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Kubernetes for Developers

You're reading from  Kubernetes for Developers

Product type Book
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788834759
Pages 374 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Joseph Heck Joseph Heck
Profile icon Joseph Heck

Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
1. Setting Up Kubernetes for Development 2. Packaging Your Code to Run in Kubernetes 3. Interacting with Your Code in Kubernetes 4. Declarative Infrastructure 5. Pod and Container Lifecycles 6. Background Processing in Kubernetes 7. Monitoring and Metrics 8. Logging and Tracing 9. Integration Testing 10. Troubleshooting Common Problems and Next Steps 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Using Prometheus to view application metrics


While you could add a job within Prometheus to include the configuration to scrape Prometheus metrics from a specific endpoint, the installation we did earlier includes a configuration that will update what it is looking at dynamically, based on annotations on pods. One of the benefits of Prometheus is that it has support for automatically detecting changes in your cluster, based on annotations, and it can look up the endpoints for the pods that back a service.

Since we deployed Prometheus using Helm, you can find the relevant configuration embedded within the values.yaml file. Look for the Prometheus job kubernetes-service-endpoints, and you will find both the configuration and some documentation of how it can be used. If you don't have the files locally, you can view this configuration at https://github.com/kubernetes/charts/blob/master/stable/prometheus/values.yaml#L747-L776.

This configuration looks for services within the cluster that have...

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