I recently had a requirement to collect Kubernetes’ external network access. So I set up and tried out some related projects. This post is mainly about how to install Kindling and configure Grafana to view Kubernetes network connection data. 1. What Is Kindling Kindling solves the problem of how to observe the network without intruding on the application; its functionality is mainly achieved by exposing kernel events for observation.

1. Why kube-status-metrics is needed Kubernetes monitoring mainly focuses on two kinds of metrics: Basic performance metrics CPU, memory, disk, network, and so on. These can be collected by deploying node-exporter as a DaemonSet and having Prometheus scrape the relevant metrics. Resource object metrics The replica count of a Deployment, the running state of a Pod, and so on.

The Prometheus community moves so fast that some of the documents I wrote earlier have become outdated. I’ve recently started paying attention to observability again, filling in some of the gaps in my operations knowledge. 1. Terminology Grafana A visualization tool that provides a variety of visualization panels and supports many data sources, including Prometheus, OpenTSDB, MySQL, and others.

1. Kubectl Basic Commands 1.1 Creating Objects 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 # Create resources; a remote URL also works kubectl create -f ./my.yaml # Create resources from multiple files kubectl create -f ./my1.yaml -f ./my2.yaml # Create resources using all manifest files in a directory kubectl create -f .