Prometheus Monitoring

Each Rook Ceph cluster has some built in metrics collectors/exporters for monitoring with Prometheus.

If you do not have Prometheus running, follow the steps below to enable monitoring of Rook. If your cluster already contains a Prometheus instance, it will automatically discover Rooks scrape endpoint using the standard prometheus.io/scrape and prometheus.io/port annotations.

NOTE: This assumes that the Prometheus instances is searching all your Kubernetes namespaces for Pods with these annotations.

Prometheus Operator

First the Prometheus operator needs to be started in the cluster so it can watch for our requests to start monitoring Rook and respond by deploying the correct Prometheus pods and configuration. A full explanation can be found in the Prometheus operator repository on GitHub, but the quick instructions can be found here:

  1. kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coreos/prometheus-operator/v0.26.0/bundle.yaml

This will start the Prometheus operator, but before moving on, wait until the operator is in the Running state:

  1. kubectl get pod

Once the Prometheus operator is in the Running state, proceed to the next section to create a Prometheus instance.

Prometheus Instances

With the Prometheus operator running, we can create a service monitor that will watch the Rook cluster and collect metrics regularly. From the root of your locally cloned Rook repo, go the monitoring directory:

  1. git clone --single-branch --branch release-1.3 https://github.com/rook/rook.git
  2. cd rook/cluster/examples/kubernetes/ceph/monitoring

Create the service monitor as well as the Prometheus server pod and service:

  1. kubectl create -f service-monitor.yaml
  2. kubectl create -f prometheus.yaml
  3. kubectl create -f prometheus-service.yaml

Ensure that the Prometheus server pod gets created and advances to the Running state before moving on:

  1. kubectl -n rook-ceph get pod prometheus-rook-prometheus-0

NOTE: It is not recommended to consume storage from the Ceph cluster for Prometheus. If the Ceph cluster fails, Prometheus would become unresponsive and thus not alert you of the failure.

Prometheus Web Console

Once the Prometheus server is running, you can open a web browser and go to the URL that is output from this command:

  1. echo "http://$(kubectl -n rook-ceph -o jsonpath={.status.hostIP} get pod prometheus-rook-prometheus-0):30900"

You should now see the Prometheus monitoring website.

Prometheus Monitoring Website

Click on Graph in the top navigation bar.

Prometheus Add graph

In the dropdown that says insert metric at cursor, select any metric you would like to see, for example ceph_cluster_total_used_bytes

Prometheus Select Metric

Click on the Execute button.

Prometheus Execute Metric

Below the Execute button, ensure the Graph tab is selected and you should now see a graph of your chosen metric over time.

Prometheus Execute Metric

Prometheus Consoles

You can find Prometheus Consoles for and from Ceph here: GitHub ceph/cephmetrics - dashboards/current directory.

A guide to how you can write your own Prometheus consoles can be found on the official Prometheus site here: Prometheus.io Documentation - Console Templates.

Prometheus Alerts

To enable the Ceph Prometheus alerts follow these steps:

  1. Create the RBAC rules to enable monitoring.
  1. kubectl create -f cluster/examples/kubernetes/ceph/monitoring/rbac.yaml
  1. Make following changes to your CephCluster object (e.g., cluster.yaml).
  1. apiVersion: ceph.rook.io/v1
  2. kind: CephCluster
  3. metadata:
  4.   name: rook-ceph
  5.   namespace: rook-ceph
  6. [...]
  7. spec:
  8. [...]
  9.   monitoring:
  10.     enabled: true
  11.     rulesNamespace: "rook-ceph"
  12. [...]

(Where rook-ceph is the CephCluster name / namespace)

  1. Deploy or update the CephCluster object.
  1. kubectl apply -f cluster.yaml

NOTE: This expects the Prometheus Operator and a Prometheus instance to be pre-installed by the admin.

Grafana Dashboards

The dashboards have been created by @galexrt. For feedback on the dashboards please reach out to him on the Rook.io Slack.

NOTE: The dashboards are only compatible with Grafana 5.0.3 or higher.

Also note that the dashboards are updated from time to time, to fix issues and improve them.

The following Grafana dashboards are available:

Teardown

To clean up all the artifacts created by the monitoring walkthrough, copy/paste the entire block below (note that errors about resources “not found” can be ignored):

  1. kubectl delete -f service-monitor.yaml
  2. kubectl delete -f prometheus.yaml
  3. kubectl delete -f prometheus-service.yaml
  4. kubectl delete -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coreos/prometheus-operator/v0.26.0/bundle.yaml

Then the rest of the instructions in the Prometheus Operator docs can be followed to finish cleaning up.

Special Cases

Tectonic Bare Metal

Tectonic strongly discourages the tectonic-system Prometheus instance to be used outside their intentions, so you need to create a new Prometheus Operator yourself. After this you only need to create the service monitor as stated above.

CSI Liveness

To integrate CSI liveness and grpc into ceph monitoring we will need to deploy a service and service monitor.

  1. kubectl create -f csi-metrics-service-monitor.yaml

This will create the service monitor to have promethues monitor CSI