In today’s post, we will take a quick look at Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) metrics and alerts for Azure Monitor. Out of the box, Microsoft offers two ways to obtain metrics:
- Metrics that can easily be used with Azure Monitor to generate alerts; these metrics are written to the Azure Monitor metrics store
- Metrics forwarded to Log Analytics; with Log Analytics queries (KQL), you can generate alerts as well
In this post, we will briefly look at the metrics in the Azure Monitor metrics store. In the past, the AKS metrics in the metrics store were pretty basic:
Some time ago however, support for additional metrics was introduced:
Although you can find the above data in Log Analytics as well, it is just a bit easier to work with these metrics when they are in the metrics store. Depending on the age of your cluster, these metrics might not be enabled. Check this page to learn how to enable them: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/insights/container-insights-update-metrics
When the metrics are enabled, it is easy to visualize them from the Metrics pane. Note that metrics can be split. The screenshot below shows the nodes count, split in Ready and NotReady:
To generate an alert based on the above metrics, a new alert rule can be generated. Although the New alert rule link is greyed out, you can create the alert from Azure Monitor:
And of course, when this fires you will see this in Azure Monitor:
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