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Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 11: Application Monitoring

05.03.2018 by William Lam // Leave a Comment

In this blog post, we will take a look at using VMware Wavefront, a recent acquisition, that is a leading SaaS based metrics and monitoring solutions for Cloud Native Applications. Wavefront supports monitoring Kuberenetes (K8S) and many other applications, but what is really neat about Wavefront is that it not only does it give us deeper metrics about our K8S infrastructure (cluster, pod, namespaces and containers), but it can also be used to help developers instrument their application for metric collection and monitoring and provide a complete end-to-end view. The Wavefront team also recently published this blog post which has a nice video demo of their integration with VMware PKS.

If you missed any of the previous articles, you can find the complete list here:

  • Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 1: Overview
  • Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 2: PKS Client
  • Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 3: NSX-T
  • Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 4: Ops Manager & BOSH
  • Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 5: PKS Control Plane
  • Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 6: Kubernetes Go!
  • Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 7: Harbor
  • Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 8: Monitoring Tool Overview
  • Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 9: Logging
  • Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 10: Infrastructure Monitoring
  • Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 11: Application Monitoring
  • vGhetto Automated Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Lab Deployment

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Categories // Cloud Native, Kubernetes Tags // BOSH, Kubernetes, PCF, Pivotal, PKS, Wavefront

Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 8: Monitoring Tool Overview

04.24.2018 by William Lam // 1 Comment

I had received a few questions about the monitoring capabilities for VMware PKS and some of the VMware tools that can help provide visibility and audibility of the platform. Different consumers of PKS will care about different things, as you can imagine the cloud admin/platform operator is primarily concerned with the underlying infrastructure (compute, storage, network) including the PKS Management components. Developers want to know how their application is doing and if there are any issues, how to quickly access the information they need to debug and fix the problem.

Logging

Complete end-to-end logging is a mandatory requirement for many customers, especially when it comes to dealing with large and complex application deployments. Being able to provide centralized access of all logs to both operators and developers is key to be able to quickly triage and resolve an issue. Remote syslog can be configured throughout the PKS stack from the infrastructure and going all the way up to the application if developers decides to instrument logging and sending it to the same syslog target. VMware customers can take advantage of vRealize Log Insight (vSphere customers receive 25 free OSI licenses) which is a on-premises log management solution. If you prefer a SaaS-based solution, VMware also has Log Intelligence which can be used to service both premises infrastructure as well as other cloud hosted deployments.

Infrastructure Monitoring

For Cloud Admins/Platform Operators, vRealize Operations Manager (vROPs) will be the tool of choice which many of our customers are already familiar with. vROps provides analytics, capacity management and alerting for all of your underlying compute, storage and networking infrastructure. This information can be trended over time and provide help proactive identify any anomalies within the infrastructure before they arise. There are a number of Management Packs that can be used to provide easy to consume and out of the box dashboards such as vSphere which gives you information about your vCenter Server and the ESXi hypervisor, NSX-V as well as NSX-T for networking/security and core storage including VSAN.

Application Monitoring

Unlike traditional applications, Cloud Native Apps require a completely different way of monitoring to ensure Developers can easily access the important information they require for development purposes. VMware Wavefront is a SaaS-based solution that is metrics monitoring and analytics platform that can handle the high-scale requirements of modern cloud-native applications. Not only can Developers instrument their own applications and forward that to Wavefront, but Wavefront also provides complete visibility into a Kubernetes (K8S) deployment from namespaces, nodes, pods and all the way down to the individual containers.

Here is a diagram to help illustrate the visibility that each solution provides:


In the next three posts, I walk through the configuration steps to setup vRLI, vROPs and Wavefront with VMware PKS.

If you missed any of the previous articles, you can find the complete list here:

  • Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 1: Overview
  • Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 2: PKS Client
  • Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 3: NSX-T
  • Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 4: Ops Manager & BOSH
  • Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 5: PKS Control Plane
  • Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 6: Kubernetes Go!
  • Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 7: Harbor
  • Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 8: Monitoring Tool Overview
  • Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 9: Logging
  • Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 10: Infrastructure Monitoring
  • Getting started with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Part 11: Application Monitoring
  • vGhetto Automated Pivotal Container Service (PKS) Lab Deployment

Categories // Cloud Native, Kubernetes, vRealize Suite Tags // BOSH, cloud native apps, Harbor, Kubernetes, PCF, Pivotal, PKS, syslog, vRealize Log Insight, vRealize Operations Manager, Wavefront

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William Lam is a Senior Staff Solution Architect working in the VMware Cloud team within the Cloud Infrastructure Business Group (CIBG) at VMware. He focuses on Cloud Native technologies, Automation, Integration and Operation for the VMware Cloud based Software Defined Datacenters (SDDC)

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