Understanding the monitoring stack
In Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS, you can monitor your own projects in isolation from Red Hat Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) platform metrics. You can monitor your own projects without the need for an additional monitoring solution.
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Follow the instructions in this document carefully to configure a supported Prometheus instance for monitoring user-defined projects. Custom Prometheus instances are not supported by Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS. |
Understanding the monitoring stack
The Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) monitoring stack is based on the Prometheus open source project and its wider ecosystem. The monitoring stack includes the following:
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Default platform monitoring components. A set of platform monitoring components are installed in the
openshift-monitoringproject and enabled by default during a ROSA installation. This provides monitoring for core cluster components. The default monitoring stack also enables remote health monitoring for clusters. Critical metrics, such as CPU and memory, are collected from all of the workloads in every namespace and are made available for your use.These components are illustrated in the Installed by default section in the following diagram.
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Components for monitoring user-defined projects. This feature is enabled by default and provides monitoring for user-defined projects. These components are illustrated in the User section in the following diagram.
Components for monitoring user-defined projects
Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS includes an optional enhancement to the monitoring stack that enables you to monitor services and pods in user-defined projects. This feature includes the following components:
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Prometheus Operator |
The Prometheus Operator in the |
Prometheus |
Prometheus is the monitoring system through which monitoring is provided for user-defined projects. Prometheus sends alerts to Alertmanager for processing. However, alert routing is not currently supported. |
Thanos Ruler |
The Thanos Ruler is a rule evaluation engine for Prometheus that is deployed as a separate process. In Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS , Thanos Ruler provides rule and alerting evaluation for the monitoring of user-defined projects. |
All of these components are monitored by the stack and are automatically updated when Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS is updated.