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Collect Metrics from Exporters using the Managed Service for Prometheus
GSP1026
Overview
In this lab, you will explore using the Managed Service for Prometheus to collect metrics from other infrastructure sources via exporters.
Objectives
In this lab, you will learn how to:
- Deploy a GCE instance and configure the node-exporter tool
- Build the GMP binary locally and deploy to the GCE instance
- Apply a Prometheus configuration to begin collecting metrics
Setup and requirements
Before you click the Start Lab button
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To complete this lab, you need:
- Access to a standard internet browser (Chrome browser recommended).
- Time to complete the lab---remember, once you start, you cannot pause a lab.
How to start your lab and sign in to the Google Cloud console
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Click the Start Lab button. If you need to pay for the lab, a pop-up opens for you to select your payment method. On the left is the Lab Details panel with the following:
- The Open Google Cloud console button
- Time remaining
- The temporary credentials that you must use for this lab
- Other information, if needed, to step through this lab
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Click Open Google Cloud console (or right-click and select Open Link in Incognito Window if you are running the Chrome browser).
The lab spins up resources, and then opens another tab that shows the Sign in page.
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Click Next.
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- Accept the terms and conditions.
- Do not add recovery options or two-factor authentication (because this is a temporary account).
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After a few moments, the Google Cloud console opens in this tab.
Activate Cloud Shell
Cloud Shell is a virtual machine that is loaded with development tools. It offers a persistent 5GB home directory and runs on the Google Cloud. Cloud Shell provides command-line access to your Google Cloud resources.
- Click Activate Cloud Shell at the top of the Google Cloud console.
When you are connected, you are already authenticated, and the project is set to your Project_ID,
gcloud
is the command-line tool for Google Cloud. It comes pre-installed on Cloud Shell and supports tab-completion.
- (Optional) You can list the active account name with this command:
- Click Authorize.
Output:
- (Optional) You can list the project ID with this command:
Output:
gcloud
, in Google Cloud, refer to the gcloud CLI overview guide.
Task 1. Deploy GKE cluster
- Deploy a basic GKE cluster to set up the lab:
Task 2. Set up a namespace
- Create the
gmp-test
Kubernetes namespace for resources you create as part of the example application:
Task 3. Deploy the example application
The managed service provides a manifest for an example application that emits Prometheus metrics on its metrics port. The application uses three replicas.
- To deploy the example application, run the following command:
Task 4. Configure a PodMonitoring resource
To ingest the metric data emitted by the example application, you use target scraping. Target scraping and metrics ingestion are configured using Kubernetes custom resources. The managed service uses PodMonitoring custom resources (CRs).
A PodMonitoring CR scrapes targets only in the namespace the CR is deployed in. To scrape targets in multiple namespaces, deploy the same PodMonitoring CR in each namespace. You can verify the PodMonitoring resource is installed in the intended namespace by running kubectl get podmonitoring -A
.
For reference documentation about all the Managed Service for Prometheus CRs, see the prometheus-engine/doc/api reference.
The following manifest defines a PodMonitoring resource, prom-example
, in the gmp-test
namespace. The resource uses a Kubernetes label selector to find all pods in the namespace that have the label app
with the value prom-example
. The matching pods are scraped on a port named metrics
, every 30 seconds, on the /metrics
HTTP path.
- To apply this resource, run the following command:
Your managed collector is now scraping the matching pods.
To configure horizontal collection that applies to a range of pods across all namespaces, use the ClusterPodMonitoring resource. The ClusterPodMonitoring resource provides the same interface as the PodMonitoring resource but does not limit discovered pods to a given namespace.
If you are running on GKE, then you can do the following:
- To query the metrics ingested by the example application, see Query data from the Prometheus service.
- To learn about filtering exported metrics and adapting your prom-operator resources, see Additional topics for managed collection.
Task 5. Download the prometheus binary
- Download the prometheus binary from the following bucket:
Task 6. Run the prometheus binary
- Save your project id to a variable:
- Save your zone to a variable. These values will be used when running your promtheus binary.
- Run the prometheus binary on cloud shell using command here:
After the prometheus binary begins you should be able to go to managed prometheus in the Console UI and run a PromQL query “up” to see the prometheus binary is available (will show localhost running one as the instance name).
Task 7. Download and run the node exporter
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Open a new tab in cloud shell to run the node exporter commands.
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Download and run the exporter on the cloud shell box:
You should see output like this indicating that the Node Exporter is now running and exposing metrics on port 9100:
Create a config.yaml file
- Stop the running prometheus binary in the 1st tab of Cloud Shell and have a new config file which will take the metrics from node exporter:
- Create a config.yaml file with the following spec:
- Upload the config.yaml file you created to verify:
- Re-run prometheus pointing to the new configuration file by running the command below:
- Use the following stat from the exporter to see its count in a PromQL query. In Cloud Shell, click on the web preview icon. Set the port to
9090
by selecting Change Preview Port and preview by clicking Change and Preview.
Write any query in the PromQL query Editor prefixed with “node_” this should bring up an input list of metrics you can select to visualize in the graphical editor.
- "node_cpu_seconds_total" provides graphical data.
Try selecting other metrics that appear to view the data exported.
Congratulations!
In this lab you deployed a Compute Instance and configured node-exporter. You then configured the GMP binary to ingest metrics from node-exporter and viewed the metrics.
Finish your quest
This self-paced lab is part of the Monitor Environments with Google Cloud managed Service for Prometheus skill badge quest. A quest is a series of related labs that form a learning path. Completing this quest earns you a badge to recognize your achievement. You can make your badge or badges public and link to them in your online resume or social media account. Enroll in this quest and get immediate completion credit. Refer to the Google Cloud Skills Boost catalog for all available quests.
Next steps / Learn more
You can read more about Google cloud Managed Service for Prometheus.
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Manual Last Updated October 27, 2023
Lab Last Tested October 27, 2023
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