Prometheus Collector

The Prometheus Collector report gathers workload metrics from a Prometheus installation in order to provide fine-grained resource usage data. This can be used to gauge how much different workloads cost, understand cost trends and help set resource requests and limits.

Note: Prometheus Collector requires kube-state-metrics and metrics-server to be installed and running in the cluster.

Use an Existing Prometheus Installation

If you already have Prometheus installed you can point Insights to the service endpoint of your installation. If you installed the Prometheus operator, the service endpoint will likely end in port 9090, and if you only installed the prometheus-server the service endpoint will probably end in port 80. To configure this in the values.yaml file use the following format:

prometheus-metrics:
  address: "http://<prometheus-service-name>.<namespace>.svc.cluster.local:<port>"

Install a New Prometheus

The Insights Agent chart can also install a new Prometheus server in your cluster to use. To install Prometheus alongside the Agent, add the following to your values.yaml:

prometheus-metrics:
  installPrometheusServer: true

Sample Report

Prometheus Collector contains CPU and Memory usage for different workloads

{
    "Values": [
        {
            "Container": "autoscaler",
            "ControllerKind": "Deployment",
            "ControllerName": "kube-dns-autoscaler",
            "ControllerNamespace": "kube-system",
            "LimitValue": 0,
            "Metric": "Memory",
            "PodName": "kube-dns-autoscaler-b48d96894-mjtkt",
            "Request": 10485760,
            "StartTime": "2021-02-01T13:20:00Z",
            "Value": 8777728
        },
        {
            "Container": "autoscaler",
            "ControllerKind": "Deployment",
            "ControllerName": "kube-dns-autoscaler",
            "ControllerNamespace": "kube-system",
            "LimitValue": 0,
            "Metric": "CPU",
            "PodName": "kube-dns-autoscaler-b48d96894-mjtkt",
            "Request": 20,
            "StartTime": "2021-02-01T13:21:00Z",
            "Value": 0
        }
    ]
}