The metrics-agent collects allocation metrics from a Kubernetes cluster system and sends the metrics to cloudability to help you gain visibility, reduce costs, and increase efficiency across your infrastructure. The agent is designed to run as a container in each cluster inside your orchestration system.
By default, the agent runs in a namespace named "cloudability" (see options below). Once deployed, the agent will pull metrics from the Kubernetes API and directly from each node in the cluster it is running in. An example kubernetes deployment can be found here.
Every 10 minutes the metrics agent creates a tarball of the gathered metrics and uploads to an Amazon Web Service S3 bucket. This process requires outbound connections to https://metrics-collector.cloudability.com/, to obtain a pre-signed URL, and https://apptio*.s3.amazonaws.com/ to upload the data. If the metrics agent is deployed behind a firewall, these addresses should be added to the outbound allow list.
Kubernetes version 1.30 is supported by metrics agent on AWS cloud service (EKS). Kubernetes versions 1.29 and below are supported by the metrics agent on AWS cloud service (EKS), Google Cloud Platform (GKE), Azure cloud services (AKS), and Oracle Cloud (OKE).
OpenShift versions 4.14 to 4.10 are supported by the metrics agent on ROSA.
On AWS, both AMD64 and ARM architectures are supported.
Instructions for deploying the metrics-agent using Helm can be found here. For helm versioning this repository follows the simple 1-1 versioning strategy where the chart version is in snyc with the actual application.
Cloudability Metrics Agent currently does not support Rancher or On Prem clusters.
| Environment Variable | Description |
|---|---|
| CLOUDABILITY_API_KEY | Required: Cloudability api key |
| CLOUDABILITY_CLUSTER_NAME | Required: The cluster name to be used for the cluster the agent is running in. |
| CLOUDABILITY_POLL_INTERVAL | Optional: The interval (Seconds) to poll metrics. Default: 180 |
| CLOUDABILITY_OUTBOUND_PROXY | Optional: The URL of an outbound HTTP/HTTPS proxy for the agent to use (eg: http://x.x.x.x:8080). The URL must contain the scheme prefix (http:// or https://) |
| CLOUDABILITY_OUTBOUND_PROXY_AUTH | Optional: Basic Authentication credentials to be used with the defined outbound proxy. If your outbound proxy requires basic authentication credentials can be defined in the form username:password |
| CLOUDABILITY_OUTBOUND_PROXY_INSECURE | Optional: When true, does not verify TLS certificates when using the outbound proxy. Default: False |
| CLOUDABILITY_INSECURE | Optional: When true, does not verify certificates when making TLS connections. Default: False |
| CLOUDABILITY_FORCE_KUBE_PROXY | Optional: When true, forces agent to use the proxy to connect to nodes rather than attempting a direct connection. Default: False |
| CLOUDABILITY_COLLECTION_RETRY_LIMIT | Optional: Number of times agent should attempt to gather metrics from each source upon a failure Default: 1 |
| CLOUDABILITY_NAMESPACE | Optional: Override the namespace that the agent runs in. It is not recommended to change this as it may negatively affect the agents ability to collect data. Default: cloudability |
| CLOUDABILITY_LOG_FORMAT | Optional: Format for log output (JSON,PLAIN) Default: PLAIN |
| CLOUDABILITY_LOG_LEVEL | Optional: Log level to run the agent at (INFO,WARN,DEBUG,TRACE). Default: INFO |
| CLOUDABILITY_SCRATCH_DIR | Optional: Temporary directory that metrics will be written to. If set, must assure that the directory exists and that the user agent UID 10000 has read/write access to the folder. Default: /tmp |
| CLOUDABILITY_NUMBER_OF_CONCURRENT_NODE_POLLERS | Optional: Number of goroutines that are created to poll node metrics in parallel. Default: 100 |
| CLOUDABILITY_INFORMER_RESYNC_INTERVAL | Optional: Period of time (in hours) that the informers will fully resync the list of running resources. Default: 24 hours. Can be set to 0 to never resync |
| CLOUDABILITY_PARSE_METRIC_DATA | Optional: When true, core files will be parsed and non-relevant data will be removed prior to upload. Default: false |
| CLOUDABILITY_HTTPS_CLIENT_TIMEOUT | Optional: Amount (in seconds) of time the http client has before timing out requests. Might need to be increased to clusters with large payloads. Default: 60 |
| CLOUDABILITY_UPLOAD_REGION | Optional: The region the metrics-agent will upload data to. Default us-west-2. Supported values: us-west-2, eu-central-1, ap-southeast-2, me-central-1, us-gov-west-1 |
| CLOUDABILITY_CUSTOM_S3_BUCKET | Optional: A custom S3 bucket the metrics-agent will upload data to. If set, the metrics-agent will ONLY upload to this custom location. CLOUDABILITY_CUSTOM_S3_REGION is REQUIRED if this is set. |
| CLOUDABILITY_CUSTOM_S3_REGION | Optional: The AWS region that the custom s3 bucket is in. This will initialize the correct region for the s3 client. CLOUDABILITY_CUSTOM_S3_BUCKET is REQUIRED if this is set. |
metrics-agent kubernetes --help
Command to collect Kubernetes Metrics
Usage:
metrics-agent kubernetes [flags]
Flags:
--api_key string Cloudability API Key - required
--certificate_file string The path to a certificate file. - Optional
--cluster_name string Kubernetes Cluster Name - required this must be unique to every cluster.
