes-cadvisor: Collects all cAdvisor metrics.kubernetes-service-endpoints: All the Service endpoints are scrapped if the service metadata is annotated withprometheus.io/scrapeandprometheus.io/portannotations. It can be used for black-box monitoring.
prometheus.rules contains all the alert rules for sending alerts to the Alertmanager.