monasca-agent/docker/README.rst

Docker images for Monasca Agent

There are two separate images for monasca-agent services: collector and forwarder. Collector is working best with services that allow remote access to them and to gather host level metrics collector will need to work together with cAdvisor service.

Building monasca-base image

See https://github.com/openstack/monasca-common/tree/master/docker/README.rst

Building Monasca Agent images

build_image.sh script in top level folder (docker/build_image.sh) is dummy script that will build both collector and forwarder images at once.

Example:

$ ./build_image.sh <repository_version> <upper_constrains_branch> <common_version>

Everything after ./build_image.sh is optional and by default configured to get versions from Dockerfile. ./build_image.sh also contain more detailed build description.

Environment variables

Variable	Default	Description
LOG_LEVEL	WARN	Python logging level
MONASCA_URL	http://monasca:8070/v2.0	Versioned Monasca API URL
FORWARDER_URL	http://localhost:17123	Monasca Agent Collector URL
KEYSTONE_DEFAULTS_ENABLED	true	Use all OS defaults
OS_AUTH_URL	http://keystone:35357/v3/	Versioned Keystone URL
OS_USERNAME	monasca-agent	Agent Keystone username
OS_PASSWORD	password	Agent Keystone password
OS_USER_DOMAIN_NAME	Default	Agent Keystone user domain
OS_PROJECT_NAME	mini-mon	Agent Keystone project name
OS_PROJECT_DOMAIN_NAME	Default	Agent Keystone project domain
HOSTNAME_FROM_KUBERNETES	false	Determine node hostname from Kubernetes
AUTORESTART	false	Auto Restart Monasca Agent Collector
COLLECTOR_RESTART_INTERVAL	24	Interval in hours to restart Monasca Agent Collector
STAY_ALIVE_ON_FAILURE	false	If true, container runs 2 hours after tests fail

Note that additional variables can be specified as well, see the agent.yaml.j2 for a definitive list in every image folder.

Note that the auto restart feature can be enabled if the agent collector has unchecked memory growth. The proper restart behavior must be enabled in Docker or Kubernetes if this feature is turned on.

Environment variables for self monitoring

Provide them to monasca agent collector container.

Variable	Default	Description
DOCKER	false	Monitor Docker
CADVISOR	false	Monitor Cadvisor
KUBERNETES	false	Monitor Kubernetes
KUBERNETES_API	false	Monitor Kubernetes API
PROMETHEUS	false	Monitor Prometheus
MONASCA_MONITORING	false	Monitor services for metrics pipeline
MONASCA_LOG_MONITORING	false	Monitor services for logs pipeline

Scripts

start.sh

In this starting script provide all steps that lead to the proper service start. Including usage of wait scripts and templating of configuration files. You also could provide the ability to allow running container after service died for easier debugging.

health_check.py

This file will be used for checking the status of the application.

Docker Plugin

This plugin is enabled when DOCKER=true. It has the following options:

• DOCKER_ROOT: The mounted host rootfs volume. Default: /host
• DOCKER_SOCKET: The mounted Docker socket. Default: /var/run/docker.sock

This plugin monitors Docker containers directly. It should only be used in a bare Docker environment (i.e. not Kubernetes), and requires two mounted volumes from the host:

• Host / mounted to /host (path configurable with DOCKER_ROOT)
• Host /var/run/docker.sock mounted to /var/run/docker.sock (path configurable with DOCKER_SOCKET)

Kubernetes Plugin

This plugin is enabled when KUBERNETES=true. It has the following options:

• KUBERNETES_TIMEOUT: The K8s API connection timeout. Default: 3
• KUBERNETES_NAMESPACE_ANNOTATIONS: If set, will grab annotations from namespaces to include as dimensions for metrics that are under that namespace. Should be passed in as 'annotation1,annotation2,annotation3'. Default: unset
• KUBERNETES_MINIMUM_WHITELIST: Sets whitelist on kubernetes plugin for the following metrics pod.cpu.total_time_sec, pod.mem.cache_bytes, pod.mem.swap_bytes, pod.mem.used_bytes, pod.mem.working_set_bytes. This will alleviate the amount of load on Monasca. Default: unset

The Kubernetes plugin is intended to be run as a DaemonSet on each Kubernetes node. In order for API endpoints to be detected correctly, AGENT_POD_NAME and AGENT_POD_NAMESPACE must be set using the Downward API as described above.

