Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) monitoring
- How-to guide
- 1-min read
- Published Aug 19, 2020
Dynatrace ingests metrics for multiple preselected namespaces, including Azure Kubernetes Service. You can view metrics for each service instance, split metrics into multiple dimensions, and create custom charts that you can pin to your dashboards.
Prerequisites
- Dynatrace version 1.200+
- Environment ActiveGate version 1.195+
Enable monitoring
To learn how to enable service monitoring, see Enable service monitoring.
View service metrics
You can view the service metrics in your Dynatrace environment either on the custom device overview page or on your Dashboards page.
View metrics on the custom device overview page
To access the custom device overview page
- Go to Technologies & Processes Classic.
- Filter by service name and select the relevant custom device group.
- Once you select the custom device group, you're on the custom device group overview page.
- The custom device group overview page lists all instances (custom devices) belonging to the group. Select an instance to view the custom device overview page.
View metrics on your dashboard
Once you add a service to monitoring, a preset dashboard for the respective service containing all recommended metrics is automatically created on your Dashboards page. You can look for specific dashboards by filtering by Preset and then by Name.
For existing monitored services, you might need to resave your credentials for the preset dashboard to appear on the Dashboards page. To resave your credentials, go to Settings > Cloud and virtualization > Azure, select the desired Azure instance, then select Save.
You can't make changes on a preset dashboard directly, but you can clone and edit it. To clone a dashboard, open the browse menu (…) and select Clone.
To remove a dashboard from the dashboards list, you can hide it. To hide a dashboard, open the browse menu (…) and select Hide.
Hiding a dashboard doesn't affect other users.
The STANDARD namespace has only four metrics. All Nodes metrics are inside the CUSTOM namespace, while the Node disk capacity and IO metrics are in the CUSTOM (LOG-BASED) namespace.
Available metrics
| Name | Description | Unit | Dimensions | Recommended |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| node_cpu_usage_percentage | Percent | Name of the node, Name of the nodepool |  | |
| node_memory_working_set_bytes | Byte | Name of the node, Name of the nodepool | | |
| node_memory_working_set_percentage | Percent | Name of the node, Name of the nodepool | | |
| kube_node_status_allocatable_cpu_cores | Total number of available CPU cores in a managed cluster | Count | | |
| kube_node_status_allocatable_memory_bytes | Total amount of available memory in a managed cluster | Byte | | |
| kube_node_status_condition | Statuses for various node conditions | Count | condition, status, node | |
| kube_pod_status_phase | Number of pods by phase | Count | phase, namespace, pod | |
| kube_pod_status_ready | Number of pods in Ready state | Count | namespace, pod | |