Kubernetes Complete Observability: Basic Configuration

Coralogix’s Kubernetes Complete Observability provides a comprehensive solution for full-stack observability in your Kubernetes environment.

Overview

View all of your nodes, pods and cluster metrics, pod logs, Kubernetes events, and your distributed traces pipeline. Take advantage of our Kubernetes Dashboard using our pre-configured OpenTelemetry Collector.

Utilizing OpenTelemetry, we ensure seamless and automated data collection from various components of your stack. This enables you to monitor infrastructure health and gain insights into application behavior and inter-service dependencies. Troubleshoot issues, optimize performance and manage your cluster more effectively with a 360-degree view of your Kubernetes ecosystem.

Prerequisites

• Kubernetes (v1.24+) installed, with the command-line tool kubectl
• Helm (v3.9+) installed and configured

Note! If you have previously installed the Coralogix Exporter or Kubernetes Infrastructure Monitoring, they must be removed before proceeding with this integration.

Installation

STEP 1. In your Coralogix toolbar, navigate to Data Flow > Integrations.

STEP 2. From the Integrations section, select Kubernetes Complete Observability.

STEP 3. On the Coralogix OpenTelemetry Collector integration page, click + SETUP COLLECTOR.

STEP 4. Enter a name for your integration.

STEP 5. Enter one of your Send-Your-Data API keys or click CREATE NEW KEY to generate a new dedicated API key.

STEP 6. Click NEXT.

STEP 7. Check the Helm version by using the helm version command. You are required to use Helm v3.9 or above.

STEP 8. Add the Coralogix Helm repository to your Helm configuration by copying and running the command.

Run the command helm repo update to update Helm’s local repository cache.

Click NEXT.

STEP 9. OpenTelemetry Agent requires a secret called coralogix-keys with the Send-Your-Data API key created in STEP 5. It is defined as PRIVATE_KEY inside the same namespace in which the chart is installed. If the secret is not present, create it by copying and running the command shown in the installer.

STEP 10. Copy and run the helm upgrade command shown in the installer. Make sure you replace the <cluster name> with your Kubernetes cluster name.

STEP 11. Mark the checkbox to confirm you have run the Helm command. Click COMPLETE.

Limits & Quotas

• Coralogix places a hard limit of 10MB of data to our OpenTelemetry Endpoints, with a recommendation of 2MB.
• Metric names must be a maximum of 255 characters.
• Attribute keys for metric data must be a maximum of 255 characters.

Next Steps

Advanced configuration instructions can be found here.

Validation instructions can be found here.

Additional Resources

Support

Need help?

Our world-class customer success team is available 24/7 to walk you through your setup and answer any questions that may come up.

Feel free to reach out to us via our in-app chat or by sending us an email at [email protected].