Overview

The Kubernetes integration version 2 has some different settings and requirements than version 3. This document goes over the settings that are different from version 3 and that you'll need for version 2. If we don't specify anything different, you can use the settings for version 3.

Caution

New Relic has deprecated version 2 and recommends against using it. We maintain this documentation for users who are still using version 2 even though we no longer support it.

See Introduction to the Kubernetes integration to get started with the current version of Kubernetes.

To understand version 3 changes, see the Changes introduced in the Kubernetes integration version 3 document.

Monitoring control plane with integration version 2

This section covers how to configure control plane monitoring on versions 2 and earlier of the integration.

Please note that these versions had a less flexible autodiscovery options, and did not support external endpoints. We strongly recommend you to update to version 3 at your earliest convenience.

Autodiscovery and default configuration: `hostNetwork` and `privileged`

In versions lower than v3, when the integration is deployed using privileged: false, the hostNetwork setting for the control plane component will be also be set to false.

Discovery of control plane nodes and control plane components

The Kubernetes integration relies on the kubeadm labeling conventions to discover the control plane nodes and the control plane components. This means that control plane nodes should be labeled with node-role.kubernetes.io/control-plane="".

The control plane components should have either the k8s-app or the tier and component labels. See this table for accepted label combinations and values:

Component	Label	Endpoint
API server	Kubeadm / Kops / ClusterAPI `k8s-app=kube-apiserver` `tier=control-plane component=kube-apiserver` OpenShift `app=openshift-kube-apiserver apiserver=true`	`localhost:443/metrics` by default (can be configured) if the request fails falls back to `localhost:8080/metrics`
etcd	Kubeadm / Kops / ClusterAPI `k8s-app=etcd-manager-main` `tier=control-plane component=etcd` OpenShift `k8s-app=etcd`	`localhost:4001/metrics`
Scheduler	Kubeadm / Kops / ClusterAPI `k8s-app=kube-scheduler` `tier=control-plane component=kube-scheduler` OpenShift `app=openshift-kube-scheduler scheduler=true`	`localhost:10251/metrics`
Controller manager	Kubeadm / Kops / ClusterAPI `k8s-app=kube-controller-manager` `tier=control-plane component=kube-controller-manager` OpenShift `app=kube-controller-manager kube-controller-manager=true`	`localhost:10252/metrics`

When the integration detects that it's running inside a control plane node, it tries to find which components are running on the node by looking for pods that match the labels listed in the table above. For every running component, the integration makes a request to its metrics endpoint.

Configuration

Control plane monitoring is automatic for agents running inside control plane nodes. The only component that requires an extra step to run is etcd, because it uses mutual TLS authentication (mTLS) for client requests. The API Server can also be configured to be queried using the Secure Port.

Important

Control plane monitoring for OpenShift 4.x requires additional configuration. For more information, see the OpenShift 4.x Configuration section.

etcd

In order to set mTLS for querying etcd, you need to set these two configuration options:

Option	Value
`ETCD_TLS_SECRET_NAME`	Name of a Kubernetes secret that contains the mTLS configuration. The secret should contain the following keys: `cert`: the certificate that identifies the client making the request. It should be signed by an etcd trusted CA. `key`: the private key used to generate the client certificate. `cacert`: the root CA used to identify the etcd server certificate. If the `ETCD_TLS_SECRET_NAME` option is not set, etcd metrics won't be fetched.
`ETCD_TLS_SECRET_NAMESPACE`	The namespace where the secret specified in the `ETCD_TLS_SECRET_NAME` was created. If not set, the `default` namespace is used.

Option

Value

ETCD_TLS_SECRET_NAME

Name of a Kubernetes secret that contains the mTLS configuration.

The secret should contain the following keys:

cert: the certificate that identifies the client making the request. It should be signed by an etcd trusted CA.
key: the private key used to generate the client certificate.
cacert: the root CA used to identify the etcd server certificate.
If the ETCD_TLS_SECRET_NAME option is not set, etcd metrics won't be fetched.

ETCD_TLS_SECRET_NAMESPACE

The namespace where the secret specified in the ETCD_TLS_SECRET_NAME was created. If not set, the default namespace is used.

