003-monitoring.md

Monitoring

Notes

At this point, you should have an AKS cluster fully deployed and the Red Dog application up and running in your subscription.

Azure Monitor Requirements

Azure Monitor / Log Analytics Workspace resource should reside in your resource group and in the same Azure region.

Tasks:

You have 2 options for monitoring in this workshop:

Azure Monitor

1. Create a log analytics workspace
2. Enable container insights on your cluster with aforementioned WorkspaceId

Prometheus & Grafana

1. Install/Deploy Prometheus/Grafana
2. Apply the privileged pod policy at the cluster level
3. Test the policy is operating as expected

Useful links

• Enable monitoring for an existing AKS cluster
• kube-prometheus github
• kube-prometheus customizations
• Configure distributed tracing with App Insights