This document describes how to configure user-defined metrics for Horizontal Pod autoscaling (HPA) in Google Distributed Cloud.
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Deploy Prometheus and Metrics Adapter
In this section you deploy Prometheus to scrape user-defined metrics and the prometheus-adapter to fulfil the Kubernetes Custom Metrics API with Prometheus as its backend.
Save the following manifests to a file named custom-metrics-adapter.yaml.
Manifest file content for Prometheus and Metrics Adapter
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apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
name: stackdriver-prometheus
namespace: kube-system
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRole
metadata:
name: stackdriver-prometheus
namespace: kube-system
rules:
- apiGroups:
- ""
resources:
- nodes
- services
- endpoints
- pods
verbs:
- get
- list
- watch
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata:
name: stackdriver-prometheus
namespace: kube-system
roleRef:
apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
kind: ClusterRole
name: stackdriver-prometheus
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
name: stackdriver-prometheus
namespace: kube-system
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: stackdriver-prometheus-app
namespace: kube-system
labels:
app: stackdriver-prometheus-app
spec:
clusterIP: "None"
ports:
- name: http
port: 9090
protocol: TCP
targetPort: 9090
sessionAffinity: ClientIP
selector:
app: stackdriver-prometheus-app
---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: stackdriver-prometheus-app
namespace: kube-system
labels:
app: stackdriver-prometheus-app
spec:
replicas: 1
selector:
matchLabels:
app: stackdriver-prometheus-app
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: stackdriver-prometheus-app
spec:
serviceAccount: stackdriver-prometheus
containers:
- name: prometheus-server
image: prom/prometheus:v2.45.0
args:
- "--config.file=/etc/prometheus/config/prometheus.yaml"
- "--storage.tsdb.path=/data"
- "--storage.tsdb.retention.time=2h"
ports:
- name: prometheus
containerPort: 9090
readinessProbe:
httpGet:
path: /-/ready
port: 9090
periodSeconds: 5
timeoutSeconds: 3
# Allow up to 10m on startup for data recovery
failureThreshold: 120
livenessProbe:
httpGet:
path: /-/healthy
port: 9090
periodSeconds: 5
timeoutSeconds: 3
failureThreshold: 6
resources:
requests:
cpu: 250m
memory: 500Mi
volumeMounts:
- name: config-volume
mountPath: /etc/prometheus/config
- name: stackdriver-prometheus-app-data
mountPath: /data
volumes:
- name: config-volume
configMap:
name: stackdriver-prometheus-app
- name: stackdriver-prometheus-app-data
emptyDir: {}
terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 300
nodeSelector:
kubernetes.io/os: linux
---
apiVersion: v1
data:
prometheus.yaml: |
global:
scrape_interval: 1m
rule_files:
- /etc/config/rules.yaml
- /etc/config/alerts.yaml
scrape_configs:
- job_name: prometheus-io-endpoints
kubernetes_sd_configs:
- role: endpoints
relabel_configs:
- action: keep
regex: true
source_labels:
- __meta_kubernetes_service_annotation_prometheus_io_scrape
- action: replace
regex: (.+)
source_labels:
- __meta_kubernetes_service_annotation_prometheus_io_path
target_label: __metrics_path__
- action: replace
regex: (https?)