API server

By default, the API server metrics are queried using the localhost:8080 unsecured endpoint. If this port is disabled, you can also query these metrics over the secure port. To enable this, set the following configuration option in the Kubernetes integration manifest file:

Option	Value
`API_SERVER_ENDPOINT_URL`	The (secure) URL to query the metrics. The API server uses `localhost:443` by default Ensure that the `ClusterRole` has been updated to the newest version found in the manifest Added in version 1.15.0

Option

Value

API_SERVER_ENDPOINT_URL

The (secure) URL to query the metrics. The API server uses localhost:443 by default

Ensure that the ClusterRole has been updated to the newest version found in the manifest

Added in version 1.15.0

Important

Note that the port can be different according to the secure port used by the API server.

For example, in Minikube the API server secure port is 8443 and therefore API_SERVER_ENDPOINT_URL should be set to https://localhost:8443

OpenShift configuration

Control plane components on OpenShift 4.x use endpoint URLs that require SSL and service account based authentication. Therefore, you can't use the default endpoint URLs.

Important

When installing openshift through Helm, specify the configuration to automatically include these endpoints. Setting openshift.enabled=true and openshift.version="4.x" will include the secure endpoints and enable the /var/run/crio.sock runtime.

To configure control plane monitoring on OpenShift, uncomment the following environment variables in the customized manifest. URL values are pre-configured to the default base URLs for the control plane monitoring metrics endpoints in OpenShift 4.x.

- name: "SCHEDULER_ENDPOINT_URL"
        value: "https://localhost:10259
        - name: "ETCD_ENDPOINT_URL"
        value: "https://localhost:9979"
        - name: "CONTROLLER_MANAGER_ENDPOINT_URL"
        value: "https://localhost:10257"
        - name: "API_SERVER_ENDPOINT_URL"
        value: "https://localhost:6443"

Important

Even though the custom ETCD_ENDPOINT_URL is defined, etcd requires HTTPS and mTLS authentication to be configured. For more on configuring mTLS for etcd in OpenShift, see Set up mTLS for etcd in OpenShift.

Kubernetes logs

If you want to generate verbose logs and get version and configuration information, just check out the info below.

For the Kubernetes integration, the infrastructure agent only adds a log entry in the event of an error. Most common errors are displayed in the standard (non-verbose) logs. If you're doing a more in-depth investigation on your own or with New Relic Support, you can enable verbose mode.

Caution

Verbose mode significantly increases the amount of info sent to log files. Only enable this mode temporarily for troubleshooting purposes, and reset the log level when finished.

To enable verbose logging using a manifest file:

Enable verbose logging: In the deployment file, set the value of NRIA_VERBOSE to 1.
Apply the modified configuration by running:
bash
```
$kubectl apply -f your_newrelic_k8s.yaml
```
Leave on verbose mode for a few minutes, or until enough activity has occurred.
Disable verbose mode: Set the NRIA_VERBOSE value back to 0.
Apply the restored configuration by running:
bash
```
$kubectl apply -f your_newrelic_k8s.yaml
```
Get a list of nodes in the environment:
bash
```
$kubectl get nodes --all-namespaces
```

Get a list of infrastructure and kube-state-metrics pods:

bash

$kubectl get pods --all-namespaces -o wide | egrep 'newrelic|kube-state-metrics'

Get logs from the pods connecting to kube-state-metrics.
Retrieve kube-state-metrics service configuration.

For the Kubernetes integration, the infrastructure agent only adds a log entry in the event of an error. Most common errors are displayed in the standard (non-verbose) logs. If you are doing a more in-depth investigation on your own or with New Relic Support, you can enable verbose mode.

Caution

Verbose mode significantly increases the amount of info sent to log files. Only enable this mode temporarily for troubleshooting purposes, and reset the log level when finished.

To enable verbose logging using Helm:

Run this command:

bash

$helm upgrade -n <namespace> --reuse-values newrelic-bundle --set newrelic-infrastructure.verboseLog=true newrelic/nri-bundle

Leave on verbose mode for a few minutes, or until enough activity has occurred.

