How to Monitor CRI-O Using eG Enterprise?

To monitor CRI-O using eG Enterprise, you need to first deploy a DaemonSet which will automatically install the eG agent as a container in the target CRI-O Container Engine.

To deploy a DeamonSet which will automatically install an eG agent as a container in the target environment, follow the steps below:

  1. Login to the eG admin interface.

  2. Figure 1 then appears prompting you to pick what you want to monitor. Select Kubernetes and Containers from Figure 1.

    Figure 1 : Choosing to monitor Kubernetes and Containers

  3. Figure 2 then appears. Here, click the Kubernetes, Openshift, EKS, AKS tile.

    Figure 2 : Choosing to monitor Kubernetes, Openshift, EKS, AKS infrastructures

  4. Figure 3 then appears. Here, choose Container Applications tile.

    Figure 3 : Choosing to monitor Container Applications

  5. Figure 4 then appears. By default, eG Enterprise monitors the target CRI-O Container Engine and the applications installed on the Container Engine using a single container agent. To deploy the container agent, you need to first determine whether the target Container Engine is installed on a Kubernetes platform or an Openshift platform. By default, Kubernetes is chosen from the Platform list.

    Figure 4 : Selecting the platform on which the CRI-O Container Engine is operating

  6. By default, the Container agent configuration tab is displayed as shown in Figure 4. The details of the agent to be installed as the container are specified by default.

    • Registry URL: By default, the container agent is published on the Docker repository with Public access. Specify the exact URL that should be accessed to download the container agent.

    • Container agent image: Specify the exact image that should be downloaded from the Registry URL to deploy the container agent as a Daemonset. By default, the version of the container agent should be the same as that of the eG manager. For example, if the version of the eG manager is 7.2, then, the container agent image too should be of v7.2.

    • Pull secret key: By default, none is displayed against this parameter indicating that the container agent image is published on the Docker repository with Public access. In some highly secure environments, administrators may privately publish the container agent image in the Docker repository. In such case, ensure that you specify the secret key to access the container agent image from the Docker repository.

  7. Next, navigate to the Deploy container agent tab (see Figure 5).

    Figure 5 : Steps to deploy the container agent as a Daemonset

    To deploy the container agent as a Daemonset, you need to download the egagent_kubernetes.yaml file. To download the file do the following:

    • In the target environment, choose a system where kubectl client is available to connect to the Kubernetes Cluster.

    • Run either of the following commands to download the egagent_kubernetes.yaml file.

      curl -o egagent_kubernetes.yaml "http(s)://<IP address of eG manager:Port>/final/egdca?gp=D0F28DD6B50F3D807B4CE61454A4365B&ct=528735868A46FFB63C945E54565BB6A4"

      or

      wget -O egagent_kubernetes.yaml "http(s)://<IP address of eG manager:Port>/final/egdca?gp=D0F28DD6B50F3D807B4CE61454A4365B&ct=528735868A46FFB63C945E54565BB6A4"

      The file will now be successfully downloaded.

  8. Since you are downloading the file from the eG Enterprise console, the env: section of the downloaded file will be auto-populated with the following variables:

    • EG_MANAGER

    • EG_MANAGER_PORT

    • EG_MANAGER_SSL

    • EG_AGENT_IDENTIFIER_ID

    Ensure that the variables remain unchanged.

  9. Now, executing the following command will help you deploy the eG agent as a Daemonset.

    kubectl create -f egagent_kubernetes.yaml

  10. Alternately, if you had chosen Openshift option from the Platform list of Figure 4, you need to download the egagent_openshift.yaml file.

  11. To download the file do the following:

    In the target environment, choose a system where oc client is available to connect to the Openshift Cluster.

    Run either of the following commands to download the egagent_openshift.yaml file.

    curl -o egagent_openshift.yaml "http(s)://<IP address of eG manager:Port>/final/egdca?gp=D0F28DD6B50F3D807B4CE61454A4365B&ct=1E9E5EF444C9876E6B5CBDAF7848BCAD"

    or

    wget -O egagent_openshift.yaml "http(s)://<IP address of eG manager:Port>/final/egdca?gp=D0F28DD6B50F3D807B4CE61454A4365B&ct=1E9E5EF444C9876E6B5CBDAF7848BCAD"

    The file will now be successfully downloaded.

  12. Since you are downloading the file from the eG Enterprise console, the env: section of the downloaded file will be auto-populated with the following variables:

    • EG_MANAGER

    • EG_MANAGER_PORT

    • EG_MANAGER_SSL

    • EG_AGENT_IDENTIFIER_ID

    Ensure that the variables remain unchanged.

  13. Now, executing the following command will help you deploy the container agent as a Daemonset on an Openshift platform.

    oc create -f egagent_openshift.yaml

  14. Once the container agent is deployed as a Daemonset, the target CRI-O Container Engine and the applications within the Container Engine will be automatically discovered and managed. Now, navigate to the layer model page in the eG monitor interface to view the real time metrics collected for the target Container Engine.