Kubernetes

Monitoring Kubernetes is crucial to gain instant visibility into Kubernetes clusters and workloads. Download New Relic Kubernetes quickstart to proactively monitor Kubernetes cluster health and capacity.

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What's included?

dashboards

Kubernetes quickstart contains 1 dashboard. These interactive visualizations let you easily explore your data, understand context, and resolve problems faster.

Kubernetes Dashboard

alerts

Kubernetes observability quickstart contains 23 alerts. These alerts detect changes in key performance metrics. Integrate these alerts with your favorite tools (like Slack, PagerDuty, etc.) and New Relic will let you know when something needs your attention.

Container is Waiting

Alert when a container is Waiting for more than 5 minutes

Etcd has no leader

Alert when Etcd has no leader for more than 1 minute

Container cpu throttling is high

Alert when container is being throttled > 25% of the time for more than 5 minutes

Job Failed

Alert when a Job reports a failed status

Node allocatable cpu utilization is high

Alert when the average Node allocatable cpu utilization is > 90% for more than 5 minutes

Container high memory utilization

Alert when the average container memory utilization (vs. Limit) is > 90% for more than 5 minutes

Etcd file descriptor utilization is high

Alert when Etcd file descriptor utilization is > 90% for more than 5 minutes

HPA current replicas < desired replicas

Alert when a Horizontal Pod Autoscaler's current replicas < desired replicas for > 5 minutes

Container is Restarting

Alert when the container restart count is greater than 0 in a sliding 5 minute window

Deployment is missing Pods

Alert when Deployment is missing Pods for > 5 minutes

Node root file system capacity utilization is high

Alert when the average Node root file system capacity utilization is > 90% for more than 5 minutes

Daemonset is missing Pods

Alert when Daemonset is missing Pods for > 5 minutes

Node allocatable memory utilization is high

Alert when the average Node allocatable memory utilization is > 90% for more than 5 minutes

Container high cpu utilization

Alert when the average container cpu utilization (vs. Limit) is > 90% for more than 5 minutes

Node is not ready

Alert when a Node is not ready for > 5 minutes

HPA has reached maximum replicas

Alert when a Horizontal Pod Autoscaler has reached its maximum replicas for > 5

Pod cannot be scheduled

Alert when a Pod cannot be scheduled for more than 5 minutes

Persistent Volume has errors

Alert when Persistent Volume is in a Failed or Pending state for more than 5 minutes

Node Pod count nearing capacity

Alert when the Running pod count on a Node is > 90% of the Node's Pod Capacity for more than 5 minutes

Node is unschedulable

Alert when Node has been marked as unschedulable

Statefulset is missing Pods

Alert when Statefulset is missing Pods for > 5 minutes

More than 5 pods failing in namespace

AAlert when more than 5 pods are failing in a namespace for more than 5 minutes

Pod is not ready

Alert when a Pod is not ready for > 5 minutes

documentation

Kubernetes observability quickstart contains 1 documentation reference. This is how you'll get your data into New Relic.

Kubernetes installation docs

Kubernetes is an open-source container-orchestration system for automating
computer application deployment, scaling, and management.

Why monitor Kubernetes?

Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and, management of containerized applications. The New Relic Kubernetes monitoring quickstart gives you visibility into your Kubernetes clusters and workloads in minutes, whether your clusters are hosted on-premises or in the cloud.

Kubernetes quickstart highlights

The New Relic Kubernetes quickstart uses dashboards to proactively monitor your metrics, like:

resources used
number of K8s objects
namespaces per cluster
pods by namespace
container cpu usage
container restarts
missing pods by deployment
node resource consumption, and more.

This quickstart is also compatible with on-host integrations like:

Cassandra
MySQL
Apache, and more.

New Relic + Kubernetes = Optimum performance monitoring

The New Relic Kubernetes quickstart has multiple components that work together to give you end-to-end observability across your clusters. While you have the flexibility to deploy the components that you prefer, to achieve full observability, you need to install the complete package to monitor all metrics. Use our quickstart to generate a Kubernetes manifest and add Pixie for more fine-grained telemetry data. You can also do the installation with Pixie for fine-grained telemetry data. Our quickstart monitors the aggregated core and memory usage across all nodes in your cluster. This allows you to meet resource requirements for optimal application performance. It also empowers you to track resource consumption, find pods that aren't running, monitor disk usage, and troubleshoot container restarts. The New Relic Kubernetes integration has dashboards and a cluster explorer that provide a multi-dimensional representation of a Kubernetes cluster from which you can explore your namespaces, deployments, nodes, pods, containers, and applications. Download the New Relic Kubernetes quickstart today to gain instant visibility into your Kubernetes services, clusters and workloads in minutes.

How to use this quickstart

Sign Up for a free New Relic account or Log In to your existing account.
Click the install button.
Install the quickstart to get started or improve how you monitor your environment. They're filled with pre-built resources like dashboards, instrumentation, and alerts.

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Authors

New Relic

Emil Hammarstrand

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