Automated Observability

    KubeVela has made the observability as first class citizen, it includes the following three aspects.

    To help users build their own observability system from scratch with just one click, KubeVela provides a list of addons, including

    Metrics

    • : A server records metrics in time series with flexible queries supported.
    • : A metrics collector for the Kubernetes system.
    • : A metrics collector for the running Kubernetes nodes.

    Logging

    Dashboard

    • : A web application that provides analytics and interactive visualizations.

    After these addons enabled, out-of-box dashboard will be generated with real time data collecting.

    OAM, as a unified application model, can adopt observability easily as operational traits. As a result, KubeVela also provides several traits for application observability. Once end users added these traits in their app, the data will be collected, delivered and finally shown on the grafana dashboard.

    More than that, you can easily define your own observability traits with CUE.

    The ability of KubeVela to support the application observability is all completed through the IaC (Infrastructure as Code) method, which also means that KubeVela has glued from the collection of indicators (including logs), analysis, enrichment, storage, data source registration, all the way to visualization by using IaC.

    Based on the IaC system powered by CUE, KubeVela has encapsulated common functions such as creating data sources, creating large disks, and importing large disks. You can use them directly without learning the details. If you want to do some customization, you can also orchestrate your process in a similar way through CUE, and customize the observability for your platform.

    In the following documents, we will expand the above in detail one by one.

    • Out-of-Box Dashboards: Guide for how to use pre-installed dashboards to monitor your system and applications.

    • : Guide for how to customize the log collecting rules for your application.

    • Customize Dashboard: Guide for creating your customized dashboards for applications.

    • : Guide for integrating your existing infrastructure to KubeVela, when you already have Prometheus or Grafana before installing addons.

    Last updated on Feb 9, 2023 by dependabot[bot]