Monitoring Services
Garden Enterprise bundles the following tools for monitoring and logging:
You can choose which of these services Garden Enterprise installs during the installation process. Furthermore, you can optionally enable the ingresses to the Kibana and Grafana dashboards.
Before proceeding, make sure you have your Kubernetes context set to the context of the cluster that runs Garden Enterprise (you can also pass it as an option to
kubectl via the --context flag).Elasticsearch and Kibana are very powerful tools for storing and viewing logs respectively. Below you'll find a quick guide to getting started with Kibana, but we recommend looking at the official documentation to see the full potential of these tools.
In what follows, we assume you've already installed Garden Enterprise and that it's running in the
garden-enterprise namespace. If you used a different namespace, adjust the namespace flag in the kubectl commands below appropriately.You can start a port-forward from your localhost to Kibana by running:
kubectl port-forward svc/prod-charts-kibana 5601:5601 -n garden-enterprise
Then visit http://localhost:5601 in your browser.
The links below assume you've used the port-forward command above and that Kibana is available on port
5601 locally.Set the index pattern value to
logstash-*, click Next Step and proceed through the dialog.
index pattern
Select index pattern
You should now see your logs on the main screen. By default, it shows all the logs that Fluentd collects in the cluster. You can easily filter on these in the search bar at the top of the page.
For example, to filter on logs from the API service, you can query for
kubernetes.labels.app_kubernetes_io/name:api.You can also configure the logs stream view to see a live stream of logs.
Log indices
Next click the Apply button at the bottom.
Finally, remove all Log Columns except
Timestamp and add kubernetes.labels.app_kubernetes_io/name and log.
Log columns
Click the Apply button again.
You can filter on logs in the search bar by using the following syntax:
<column-name>:<value>. For example, kubernetes.labels.app_kubernetes_io/name:api.This barely scratches the surface of what Kibana can do, and we recommend checking out their website for a list of features, dashboard inspirations and documentation.
Before proceeding, make sure you have your Kubernetes context set to the context of the cluster that runs Garden Enterprise (you can also pass it as an option to
kubectl via the --context flag).Grafana is an open source dashboard that can display data from Prometheus (among other things), the underlying metrics collector. Below you'll find a quick guide to getting started with Grafana, but we recommend looking at the official documentation to see its full potential.
In what follows, we assume you've already installed Garden Enterprise and that it's running in the
garden-enterprise namespace. If you used a different namespace, adjust the namespace flag in the kubectl commands below appropriately.You can start a port-forward from your localhost to Grafana by running:
kubectl port-forward svc/prod-charts-grafana 8080:80 -n garden-enterprise
Then visit http://localhost:8080 in your browser.
The links below assume you've used the port-forward command above and that Grafana is available on port
8080 locally.Go to the Grafana data sources page in your browser. The default username for Grafana is
admin and you'll need to provide the password you created during the Garden Enterprise installation.On the data sources page, click Add data source and select Prometheus.
Go to the import page and import a pre-built Grafana dashboard. You can find a list of open source Grafana dashboards here.
For example, you can try adding dashboard with ID 11074. You should now see your dashboard on the dashboard page. Click the link and start exploring.
As with the Kibana guide above, this guide barely scratches the surface of all the things Prometheus and Grafana are capable of, and we recommend you check out their official documentation for more.