Kubernetes API Plugin

This plugin is enabled when KUBERNETES_API=true. It has the following options:

• KUBERNETES_API_HOST: If set, manually sets the location of the Kubernetes API host. Default: unset
• KUBERNETES_API_PORT: If set, manually sets the port for of the Kubernetes API host. Only used if KUBERNETES_API_HOST is also set. Default: 8080
• KUBERNETES_API_CUSTOM_LABELS: If set, provides a list of Kubernetes label keys to include as dimensions from gathered metrics. Labels should be comma separated strings, such as label1,label2,label3`. Theapp`` label is always included regardless of this value. Default: unset
• KUBERNETES_NAMESPACE_ANNOTATIONS: If set, will grab annotations from namespaces to include as dimensions for metrics that are under that namespace. Should be passed in as 'annotation1,annotation2,annotation3'. Default: unset
• REPORT_PERSISTENT_STORAGE: If set, will gather bound pvc per a storage class. Will be reported by namespace and cluster wide. Default: true
• STORAGE_PARAMETERS_DIMENSIONS: If set and report_persistent_storage is set, will grab storage class parameters as dimensions when reporting persistent storage. Should be passed in as 'parameter1,parameter2". Default: unset

The Kubernetes API plugin is intended to be run as a standalone deployment and will collect cluster-level metrics.

Prometheus Plugin

This plugin is enabled when PROMETHEUS=true. It has the following options:

• PROMETHEUS_TIMEOUT: The connection timeout. Default: 3
• PROMETHEUS_ENDPOINTS: A list of endpoints to scrape. If unset, they will be determined automatically via the Kubernetes API. See below for syntax. Default: unset
• PROMETHEUS_DETECT_METHOD: When endpoints are determined automatically, this specifies the resource type to scan, one of: pod, service. Default: pod
• PROMETHEUS_KUBERNETES_LABELS: When endpoints are determined automatically, this comma-separated list of labels will be included as dimensions (by name). Default: app

If desired, a static list of Prometheus endpoints can be provided by setting PROMETHEUS_ENDPOINTS. Entries in this list should be comma-separated. Additionally, each entry can specify a set of dimensions like so:

http://host-a/metrics,http://host-b/metrics|prop=value&prop2=value2,http://host-c

Note that setting PROMETHEUS_ENDPOINTS disables auto-detection.

When autodetection is enabled, this plugin will automatically scrape all annotated Prometheus endpoints on the node the agent is running on. Ideally, it should be run alongside the Kubernetes plugin as a DaemonSet on each node.

cAdvisor_host Plugin

This plugin is enabled when CADVISOR=true. It has the following options:

• CADVISOR_TIMEOUT: The connection timeout for the cAdvisor API. Default: 3
• CADVISOR_URL: If set, sets the URL at which to access cAdvisor. If unset, (default) the cAdvisor host will be determined automatically via the Kubernetes API.
• CADVISOR_MINIMUM_WHITELIST: Sets whitelist on cadvisor host plugin for the following metrics cpu.total_time_sec, mem.cache_bytes, mem.swap_bytes, mem.used_bytes, mem.working_set_bytes. This will alleviate the amount of load on Monasca. Default: unset

This plugin collects host-level metrics from a running cAdvisor instance. cAdvisor is included in kubelet when in Kubernetes environments and is necessary to retrieve host-level metrics. As with the Kubernetes plugin, AGENT_POD_NAME and AGENT_POD_NAMESPACE must be set to determine the URL automatically.

cAdvisor can be easily run in standard Docker environments or directly on host systems. In these cases, the URL must be manually provided via CADVISOR_URL.

Monasca-monitoring

Metrics pipeline

The monasca-monitoring enables plugins for HTTP endpoint check and processes. Additionally enables plugins for detailed metrics for the following components: Kafka, MySQL, and Zookeeper. This is enabled when MONASCA_MONITORING=true. The components use the default configuration. A user can specify own settings for them in docker-compose file. To customize those settings you can adjust the configuration of the components by passing environment variables:

Kafka

• KAFKA_CONNECT_STR: The kafka connection string. Default: kafka:9092

Zookeeper

• ZOOKEEPER_HOST: The zookeeper host name. Default: zookeeper
• ZOOKEEPER_PORT: The port to listen for client connections. Default: 2181

MySQL

• MYSQL_SERVER: The MySQL server name. Default: mysql
• MYSQL_USER, MYSQL_PASSWORD: These variables are used in conjunction to specify user and password for this user. Default: root and secretmysql
• MYSQL_PORT: The port to listen for client connections. Default: 3306

Logs pipeline

For logs pipeline you can enable HTTP endpoint check, process and Elasticsearch plugins. This is enabled when MONASCA_LOG_MONITORING=true. You can adjust the configuration of the components by passing environment variables:

Elasticsearch

• ELASTIC_URL: The Elasticsearch connection string. Default: http://elasticsearch:9200

Monasca-statsd

To monitor monasca-notifcation and monasca-log-api use statsd. Enable the statsd monitoring by setting up STATSD_HOST and STATSD_PORT environment variables in those projects.

Custom plugins

Custom plugin configuration files can be provided by mounting them to /plugins.d/*.yaml inside the container of monasca agent collector.

Plugins should have yaml extension when you don't need any templating. When they have yaml.j2 extension, they will be processed as Jinja2 templates with access to all environment variables.

Links

https://github.com/openstack/monasca-agent/blob/master/README.rst