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Kubernetes Containers

Kubernetes Containers

Plugin: cgroups.plugin Module: /sys/fs/cgroup

Overview

Monitor Containers for performance, resource usage, and health status.

This collector is supported on all platforms.

This collector supports collecting metrics from multiple instances of this integration, including remote instances.

Default Behavior

Auto-Detection

This integration doesn’t support auto-detection.

Limits

The default configuration for this integration does not impose any limits on data collection.

Performance Impact

The default configuration for this integration is not expected to impose a significant performance impact on the system.

Setup

Prerequisites

No action required.

Configuration

File

There is no configuration file.

Options

There are no configuration options.

Examples

There are no configuration examples.

Metrics

Metrics grouped by scope.

The scope defines the instance that the metric belongs to. An instance is uniquely identified by a set of labels.

Per k8s cgroup

Labels:

Label Description
k8s_namespace TBD
k8s_pod_name TBD
k8s_pod_uid TBD
k8s_controller_kind TBD
k8s_controller_name TBD
k8s_node_name TBD
k8s_container_name TBD
k8s_container_id TBD
k8s_kind TBD
k8s_qos_class TBD
k8s_cluster_id TBD

Metrics:

Metric Dimensions Unit
k8s.cgroup.cpu_limit used percentage
k8s.cgroup.cpu user, system percentage
k8s.cgroup.cpu_per_core a dimension per core percentage
k8s.cgroup.throttled throttled percentage
k8s.cgroup.throttled_duration duration ms
k8s.cgroup.cpu_shares shares shares
k8s.cgroup.mem cache, rss, swap, rss_huge, mapped_file MiB
k8s.cgroup.writeback dirty, writeback MiB
k8s.cgroup.mem_activity in, out MiB/s
k8s.cgroup.pgfaults pgfault, swap MiB/s
k8s.cgroup.mem_usage ram, swap MiB
k8s.cgroup.mem_usage_limit available, used MiB
k8s.cgroup.mem_utilization utilization percentage
k8s.cgroup.mem_failcnt failures count
k8s.cgroup.io read, write KiB/s
k8s.cgroup.serviced_ops read, write operations/s
k8s.cgroup.throttle_io read, write KiB/s
k8s.cgroup.throttle_serviced_ops read, write operations/s
k8s.cgroup.queued_ops read, write operations
k8s.cgroup.merged_ops read, write operations/s
k8s.cgroup.cpu_some_pressure some10, some60, some300 percentage
k8s.cgroup.cpu_some_pressure_stall_time time ms
k8s.cgroup.cpu_full_pressure some10, some60, some300 percentage
k8s.cgroup.cpu_full_pressure_stall_time time ms
k8s.cgroup.memory_some_pressure some10, some60, some300 percentage
k8s.cgroup.memory_some_pressure_stall_time time ms
k8s.cgroup.memory_full_pressure some10, some60, some300 percentage
k8s.cgroup.memory_full_pressure_stall_time time ms
k8s.cgroup.io_some_pressure some10, some60, some300 percentage
k8s.cgroup.io_some_pressure_stall_time time ms
k8s.cgroup.io_full_pressure some10, some60, some300 percentage
k8s.cgroup.io_full_pressure_stall_time time ms

Per k8s cgroup network device

Labels:

Label Description
device TBD
interface_type TBD
k8s_namespace TBD
k8s_pod_name TBD
k8s_pod_uid TBD
k8s_controller_kind TBD
k8s_controller_name TBD
k8s_node_name TBD
k8s_container_name TBD
k8s_container_id TBD
k8s_kind TBD
k8s_qos_class TBD
k8s_cluster_id TBD

Metrics:

Metric Dimensions Unit
k8s.cgroup.net_net received, sent kilobits/s
k8s.cgroup.net_packets received, sent, multicast pps
k8s.cgroup.net_errors inbound, outbound errors/s
k8s.cgroup.net_drops inbound, outbound errors/s
k8s.cgroup.net_fifo receive, transmit errors/s
k8s.cgroup.net_compressed receive, sent pps
k8s.cgroup.net_events frames, collisions, carrier events/s
k8s.cgroup.net_operstate up, down, notpresent, lowerlayerdown, testing, dormant, unknown state
k8s.cgroup.net_carrier up, down state
k8s.cgroup.net_mtu mtu octets

Alerts

The following alerts are available:

Alert name On metric Description
k8s_cgroup_10min_cpu_usage k8s.cgroup.cpu_limit average cgroup CPU utilization over the last 10 minutes
k8s_cgroup_ram_in_use k8s.cgroup.mem_usage cgroup memory utilization
k8s_cgroup_1m_received_packets_rate k8s.cgroup.net_packets average number of packets received by the network interface ${label:device} over the last minute
k8s_cgroup_10s_received_packets_storm k8s.cgroup.net_packets ratio of average number of received packets for the network interface ${label:device} over the last 10 seconds, compared to the rate over the last minute

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