Description
Who should attend
This 4.5-hour virtual module is targeted to Site Reliability Engineers / DevOps Engineers / Application Developers who deploy to and manage Kubernetes clusters.
Course Objectives
- Splunk for Kubernetes overview & terminology
- Kubernetes tools in Splunk
- How we monitor Kubernetes
- Viewing the details of a Kubernetes installation
- Dashboard Group for Kubernetes
- Automate monitoring with Detectors & Alerts
Outline: Kubernetes Monitoring with Splunk Observability Cloud (KMWS)
Topic 1 – Module Overview
- Kubernetes Review & Terminology
- Monitoring & metrics review
- Splunk tools for Kubernetes
Topic 2 – Kubernetes Tools in Splunk
- Navigator Infrastructure
- Monitoring Tools
- Built-in Kubernetes Dashboards
- Hands-on exploration using these tools
Topic 3 – How We Monitor Kubernetes
- How the Smart Agent collects Kubernetes metrics
- Review: About Metrics, Metric Time Series, Properties
- Metrics used to monitor Kubernetes
- Using the Metrics Catalog to explore metrics
Topic 4 – Viewing the Details of a Kubernetes Installation
- Viewing a graphical map of your Kubernetes installation
- Multiple ways to view the status of Kubernetes resources
- Viewing Kubernetes events
- Using the Cluster Analyzer to pinpoint the source of trouble
- Creating charts of outlier values and correlations
Topic 5 – Dashboard Group for Kubernetes
- Monitoring Kubernetes with the built-in dashboards
- Investigate a problem with dashboards
- Comparison of dashboards vs other Kubernetes tools
- Viewing cluster services
- Create a custom chart
Topic 6 – Automate monitoring with Detectors and Alerts
- How detectors are used to monitor a metric
- Common detectors used in monitoring Kubernetes
- Create a detector using multiple methods
- Forwarding Kubernetes resource events into Splunk
