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Monitor GET using Grafana Cloud

Note

Monitoring with Grafana Cloud is required for all GET installations. Professional services will assist you in configuring monitoring for your GET installation.

Metamonitoring for GET is handled by the Grafana k8s-monitoring Helm chart (>=v2.1). Using Grafana Alloy to collect metrics and logs.

Before you begin

  • Helm v3+
  • Supported Kubernetes cluster: EKS, AKS, and GKE.
  • Existing GET deployment in Kubernetes.
  • Grafana Cloud account for metrics/logs storage

Steps

  1. Add the Grafana Helm Chart, or update if already added. This will be using the K8s-Monitoring-Helm and the values.yml file will be to set parameters in the Helm chart.
helm repo add grafana https://grafana.github.io/helm-charts
helm repo update
  1. Generate values.yml.
yaml 
cluster:
  name: enterprise-traces # Name of the cluster, this will populate the cluster label

integrations:
  tempo:
    instances:
      - name: "enterprise-traces" # This is the name for the instance label that will be reported.
        namespaces:
          - enterprise-traces # This is the namespace that will be searched for tempo instances, change this accordingly
        metrics:
          enabled: true
          portName: prom-metrics
        logs:
          enabled: true
        labelSelectors:
          app.kubernetes.io/name: tempo

  alloy:
    name: "alloy-enterprise"

destinations:
  - name: "enterprise-metrics"
    type: prometheus
    url: "<url>" # URL for prometheus, this can be found under your Grafana Cloud account and should look similiar to "https://prometheus-us-central1.grafana.net/api/prom/push"
    auth:
      type: basic
      username: "<username>" # Username for Grafana Cloud Prometheus 
      password: "<password>" # Password for Grafana Cloud Prometheus

  - name: "enterprise-logs"
    type: loki
    url: "<url>" # URL for loki, this can be found under your grafana cloud account and should look similiar to "https://logs-prod-us-central1.grafana.net/loki/api/v1/push"
    auth:
      type: basic
      username: "<username>" # Username for Grafana Cloud Loki 
      password: "<password>" # Password for Grafana Cloud Loki 

alloy-metrics:
  enabled: true

podLogs:
  enabled: true
  gatherMethod: kubernetesApi
  namespaces: [enterprise-traces] # Set to namespace
  collector: alloy-singleton

alloy-singleton:
  enabled: true

alloy-metrics:
  enabled: true # This will send Grafana Alloy metrics to ensure the monitoring is working properly.
  1. Install the Helm chart using the following command to create a daemonset that grabs Tempo logs:
 helm install k8s-monitoring grafana/k8s-monitoring \
  --namespace monitoring \
  --create-namespace \
  -f values.yml
  1. View Logs and Metrics

Log into Grafana Cloud. Select metrics drilldown and select cluster=<cluster.name> where cluster.name is the name specified in the values.yml. Do the same for logs drilldown.