Operations

Monitoring

You can connect to the granfana dashboard that shows metrics of the infrastructure. We expect you to the have kubectl and aws or gcloud installed on your system.

Requirements

Install kubectl; https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/#kubectl

Install (AWS only); https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/getting-started-install.html#getting-started-install-instructions

Install (GCP only); https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/install-sdk

After installation make sure that you have authorized the cli to connect the cloud platform.

For GCP; see https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/install-sdk#initializing_the, For AWS; see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-configure.html

With cli properly configured, run the following command to add access to the kubectl context.

For GCP, run;

gcloud container clusters get-credentials cluster --region "<REGION_HERE>" --project "<PROJECT_ID>"

WARNING: If you are seeing "CRITICAL: ACTION REQUIRED: gke-gcloud-auth-plugin, which is needed for continued use of kubectl, was not found or is not executable. Install gke-gcloud-auth-plugin for use with kubectl by following https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/kubectl-auth-changes-in-gke", run gcloud components install gke-gcloud-auth-plugin and run the gcloud command above again.

For AWS, run;

aws eks update-kubeconfig --region "<REGION_HERE>" --name aw-services

Finally, run;

grafana_pod=$(kubectl get pods -n observability -l "app.kubernetes.io/name=grafana" -o jsonpath="{.items[0].metadata.name}")
grafana_port=$(kubectl get pod "$grafana_pod" -n observability -o jsonpath='{.spec.containers[?(@.name=="grafana")].ports[?(@.name=="grafana")].containerPort}')
kubectl port-forward "pods/$grafana_pod" "3000:$grafana_port" -n observability

Navigate to http://localhost:3000 on the browser to see the dashboard.