source_labels:
- __meta_kubernetes_service_annotation_prometheus_io_scheme
target_label: __scheme__
- action: replace
regex: ([^:]+)(?::\d+)?;(\d+)
replacement: $1:$2
source_labels:
- __address__
- __meta_kubernetes_service_annotation_prometheus_io_port
target_label: __address__
- action: replace
source_labels:
- __meta_kubernetes_namespace
target_label: namespace
- action: replace
source_labels:
- __meta_kubernetes_pod_name
target_label: pod
- action: keep
regex: (.+)
source_labels:
- __meta_kubernetes_endpoint_port_name
- job_name: prometheus-io-services
kubernetes_sd_configs:
- role: service
metrics_path: /probe
params:
module:
- http_2xx
relabel_configs:
- action: replace
source_labels:
- __address__
target_label: __param_target
- action: replace
replacement: blackbox
target_label: __address__
- action: keep
regex: true
source_labels:
- __meta_kubernetes_service_annotation_prometheus_io_probe
- action: replace
source_labels:
- __meta_kubernetes_namespace
target_label: namespace
- action: replace
source_labels:
- __meta_kubernetes_pod_name
target_label: pod
- job_name: prometheus-io-pods
kubernetes_sd_configs:
- role: pod
relabel_configs:
- action: keep
regex: true
source_labels:
- __meta_kubernetes_pod_annotation_prometheus_io_scrape
- action: replace
regex: (.+)
source_labels:
- __meta_kubernetes_pod_annotation_prometheus_io_path
target_label: __metrics_path__
- action: replace
regex: ([^:]+)(?::\d+)?;(\d+)
replacement: $1:$2
source_labels:
- __address__
- __meta_kubernetes_pod_annotation_prometheus_io_port
target_label: __address__
- action: replace
source_labels:
- __meta_kubernetes_namespace
target_label: namespace
- action: replace
source_labels:
- __meta_kubernetes_pod_name
target_label: pod
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
name: stackdriver-prometheus-app
namespace: kube-system
---
# The main section of custom metrics adapter.
kind: ServiceAccount
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
name: custom-metrics-apiserver
namespace: kube-system
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata:
name: custom-metrics:system:auth-delegator
roleRef:
apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
kind: ClusterRole
name: system:auth-delegator
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
name: custom-metrics-apiserver
namespace: kube-system
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRole
metadata:
name: custom-metrics-server-resources
rules:
- apiGroups:
- custom.metrics.k8s.io
resources: ["*"]
verbs: ["*"]
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRole
metadata:
name: custom-metrics-resource-reader
rules:
- apiGroups:
- ""
resources:
- nodes
- namespaces
- pods
- services
verbs:
- get
- watch
- list
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata:
name: custom-metrics-resource-reader
roleRef:
apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
kind: ClusterRole
name: custom-metrics-resource-reader
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
name: custom-metrics-apiserver
namespace: kube-system
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: RoleBinding
metadata:
name: custom-metrics-auth-reader
namespace: kube-system
roleRef:
apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
kind: Role
name: extension-apiserver-authentication-reader
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
name: custom-metrics-apiserver
namespace: kube-system
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
name: adapter-config
namespace: kube-system
data:
config.yaml: |
rules:
default: false
# fliter all metrics
- seriesQuery: '{pod=~".+"}'
seriesFilters: []
resources:
# resource name is mapped as it is. ex. namespace -> namespace
template: <<.Resource>>
name:
matches: ^(.*)$
as: ""
# Aggregate metric on resource level
metricsQuery: sum(<<.Series>>{<<.LabelMatchers>>}) by (<<.GroupBy>>)
---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
labels:
app: custom-metrics-apiserver
name: custom-metrics-apiserver
namespace: kube-system
spec:
replicas: 1
selector:
matchLabels:
app: custom-metrics-apiserver
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: custom-metrics-apiserver
name: custom-metrics-apiserver
spec:
serviceAccountName: custom-metrics-apiserver
containers:
- name: custom-metrics-apiserver
resources:
requests:
cpu: 15m
memory: 20Mi
limits:
cpu: 100m
memory: 150Mi
image: registry.k8s.io/prometheus-adapter/prometheus-adapter:v0.11.0
args:
- /adapter
- --cert-dir=/var/run/serving-cert
- --secure-port=6443
- --prometheus-url=http://stackdriver-prometheus-app.kube-system.svc:9090/
- --metrics-relist-interval=1m
