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Configuring Prometheus to Use Service Discovery

Recently, your team has deployed Prometheus to the companies Kubernetes cluster. Now it is time to use service discovery to find targets for cAdvisor and the Kubernetes API. You have been tasked with modifying the Prometheus Config Map that is used to create the `prometheus.yml` file. Create the scrape config and add the jobs for `kubernetes-apiservers` and `kubernetes-cadvisor`. Then, propagate the changes to the Prometheus pod.

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Path Info

Level

Intermediate

Duration

1h 0m

Published

Jan 21, 2019

Challenge

Configure the Service Discovery Targets

Prepare the environment and create the monitoring namespace as below:

sudo su -
cd /root/prometheus
./bootstrap.sh
kubectl get pods -n monitoring

Edit prometheus-config-map.yml and add in the two service discovery targets:

vi prometheus-config-map.yml

When we're done, the whole file should look like this:

apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  name: prometheus-server-conf
  labels:
    name: prometheus-server-conf
  namespace: monitoring
data:
  prometheus.yml: |-
    global:
      scrape_interval: 5s
      evaluation_interval: 5s

    scrape_configs:
      - job_name: 'kubernetes-apiservers'

        kubernetes_sd_configs:
        - role: endpoints
        scheme: https

        tls_config:
          ca_file: /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/ca.crt
        bearer_token_file: /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token

        relabel_configs:
        - source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_namespace, __meta_kubernetes_service_name, __meta_kubernetes_endpoint_port_name]
          action: keep
          regex: default;kubernetes;https

      - job_name: 'kubernetes-cadvisor'

        scheme: https

        tls_config:
          ca_file: /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/ca.crt
        bearer_token_file: /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token

        kubernetes_sd_configs:
        - role: node

        relabel_configs:
        - action: labelmap
          regex: __meta_kubernetes_node_label_(.+)
        - target_label: __address__
          replacement: kubernetes.default.svc:443
        - source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_node_name]
          regex: (.+)
          target_label: __metrics_path__
          replacement: /api/v1/nodes/${1}/proxy/metrics/cadvisor

Challenge

Apply the Changes to the Prometheus Configuration Map
Now, apply the changes that were made to prometheus-config-map.yml:
```
kubectl apply -f prometheus-config-map.yml
```
Challenge

Delete the Prometheus Pod
1. List the pods to find the name of the Prometheus pod:
```
kubectl get pods -n monitoring
```
1. Delete the Prometheus pod:
```
kubectl delete pods <POD_NAME> -n monitoring
```
1. Open up a new web browser tab, and navigate to the Expression browser. This will be at the public IP of the lab server, on port 8080:
```
http://<IP>:8080
```
1. Click on Status, and select Target from the dropdown. We should see two targets in there.

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