Enable Monitoring

Background

It would be great to see application and infrastructure level metrics being reported across all clusters in a single place to allow you to diagnose errors before your customers even notice.

Challenge 7

Persona: Operations

Operations

• Set up Azure Monitor and Container Insights to get visibility into your cluster and application health
• Set an alert with an action for when Node CPU % is more than 80%
• Create a workbook for standard operations
• Add an Azure Policy to enforce monitoring of your cluster

Application Developer

• Use Azure Monitor and Container Insights to view the various default workbooks

Success Criteria

• An alert rule exists for when Node CPU % exceeds 80%
• Cluster is compliant with Azure Policy enforcing monitoring

References

• Azure Monitor for Kubernetes
• Enforce with Policy
• Alerts in Azure Monitor

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