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An implementation of the custom.metrics.k8s.io API using Prometheus
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# Prometheus Adapter for Kubernetes Metrics APIs



This repository contains an implementation of the Kubernetes Custom, Resource and External

[Metric APIs](https://github.com/kubernetes/metrics).



This adapter is therefore suitable for use with the autoscaling/v2 Horizontal Pod Autoscaler in Kubernetes 1.6+.  

It can also replace the [metrics server](https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/metrics-server) on clusters that already run Prometheus and collect the appropriate metrics.



Quick Links

-----------



- [Config walkthrough](docs/config-walkthrough.md) and [config reference](docs/config.md).

- [End-to-end walkthrough](docs/walkthrough.md)

- [Deployment info and files](deploy/README.md)



Installation

-------------

If you're a helm user, a helm chart is listed on prometheus-community repository as [prometheus-community/prometheus-adapter](https://github.com/prometheus-community/helm-charts/tree/main/charts/prometheus-adapter).



To install it with the release name `my-release`, run this Helm command:



For Helm2

```console

$ helm repo add prometheus-community https://prometheus-community.github.io/helm-charts

$ helm repo update

$ helm install --name my-release prometheus-community/prometheus-adapter

```

For Helm3 ( as name is mandatory )

```console

$ helm repo add prometheus-community https://prometheus-community.github.io/helm-charts

$ helm repo update

$ helm install my-release prometheus-community/prometheus-adapter

```



Official images

---

All official images for releases after v0.8.4 are available in `registry.k8s.io/prometheus-adapter/prometheus-adapter:$VERSION`. The project also maintains a [staging registry](https://console.cloud.google.com/gcr/images/k8s-staging-prometheus-adapter/GLOBAL/) where images for each commit from the master branch are published. You can use this registry if you need to test a version from a specific commit, or if you need to deploy a patch while waiting for a new release.



Images for versions v0.8.4 and prior are only available in unofficial registries:

* https://quay.io/repository/coreos/k8s-prometheus-adapter-amd64

* https://hub.docker.com/r/directxman12/k8s-prometheus-adapter/



Configuration

-------------



The adapter takes the standard Kubernetes generic API server arguments

(including those for authentication and authorization).  By default, it

will attempt to using [Kubernetes in-cluster

config](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-application-cluster/access-cluster/#accessing-the-api-from-a-pod)

to connect to the cluster.



It takes the following additional arguments specific to configuring how the

adapter talks to Prometheus and the main Kubernetes cluster:



- `--lister-kubeconfig=`: This configures

  how the adapter talks to a Kubernetes API server in order to list

  objects when operating with label selectors.  By default, it will use

  in-cluster config.



- `--metrics-relist-interval=`: This is the interval at which to

  update the cache of available metrics from Prometheus. By default, this

  value is set to 10 minutes.



- `--metrics-max-age=`: This is the max age of the metrics to be

  loaded from Prometheus. For example, when set to `10m`, it will query

  Prometheus for metrics since 10m ago, and only those that has datapoints

  within the time period will appear in the adapter. Therefore, the metrics-max-age

  should be equal to or larger than your Prometheus' scrape interval,

  or your metrics will occaisonally disappear from the adapter.

  By default, this is set to be the same as metrics-relist-interval to avoid

  some confusing behavior (See this [PR](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/prometheus-adapter/pull/230)).



  Note: We recommend setting this only if you understand what is happening.

  For example, this setting could be useful in cases where the scrape duration is

  over a network call, e.g. pulling metrics from AWS CloudWatch, or Google Monitoring,

  more specifically, Google Monitoring sometimes have delays on when data will show

  up in their system after being sampled. This means that even if you scraped data

  frequently, they might not show up soon. If you configured the relist interval to

  a short period but without configuring this, you might not be able to see your

  metrics in the adapter in certain scenarios.



- `--prometheus-url=`: This is the URL used to connect to Prometheus.

  It will eventually contain query parameters to configure the connection.



- `--config=` (`-c`): This configures how the adapter discovers available

  Prometheus metrics and the associated Kubernetes resources, and how it presents those

  metrics in the custom metrics API.  More information about this file can be found in

  [docs/config.md](docs/config.md).



Presentation

------------



The adapter gathers the names of available metrics from Prometheus

at a regular interval (see [Configuration](#configuration) above), and then

only exposes metrics that follow specific forms.



The rules governing this discovery are specified in a [configuration file](docs/config.md).

If you were relying on the implicit rules from the previous version of the adapter,

you can use the included `config-gen` tool to generate a configuration that matches

the old implicit ruleset:



```shell

$ go run cmd/config-gen/main.go [--rate-interval=] [--label-prefix=]

```



Example

-------



A brief walkthrough exists in [docs/walkthrough.md](docs/walkthrough.md).



Additionally, [@luxas](https://github.com/luxas) has an excellent example

deployment of Prometheus, this adapter, and a demo pod which serves

a metric `http_requests_total`, which becomes the custom metrics API

metric `pods/http_requests`.  It also autoscales on that metric using the

`autoscaling/v2beta1` HorizontalPodAutoscaler.  Note that @luxas's tutorial

uses a slightly older version of the adapter.



