Today’s enterprises are adopting Kubernetes at a rapid pace to speed up the development process and build and deploy modern applications at scale. But we’ve seen many clusters being built and assigned to different teams and environments, which makes it difficult for operations teams to secure, manage, and monitor those clusters. And so when Day 1 of operations comes around, they might find themselves asking the following questions: How do I ensure that my Kubernetes clusters are running smoothly? How can my team gain visibility into the apps and services that are running in those clusters?
Today, we are excited to announce a new capability that gives platform teams full control over managing each cluster in their Kubernetes environment.
Since the integration release of Tanzu Mission Control and Tanzu Observability at VMworld 2020, platform operators and developers have gained full-stack visibility into the applications and services that run in their Kubernetes environments. Tanzu Mission Control is a centralized management platform for consistently operating and securing Kubernetes infrastructure and applications across multiple teams and clouds. With direct access to the Tanzu Observability platform through the Tanzu Mission Control UI, Kubernetes operators can instantly gain deep insights into the health, performance, and availability of individual clusters. This deeper-level visibility dramatically reduces the cost of troubleshooting, enabling teams to quickly scope and isolate issues in a single cluster and understand the impact of an incident across all clusters.
Now, you can customize the configuration of the Tanzu Observability collector to specify which Kubernetes metrics to collect. Using the collector configuration, you can also specify auto-discovery rules for collecting metrics from Prometheus, along with various apps and services that are running in your Kubernetes environment. You can make updates to the Tanzu Observability collector configuration at any time, with the option to revert back to its default as needed.
To learn more about the Tanzu Observability integration in Tanzu Mission Control, including how to get set up, read this documentation. Once you have set up the Tanzu Observability integration for a desired Kubernetes cluster, you can click on the menu icon next to the Tanzu Observability (Wavefront) integration in the Integrations panel to see the collector configuration option.
You will see the current collector configuration details, as shown below. You can edit directly into the window or copy the current configuration and edit somewhere else to paste later.
Make sure to save your changes. Tanzu Mission Control will queue the changes to be picked up by the cluster agent, so it will take a few minutes for the collector to pick up the configuration changes.
Once the data is in Tanzu Observability, Kubernetes operators can observe the health, performance, and availability of individual clusters by gathering core Kubernetes metrics and alert other operators or developers about critical KPIs to meet their business needs.
To test out the integration, contact our sales team for a Tanzu Mission Control trial. In the meantime, get started with a free Tanzu Observability trial today.
