Kubernetes and App Service Monitoring

Kubernetes and App Service Monitoring provides visibility into your Kubernetes® infrastructure and services for Application Performance Monitoring (APM).

Kubernetes and App Service Monitoring allows you to:

Gain visibility into key Kubernetes metrics from various entities such as clusters, namespaces, workloads, pods, and ingress controllers.
Monitor hardware metrics from the server OS such as CPU and memory utilization, throughput on network interfaces, and disk and network I/O.
Correlate your Kubernetes infrastructure entities with your public cloud assets such as compute, storage, and load balancer, as well as APM services.
Track resource usage of pods relative to the defined requests and limits.
Visualize your large-scale Kubernetes clusters (1000s of pods and containers).
Monitor the Kubernetes events and application logs within your cluster.
Diagnose issues that may prevent uptime or obstruct scalability, such as:
- Issues related to resource allocation and configuration
- Pod failures and restarts
- Node starvation
- Pending or stuck pods
- Excessively high rates of reads/writes on a specific disk or partition

In addition, Kubernetes and App Service Monitoring supports:

Auto-instrumentation of services using the OpenTelemetry™ Operator deployed by the appdynamics-operators Helm chart.
Installing, upgrading, and deleting Kubernetes-related agents using the Cisco AppDynamics Smart Agent.

Component Overview

Cisco AppDynamics provides Helm charts that deploy the following components:

Collectors

Collector	Usage
Cluster Collector	Collects Kubernetes data.
Infrastructure Collector	Collects server and container data, known as Host Monitoring.
Log Collector	Collects logs.
Cisco AppDynamics Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector	Receives OTLP data from the Infrastructure Collector, Cluster Collector, and Log Collector. Collects data from the applications that are instrumented using OpenTelemetry Operator for Kubernetes tracer SDKs/Agents or any other OTLP sources over gRPC and HTTP, and exports that data to Cisco AppDynamics.

Operators

Operator	Usage
AppDynamics Operator	These two operators are responsible for the life cycle management of `appdynamics-collectors` and allow you to inject and configure OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation libraries. Currently, Java, NodeJS, and Python are supported for auto-injection.
OpenTelemetry Operator for Kubernetes
Cisco AppDynamics Smart Agent	This operator is responsible for the life cycle management of Kubernetes-related agents.

Next Steps

Cisco Cloud Observability supports the following installation methods for Kubernetes and App Service Monitoring:

Environment	Documentation	Description
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Azure Kubernetes Service Google Kubernetes Engine Red Hat OpenShift	Quick Start Guide: Kubernetes and App Service Monitoring	A quick start guide for the traditional installation process, which requires manually accessing the Kubernetes cluster and using Helm chart commands.
	Install Kubernetes and App Service Monitoring with Helm Charts	The traditional installation process, which requires manually accessing the Kubernetes cluster and using Helm chart commands.
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service	Use the Cisco Cloud Observability Amazon EKS Blueprints Add-On	Partially automates the installation process using Terraform. Requires using Helm chart commands.
Spectro Cloud Palette	Install Kubernetes and App Service Monitoring with Spectro Cloud Palette	Automates the installation process using add-on packs in the Spectro Cloud Palette UI. Does not require manually accessing the Kubernetes cluster or using Helm chart commands.

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