When you have the information you need, disable verbose logging:

bash

$helm upgrade --reuse-values newrelic-bundle --set newrelic-infrastructure.verboseLog=false newrelic/nri-bundle

Apply the restored configuration by running:
bash
```
$kubectl apply -f your_newrelic_k8s.yaml
```
Get a list of nodes in the environment:
bash
```
$kubectl get nodes --all-namespaces
```

Get a list of infrastructure and kube-state-metrics pods:

bash

$kubectl get pods --all-namespaces -o wide | egrep 'newrelic|kube-state-metrics'

Get logs from the pods connecting to kube-state-metrics.
Retrieve kube-state-metrics service configuration.

To get the logs from pods connecting to kube-state-metrics:

Run this command:

bash

$kubectl get pods --all-namespaces -o wide | grep kube-state-metrics

Look for output similar to this:

bash

$kube-system   kube-state-metrics-5c6f5cb9b5-pclhh     2/2
$    Running   4          4d        172.17.0.3   minikube

Get the New Relic pods that are running on the same node as kube-state-metrics:

bash

$kubectl describe node minikube | grep newrelic-infra

Look for output similar to this:

bash

$default                    newrelic-infra-5wcv6                     100m (5%)
$0 (0%)      100Mi (5%)       100Mi (5%)

Retrieve the logs for the nodes by running:
bash
```
$kubectl logs newrelic-infra-5wcv6
```

To get the logs from a pod running on a control plane node:

Get the nodes that are labelled as control plane:

bash

$kubectl get nodes -l node-role.kubernetes.io/control-plane=""

Look for output similar to this:

bash

$NAME                         STATUS  ROLES          AGE   VERSION
$ip-10-42-24-4.ec2.internal   Ready   control-plane  42d   v1.14.8

Get the New Relic pods that are running on one of the nodes returned in the previous step:

bash

$kubectl get pods --field-selector spec.nodeName=ip-10-42-24-4.ec2.internal -l name=newrelic-infra --all-namespaces

Look for output similar to this:

bash

$newrelic-infra-whvzt

Retrieve the logs for the nodes by running this command:
bash
```
$kubectl logs newrelic-infra-whvzt
```

Monitor services running on Kubernetes

Monitoring services in Kubernetes works by leveraging our infrastructure agent and on-host integrations and an autodiscovery mechanism to point them to pods with a specified selector.

Check the Enable monitoring of services using the Helm Chart doc to know how to do it. Check out this example for version 2, which shows the yaml config for the Redis integration added to the values.yml file of the nri-bundle chart.

newrelic-infrastructure:
    integrations_config:
    - name: nri-redis.yaml
    data:
    discovery:
    command:
    # Run NRI Discovery for Kubernetes
    # https://github.com/newrelic/nri-discovery-kubernetes
    exec: /var/db/newrelic-infra/nri-discovery-kubernetes --tls --port 10250
    match:
    label.app: redis
    integrations:
    - name: nri-redis
    env:
    # using the discovered IP as the hostname address
    HOSTNAME: ${discovery.ip}
    PORT: 6379
    labels:
    env: test

Add a service YAML to the Kubernetes integration config

If you're using Kubernetes integration version 2, you need to add an entry for this ConfigMap in the volumes and volumeMounts section of the DaemonSet's spec, to ensure all the files in the ConfigMap are mounted in /etc/newrelic-infra/integrations.d/.

Caution

Monitoring control plane with integration version 2

Autodiscovery and default configuration: `hostNetwork` and `privileged`

Discovery of control plane nodes and control plane components

Configuration

Important

etcd

API server

Important

OpenShift configuration

Important

Important

Kubernetes logs

Enable verbose logging using a manifest file

Caution

Enable verbose logging using Helm

Caution

Get logs from pods connecting to kube-state-metrics

Get logs from a pod running on a control plane node

Monitor services running on Kubernetes

Add a service YAML to the Kubernetes integration config

Overview

Caution

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Autodiscovery and default configuration: hostNetwork and privileged

Discovery of control plane nodes and control plane components

Configuration

Important

etcd

API server

Important

OpenShift configuration

Important

Important

Kubernetes logs

Enable verbose logging using Helm

Get logs from pods connecting to kube-state-metrics

Get logs from a pod running on a control plane node

Monitor services running on Kubernetes

Add a service YAML to the Kubernetes integration config

Monitoring control plane with integration version 2

Autodiscovery and default configuration: `hostNetwork` and `privileged`