Tag: Monitoring
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Local Kubernetes setup with KinD
Getting started with Kubernetes these days is easy and does not require to be in the lucky position having access to a cloud provider subscription for playing around with managed Kubernetes like AKS, EKS or GKE. All you need is your local machine. But then you must choose which one of the available offerings you…
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Connect KinD with Azure Monitor for containers
Last year Microsoft announced the Azure Monitor for containers support for on-premises Kubernetes clusters. -> https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-monitor-now-supports-monitoring-containers-on-premises-and-on-azure-stack/ As I recently switched from the Docker Desktop for Mac Kubernetes single node cluster to KinD (Kubernetes in Docker), I was curious about to try out the on-premises Kubernetes cluster support. > docker ps CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED…
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AKS – Authentication issues real-time container logging solution
UPDATE 15.08.2019: The issue described here in my blog post has been resolved in the Azure docs with the following pull request. -> https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs/pull/37045 Back in June Microsoft announced an URL change affecting the Azure Monitor for containers real-time container logging solution. -> https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-monitor-for-containers-updates-to-live-data-settings/ -> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/insights/container-insights-live-logs#configure-aks-with-azure-active-directory The URL that needs to be added in the…
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Tweaking data collection for Azure Monitor for containers
Recently Microsoft introduced silently some configurations options for the Azure Monitor for containers solution. As you might know the Azure Monitor for containers solution collects stdout, stderr and environment variables from AKS and AKS-engine clusters except from containers running in the kube-system namespace. If you want to use the new feature the minimum agent version…
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View AKS kubelet logs via serial console for Azure VMs
As you may now you can view the kubelet logs from an AKS node for troubleshooting purposes. The guidance provided in the Microsoft documentation lets spin you up a container in the AKS cluster which you then use to jump on the node via an SSH connection. -> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/ssh -> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/kubelet-logs Another way you can…
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Sending logs from the Azure Kubernetes Service master endpoint to Log Analytics
Azure provides native monitoring capabilities for an Azure Kubernetes Service cluster based on Azure Monitor, Azure Log Analytics and the Container Insights solution. -> https://www.danielstechblog.io/monitor-azure-kubernetes-service-with-azure-monitor-container-health/ But this covers only the part for the agent nodes and the containers that are running on them. If you want to have the logs from the AKS master endpoint,…