--collection_retry_limit uint Number of times agent should attempt to gather metrics from each source upon a failure (default 1)
-h, --help help for kubernetes
--insecure When true, does not verify certificates when making TLS connections. Default: False
--key_file string The path to a key file. - Optional
--outbound_proxy string Outbound HTTP/HTTPS proxy eg: http://x.x.x.x:8080. Must have a scheme prefix (http:// or https://) - Optional
--outbound_proxy_auth string Outbound proxy basic authentication credentials. Must defined in the form username:password - Optional
--outbound_proxy_insecure When true, does not verify TLS certificates when using the outbound proxy. Default: False
--force_kube_proxy When true, forces agent to use the proxy to connect to nodes rather than attempting a direct connection. Default: False
--poll_interval int Time, in seconds, to poll the services infrastructure. Default: 180 (default 180)
--namespace string The namespace which the agent runs in. Changing this is not recommended. (default `cloudability`)
--informer_resync_interval int The amount of time, in hours, between informer resyncs. (default 24)
--number_of_concurrent_node_pollers int The number of goroutines that are created to poll node metrics in parallel. (default `100`)
--parse_metric_data bool When true, core files will be parsed and non-relevant data will be removed prior to upload. (default `false`)
--https_client_timeout int Amount (in seconds) of time the https client has before timing out requests. (default `60`)
--upload_region The region the metrics-agent will upload data to. (default `us-west-2`)
--custom_s3_bucket string A custom S3 bucket the metrics-agent will upload data to. - Optional
--custom_s3_region The AWS region that the custom s3 bucket is created.
Global Flags:
--log_format string Format for log output (JSON,PLAIN) (default "PLAIN")
--log_level string Log level to run the agent at (INFO,WARN,DEBUG) (default "INFO")The following recommendation is based on number of nodes in the cluster. It's for references only. The actual required resources depends on a number of factors such as number of nodes, pods, workload, etc. Please adjust the resources depending on your actual usage. By default, the helm installation and manifest file configures the first row (nodes < 100) from the reference table.
| Number of Nodes | CPU Request | CPU Limit | Mem Request | Mem Limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| < 100 | 500m | 1000m | 2GBi | 4GBi |
| 100-200 | 1000m | 1500m | 4GBi | 8GBi |
| 200-500 | 1500m | 2000m | 8GBi | 16GBi |
| 500-1000 | 2000m | 3000m | 16GBi | 24GBi |
| 1000+ | 3000m | 24GBi |
The container that hosts the metrics agent should allow HTTPS requests to following endpoints:
- metrics-collector.cloudability.com port 443
The container that hosts the metrics agent should have write access to following Apptio S3 buckets:
- apptio* (bucket prefixed with apptio)
We're using go modules for Go dependencies.
We're using golangci-lint for static source code analysis.
You'll find information and help on how to contribute code in the CONTRIBUTING document in this repo.
You must obtain a valid API Key and export it locally as an environment variable.
export CLOUDABILITY_API_KEY={your_api_key}
make deploy-localThe makefile target deploy-local assumes that you have docker and kubernetes (with a context: docker-for-desktop) running locally. The target does the following:
- Builds a container with the local project codebase
- Locally creates a deployment / pod with the local metrics agent container
In addition to running all go tests via the make step make test, make test-e2e-all runs end to end tests by spinning up a kind cluster, building the metrics agent, deploying it to the reference clusters, then testing the collected data. The use of kind requires a local docker daemon to be running.