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Monitoring KubeDB Operator

KubeDB has native support for monitoring via Prometheus. You can use builtin Prometheus scraper or Prometheus operator to monitor KubeDB supported databases as well as KubeDB operator itself. This tutorial will show you what metrics KubeDB operator exports and how to enable monitoring for the operator itself.

Overview

KubeDB operator pod runs an Extension API Server which self hosts admission webhooks such as MutatingAdmissionWebhook and ValidatingAdmissionWebhook. The extension API server exports some metrics in /metrics path of TLS secured 8443 port. KubeDB installation process creates a service with same name as KubeDB operator (i.e. kubedb) in same namespace as the operator pod. Prometheus server can use api endpoint of this service to scrape those metrics.

Exported Metrics

KubeDB operator exports following metrics.

API Server Metrics:

Metric NameUses
apiserver_audit_event_totalCounter of audit events generated and sent to the audit backend.
apiserver_client_certificate_expiration_secondsDistribution of the remaining lifetime on the certificate used to authenticate a request.
apiserver_current_inflight_requestsMaximal number of currently used inflight request limit of this apiserver per request kind in last second.
apiserver_request_countCounter of apiserver requests broken out for each verb, API resource, client, and HTTP response contentType and code.
apiserver_request_latenciesResponse latency distribution in microseconds for each verb, resource and subresource.
apiserver_request_latencies_summaryResponse latency summary in microseconds for each verb, resource and subresource.
authenticated_user_requestsCounter of authenticated requests broken out by username.

Go Metrics:

Metric NameUses
go_gc_duration_secondsA summary of the GC invocation durations.
go_goroutinesNumber of goroutines that currently exist.
go_memstats_alloc_bytesNumber of bytes allocated and still in use.
go_memstats_alloc_bytes_totalTotal number of bytes allocated, even if freed.
go_memstats_buck_hash_sys_bytesNumber of bytes used by the profiling bucket hash table.
go_memstats_frees_totalTotal number of frees.
go_memstats_gc_sys_bytesNumber of bytes used for garbage collection system metadata.
go_memstats_heap_alloc_bytesNumber of heap bytes allocated and still in use.
go_memstats_heap_idle_bytesNumber of heap bytes waiting to be used.
go_memstats_heap_inuse_bytesNumber of heap bytes that are in use.
go_memstats_heap_objectsNumber of allocated objects.
go_memstats_heap_released_bytes_totalTotal number of heap bytes released to OS.
go_memstats_heap_sys_bytesNumber of heap bytes obtained from system.
go_memstats_last_gc_time_secondsNumber of seconds since 1970 of last garbage collection.
go_memstats_lookups_totalTotal number of pointer lookups.
go_memstats_mallocs_totalTotal number of mallocs.
go_memstats_mcache_inuse_bytesNumber of bytes in use by mcache structures.
go_memstats_mcache_sys_bytesNumber of bytes used for mcache structures obtained from system.
go_memstats_mspan_inuse_bytesNumber of bytes in use by mspan structures.
go_memstats_mspan_sys_bytesNumber of bytes used for mspan structures obtained from system.
go_memstats_next_gc_bytesNumber of heap bytes when next garbage collection will take place.
go_memstats_other_sys_bytesNumber of bytes used for other system allocations.
go_memstats_stack_inuse_bytesNumber of bytes in use by the stack allocator.
go_memstats_stack_sys_bytesNumber of bytes obtained from system for stack allocator.
go_memstats_sys_bytesNumber of bytes obtained by system. Sum of all system allocations.

HTTP Metrics:

MetricsUses
http_request_duration_microsecondsThe HTTP request latencies in microseconds.
http_request_size_bytesThe HTTP request sizes in bytes.
http_requests_totalTotal number of HTTP requests made.
http_response_size_bytesThe HTTP response sizes in bytes.

Process Metrics:

Metric NameUses
process_cpu_seconds_totalTotal user and system CPU time spent in seconds.
process_max_fdsMaximum number of open file descriptors.
process_open_fdsNumber of open file descriptors.
process_resident_memory_bytesResident memory size in bytes.
process_start_time_secondsStart time of the process since unix epoch in seconds.
process_virtual_memory_bytesVirtual memory size in bytes.

How to Enable Monitoring

You can enable operator monitoring through some flags while installing or upgrading or updating KubeDB via both script and Helm. You can also choose which monitoring agent to use for monitoring. KubeDB will configure respective resources accordingly. Here, are the list of available flags and their uses,

Helm ValuesAcceptable ValuesDefaultUses
monitoring.enabledtrue or falsefalseSpecify whether to monitor KubeDB operator.
monitoring.agentprometheus.io/builtin or prometheus.io/operatornoneSpecify which monitoring agent to use for monitoring KubeDB operator.
monitoring.prometheus.namespaceany namespacesame namespace as KubeDB operatorSpecify the namespace where Prometheus server is running or will be deployed
monitoring.serviceMonitor.labelsany labelFor Helm installation, app: <generated app name> and release: <release name>. For script installation, app: kubedbSpecify the labels for ServiceMonitor. Prometheus crd will select ServiceMonitor using these labels. Only usable when monitoring agent is prometheus.io/operator.

You have to provides these flags while installing or upgrading or updating KubeDB operator. Here, are examples for both script and Helm installation process are given which enable monitoring with prometheus.io/operator Prometheuse server for operator metrics.

Helm 3:

$ helm install kubedb appscode/kubedb --version v2021.12.21 \
  --namespace kubedb --create-namespace \
  --set monitoring.enabled=true \
  --set monitoring.agent=prometheus.io/operator \
  --set monitoring.prometheus.namespace=monitoring \
  --set monitoring.serviceMonitor.labels.k8s-app=prometheus

YAML (with Helm 3):

$ helm template kubedb appscode/kubedb --version v2021.12.21 \
  --namespace kubedb --create-namespace \
  --set monitoring.enabled=true \
  --set monitoring.agent=prometheus.io/operator \
  --set monitoring.prometheus.namespace=monitoring \
  --set monitoring.serviceMonitor.labels.k8s-app=prometheus | kubectl apply -f -

Next Steps

  • Learn how to monitor KubeDB operator using built-in Prometheus from here.
  • Learn how to monitor KubeDB operator using Prometheus operator from here.