- --config=/etc/adapter/config.yaml
ports:
- containerPort: 6443
volumeMounts:
- name: serving-cert
mountPath: /var/run/serving-cert
- mountPath: /etc/adapter/
name: config
readOnly: true
nodeSelector:
kubernetes.io/os: linux
volumes:
- name: serving-cert
emptyDir:
medium: Memory
- name: config
configMap:
name: adapter-config
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: custom-metrics-apiserver
namespace: kube-system
spec:
ports:
- port: 443
targetPort: 6443
selector:
app: custom-metrics-apiserver
---
apiVersion: apiregistration.k8s.io/v1
kind: APIService
metadata:
name: v1beta1.custom.metrics.k8s.io
spec:
service:
name: custom-metrics-apiserver
namespace: kube-system
group: custom.metrics.k8s.io
version: v1beta1
insecureSkipTLSVerify: true
groupPriorityMinimum: 100
versionPriority: 100
---
apiVersion: apiregistration.k8s.io/v1
kind: APIService
metadata:
name: v1beta2.custom.metrics.k8s.io
spec:
service:
name: custom-metrics-apiserver
namespace: kube-system
group: custom.metrics.k8s.io
version: v1beta2
insecureSkipTLSVerify: true
groupPriorityMinimum: 100
versionPriority: 100
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata:
name: hpa-controller-custom-metrics
roleRef:
apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
kind: ClusterRole
name: custom-metrics-server-resources
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
name: horizontal-pod-autoscaler
namespace: kube-system
Create the Deployment and the Service:
kubectl --kubeconfig USER_CLUSTER_KUBECONFIG apply -f custom-metrics-adapter.yaml
The next step is to annotate the user application for metrics collection.
Annotate a user application for metrics collection
To annotate a user application to be scraped and the logs sent to Cloud Monitoring, you must add corresponding annotations to the metadata for the service, Pod, and endpoints.
metadata:
name: "example-monitoring"
namespace: "default"
annotations:
prometheus.io/scrape: "true"
prometheus.io/path: "
Deploy an example user application
In this section, you deploy a sample application with both logs and Prometheus-compatible metrics.
Save the following Service and Deployment manifests to a file named
my-app.yaml. Notice that the Service has the annotationprometheus.io/scrape: "true":kind: Service apiVersion: v1 metadata: name: "example-monitoring" namespace: "default" annotations: prometheus.io/scrape: "true" spec: selector: app: "example-monitoring" ports: - name: http port: 9090 --- apiVersion: apps/v1 kind: Deployment metadata: name: "example-monitoring" namespace: "default" labels: app: "example-monitoring" spec: replicas: 1 selector: matchLabels: app: "example-monitoring" template: metadata: labels: app: "example-monitoring" spec: containers: - image: gcr.io/google-samples/prometheus-dummy-exporter:v0.2.0 name: prometheus-example-exporter command: - ./prometheus-dummy-exporter args: - --metric-name=example_monitoring_up - --metric-value=1 - --port=9090 resources: requests: cpu: 100mCreate the Deployment and the Service:
kubectl --kubeconfig USER_CLUSTER_KUBECONFIG apply -f my-app.yaml
Use the custom metrics in HPA
Deploy the HPA object to use the metric exposed in the previous step. See Autoscaling on multiple metrics and custom metrics for more advanced information about different type of custom metrics.
apiVersion: autoscaling/v2
kind: HorizontalPodAutoscaler
metadata:
name: example-monitoring-hpa
namespace: default
spec:
scaleTargetRef:
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
name: example-monitoring
minReplicas: 1
maxReplicas: 5
metrics:
- type: Pods
pods:
metric:
name: example_monitoring_up
target:
type: AverageValue
averageValue: 20
The Pods type metric has a default metric selector for the labels of the target Pods, which is how kube-controller-manager works. In this example, you cna query the example_monitoring_up metric with a selector of
{matchLabels: {app: example-monitoring}} as they are available in the target Pods. Any other selector specified is added to the list. To avoid the default selector, you canremove any labels on the target Pod or use the Object type metric.
Check that the user-defined application metrics are used by HPA
Check that the user defined application metrics are used by HPA:
kubectl --kubeconfig=USER_CLUSTER_KUBECONFIG describe hpa example-monitoring-hpa
The output will look like this:
Name: example-monitoring-hpa
Namespace: default
Labels:
Costs
Using custom metrics for HPA does not incur any additional Cloud Monitoring charges. The Pods for enabling custom metrics consume additional CPU and memory based on the amount of metrics it scrapes.