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Monitoring Docker, OpenShift and Kubernetes - Version 5.1 (Network metrics and socket tables, prometheus autodiscovery)

September 17, 2018

We are bringing network metrics and socket tables with minor update Monitoring Docker, OpenShift and Kubernetes Version 5.1. This release also includes visual and usability improvements in application, performance and stability improvements in collector, and new configurations to dynamically discover metrics from Pods, exported in Prometheus format.

Network Metrics

Dashboards for Hosts, Host, Pods, Containers and Workloads includes network metrics: received and transmitted MB, Packets, Errors and Drops.

network metrics

Network socket table

Just network metrics do not give you a lot of visibility of how your containers communicate with each other or public network. Version 5.1 brings network socket tables, which can give you information about current connection established with the Host, Pod or Container, and list of the ports current container is listening on.

socket table

Network Review

Network socket tables allowed us to bring another security review dashboard, that allows you to find all the connection to outside world, or between the containers, pods, hosts or services.

network review

Forwarding Prometheus metrics from Pods

We are expanding annotations with support for collecting Prometheus metrics directly from the pods. If your Pod or container can export metrics in Prometheus format, and you want to see these metrics in Splunk, you can simple annotate them, and collector automatically will forward these metrics in Splunk.

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apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: nginx-pod
  annotations:
    collectord.io/prometheus.1-port: '9527'
    collectord.io/prometheus.1-path: '/metrics'
spec:
  containers:
  - name: nginx
    image: sophos/nginx-prometheus-metrics

To learn more about annotations, and forwarding Prometheus metrics from Pods, please read our documentation

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Installation instructions

docker, kubernetes, openshift, splunk, prometheus, network

About Outcold Solutions

Outcold Solutions provides solutions for monitoring Kubernetes, OpenShift and Docker clusters in Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud. We offer certified Splunk applications, which give you insights across all containers environments. We are helping businesses reduce complexity related to logging and monitoring by providing easy-to-use and deploy solutions for Linux and Windows containers. We deliver applications, which help developers monitor their applications and operators to keep their clusters healthy. With the power of Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud, we offer one solution to help you keep all the metrics and logs in one place, allowing you to quickly address complex questions on container performance.