Replicate kubernetes-monitoring/kubernetes-mixin

[mjpitz]

The monitoring-mixin project under the Kubernetes space is a great tool for those looking to monitor and alert on events happening within the cluster. While this project is great, the queries that it uses are tied to the kube-prometheus-stack deployment.

The other thing I'm not a huge fan of with this project is jsonnet. Don't get me wrong, I thought it was really interesting at first, but every time I sit down to use it, I need to re-learn it again. Very few people out there have worked with it, making it harder to find contributors.

Scope of work (each should probably be their own task...)

• [ ] research jsonnet alternatives
• [ ] prototype using jsonnet alternative
• [ ] triage dashboards from monitoring-mixin project
  • [ ] TODO: enumerate dashboards
• [ ] triage alerts from monitoring-mixin project
  • [ ] TODO: enumerate dashboards
• [ ] research playbooks as a possible inclusion into this project

[mjpitz]

I started combing through the monitoring mixins repo the other day to figure out what we can repurpose (if anything) as well as get a more concrete idea of what things we need to port into the project.

• alerts
  • apps
  • kube api server
  • kube controller manager
  • kube proxy
  • kube scheduler
  • kubelet
  • resource alerts
  • storage alerts
  • system alerts
• dashboards
  • core
  • api server
  • controller manager
  • kubelet
  • network
  • persistent volume usage
  • proxy
  • resources
  • scheduler
  • windows
  • network usage
  • cluster total
  • namespace by pod
  • namespace by workload
  • pod total
  • workload total
  • resources
  • cluster
  • multicluster
  • namespace
  • node
  • pod
  • workload namespace
  • workload

[mjpitz]

One alternative to JSONNET I thought about as I was running through the Aurae project was the idea of using deno to offer a typescript-esque language for being able to produce the resulting dashboards in a familiar, easy to use manner with an easy to distribute binary written in Rust. The typescript runtime would come from the deno project, making it fairly easy to get started.