Challenge 03 - AKS Monitoring

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Introduction

This challenge will cover monitoring in AKS, using open source components such as Prometheus and Azure services such as Azure Monitor.

Description

• Implement Prometheus/Grafana or Azure Container Insights to be able to monitor cluster metrics
• You can access container logs via Azure Monitor
• Increase the CPU utilization of the API container with the pi API endpoint, and see the corresponding metric increase in Prometheus and/or Azure Monitor
• Implement a mechanism so that Kubernetes increases the amount of API pods when CPU utilization goes high
• If you didn’t do it already, configure a mechanism that scales the cluster automatically in and out depending on the required capacity

Success Criteria

• You can display cluster metrics graphically
• You can show live container logs with Azure Container Insights
• Verify that the cluster auto-scales when there are not enough CPU resources
• Participants can explain the autoscaling event using AKS metrics

Learning Resources

These docs might help you achieving these objectives:

• AKS Overview
• Azure Monitor for Containers
• Prometheus
• HPA