...
Note!
You need to have a proper AKS cluster setup in order to proceed with these steps. Refer to Set Up Kubernetes Cluster - Azure (4.3) to create the OKE AKS cluster first.
| Insert excerpt | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
...
These tools give you powerful and flexible log collection, storage, monitoring and visualization. The Elasticsearch database storage also provides powerful tools to perform analytics on the log data. The Azure Log Analytics is a tool for querying monitoring logs built for DevOps engineers, developers, site reliability engineers (SREs), IT managers, and product owners. See the official user documentation for detailed information about these tools.
Prerequisite
| Insert excerpt | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
AKS Container Insights
You can collect, store and analyze logs and event data for container debugging purpose. To enable container insights, go to Home > your-cluster-name > Monitoring > Logs. Click Configure monitoring to proceed.
...
Azure Log Analytics
You can log data from Azure Monitor in a Log Analytics workspace. Azure provides an analysis engine and a rich query language. The logs show the context of any problems, and are useful for identifying root causes.
...
For more information, refer to Azure Log Analytics tutorial.
...
Stream Container Logs to Elastic Search and
...
Visualize with Kibana
| Note |
|---|
Important Note that you You must install Elastic Search, Fluent-bit and Kibana on the same namespace in order to allow working properly. These are some of the reasons:
Hence, in this guide we are using namespace 'logging' for the installations. |
Install Elastic Search
Elastic Search will be installed to the namespace logging
...
| Info | ||
|---|---|---|
Example - Installing Elasticsearch without Persistent storage This example installs Elasticsearch without persistent storage. Refer to Elasticsearch Helm chart documentation for help to enable persistent storage: https://github.com/elastic/helm-charts/tree/master/elasticsearch
|
Install Fluent-bit
Fluent-bit will be installed in the same namespace as Elastic Search, that is logging.
...
| Code Block |
|---|
kubectl logs <fluent-bit pod name> -n logging |
Install Kibana
Kibana will be installed to the same namespace as Fluent-bit, i.e., logging.
...
| Code Block |
|---|
helm install kibana elastic/kibana -n logging --set=service.type=LoadBalancer --set=service.port=80 |
Configure Kibana
Kibana is a visual interface tool that allows you to explore, visualize, and build a dashboard over the log data massed in Elastic Search cluster.
...