It can be found at https://github.com/luxas/kubeadm-workshop.  Pay special

attention to:



- [Deploying the Prometheus

  Operator](https://github.com/luxas/kubeadm-workshop#deploying-the-prometheus-operator-for-monitoring-services-in-the-cluster)

- [Setting up the custom metrics adapter and sample

  app](https://github.com/luxas/kubeadm-workshop#deploying-a-custom-metrics-api-server-and-a-sample-app)



FAQs

----



### Why do my metrics keep jumping between a normal value and a very large number?



You're probably switching between whole numbers (e.g. `10`) and milli-quantities (e.g. `10500m`).

Worry not!  This is just how Kubernetes represents fractional values.  See the

[Quantity Values](/docs/walkthrough.md#quantity-values) section of the walkthrough for a bit more

information.



### Why isn't my metric showing up?



First, check your configuration.  Does it select your metric?  You can

find the [default configuration](/deploy/manifests/custom-metrics-config-map.yaml)

in the deploy directory, and more information about configuring the

adapter in the [docs](/docs/config.md).



Next, check if the discovery information looks right.  You should see the

metrics showing up as associated with the resources you expect at

`/apis/custom.metrics.k8s.io/v1beta1/` (you can use `kubectl get --raw

/apis/custom.metrics.k8s.io/v1beta1` to check, and can pipe to `jq` to

pretty-print the results, if you have it installed). If not, make sure

your series are labeled correctly.  Consumers of the custom metrics API

(especially the HPA) don't do any special logic to associate a particular

resource to a particular series, so you have to make sure that the adapter

does it instead.



For example, if you want a series `foo` to be associated with deployment

`bar` in namespace `somens`, make sure there's some label that represents

deployment name, and that the adapter is configured to use it.  With the

default config, that means you'd need the query

`foo{namespace="somens",deployment="bar"}` to return some results in

Prometheus.



Next, try using the `--v=6` flag on the adapter to see the exact queries

being made by the adapter.  Try url-decoding the query and pasting it into

the Prometheus web console to see if the query looks wrong.



### My query contains multiple metrics, how do I make that work?



It's actually fairly straightforward, if a bit non-obvious.  Simply choose one

metric to act as the "discovery" and "naming" metric, and use that to configure

the "discovery" and "naming" parts of the configuration.  Then, you can write

whichever metrics you want in the `metricsQuery`!  The series query can contain

whichever metrics you want, as long as they have the right set of labels.



For example, suppose you have two metrics `foo_total` and `foo_count`,

both with the label `system_name`, which represents the `node` resource.

Then, you might write



```yaml

rules:

- seriesQuery: 'foo_total'

  resources: {overrides: {system_name: {resource: "node"}}}

  name:

    matches: 'foo_total'

    as: 'foo'

  metricsQuery: 'sum(foo_total{<<.LabelMatchers>>}) by (<<.GroupBy>>) / sum(foo_count{<<.LabelMatchers>>}) by (<<.GroupBy>>)'

```



### I get errors about SubjectAccessReviews/system:anonymous/TLS/Certificates/RequestHeader!



It's important to understand the role of TLS in the Kubernetes cluster.  There's a high-level

overview here: https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/apiserver-builder/blob/master/docs/concepts/auth.md.



All of the above errors generally boil down to misconfigured certificates.

Specifically, you'll need to make sure your cluster's aggregation layer is

properly configured, with requestheader certificates set up properly.



Errors about SubjectAccessReviews failing for system:anonymous generally mean

that your cluster's given requestheader CA doesn't trust the proxy certificates

from the API server aggregator.



On the other hand, if you get an error from the aggregator about invalid certificates,

it's probably because the CA specified in the `caBundle` field of your APIService

object doesn't trust the serving certificates for the adapter.



If you're seeing SubjectAccessReviews failures for non-anonymous users, check your

RBAC rules -- you probably haven't given users permission to operate on resources in

the `custom.metrics.k8s.io` API group.



### My metrics appear and disappear



You probably have a Prometheus collection interval or computation interval

that's larger than your adapter's discovery interval.  If the metrics

appear in discovery but occaisionally return not-found, those intervals

are probably larger than one of the rate windows used in one of your

queries.  The adapter only considers metrics with datapoints in the window

`[now-discoveryInterval, now]` (in order to only capture metrics that are

still present), so make sure that your discovery interval is at least as

large as your collection interval.



### I get errors when query namespace prefixed metrics?



I have namespace prefixed metrics like `{ "name": "namespaces/node_memory_PageTables_bytes", "singularName": "", "namespaced": false, "kind": "MetricValueList", "verbs": [ "get" ] }`, but I get error `Error from server (InternalError): Internal error occurred: unable to list matching resources` when access with `kubectl get --raw /apis/custom.metrics.k8s.io/v1beta1/namespaces/*/node_memory_PageTables_bytes` .



Actually namespace prefixed metrics are special, we should access them with `kubectl get --raw /apis/custom.metrics.k8s.io/v1beta1/namespaces/*/metrics/node_memory_PageTables_bytes`.



## Community, discussion, contribution, and support



Learn how to engage with the Kubernetes community on the [community page](http://kubernetes.io/community/).



You can reach the maintainers of this project at:



- [Slack](http://slack.k8s.io/)

- [Mailing List](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/kubernetes-dev)