Preparing for monitoring

You can use a Graphite or Prometheus monitoring service in your container environment.

Before you begin

To set up monitoring for your containers, access to one of the following services is required:

  • Access to Graphite
  • Access to Prometheus

About this task

This information helps you to create and collect the settings you need to enable the containers' logging and monitoring capabilities at deployment time.

Procedure

To configure monitoring for the container deployment:

  1. Ensure that you have an installation of Graphite or Prometheus for the monitoring service.
  2. Compile the values for your monitoring system.
    You specify these values in the custom resource YAML file for operator deployment.

    Use the following reference information to compile the values: Monitoring parameters