Install Kubernetes Metrics Server on Amazon EKS Cluster

1. How do I install metrics server on Kubernetes?
2. How do I enable metrics in Kubernetes?
3. How do I know if I have Kubernetes metrics server?
4. How do you deploy Kubernetes dashboard on EKS?
5. How do I upgrade metrics server in Kubernetes?
6. How do I check CPU usage on pod?
7. How do I enable metrics on my server?
8. What is KUBE state metrics?
9. What is Kubernetes metrics server?
10. What is Kubernetes Heapster?
11. How do I access Kubernetes dashboard outside the cluster?
12. How do I access Kubernetes dashboard without proxy?
13. How do I setup my k8s dashboard?

How do I install metrics server on Kubernetes?

kubectl apply step sets an apiservice named v1beta1.metrics.k8s.io, creates a deployment named metrics-server and configures a service for the deployment. Lastly you can call the apiservice via kubectl; for example this should return basic node metrics: $ kubectl get --raw "/apis/metrics.k8s.io/v1beta1/nodes" |jq .

How do I enable metrics in Kubernetes?

Metrics in Kubernetes

In most cases metrics are available on /metrics endpoint of the HTTP server. For components that doesn't expose endpoint by default it can be enabled using --bind-address flag.

How do I know if I have Kubernetes metrics server?

View metric snapshots using kubectl top

Once Metrics Server is deployed, you can retrieve compact metric snapshots from the Metrics API using kubectl top . The kubectl top command returns current CPU and memory usage for a cluster's pods or nodes, or for a particular pod or node if specified.

How do you deploy Kubernetes dashboard on EKS?

You are using a kubectl client that is configured to communicate with your Amazon EKS cluster.

1. Step 2: Deploy the Kubernetes dashboard. ...
2. Step 3: Create an eks-admin service account and cluster role binding. ...
3. Step 4: Connect to the dashboard. ...
4. Step 5: Next steps.

How do I upgrade metrics server in Kubernetes?

Please add --set args="--kubelet-insecure-tls=true" argument to the helm install command that follows.

1. helm repo update.
2. kubectl create namespace metrics.
3. helm install metrics-server \
4. stable/metrics-server \
5. --version 2.0. 2 \
6. --namespace metrics.
7. kubectl -n metrics \
8. rollout status \

How do I check CPU usage on pod?

If you want to check pods cpu/memory usage without installing any third party tool then you can get memory and cpu usage of pod from cgroup.

1. Go to pod's exec mode kubectl exec pod_name -- /bin/bash.
2. Go to cd /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu for cpu usage run cat cpuacct.usage.

How do I enable metrics on my server?

Enabling Metrics Server in Docker Desktop

1. Clone or download the Metrics Server project.
2. Open the deploy/kubernetes/metrics-server-deployment. ...
3. Add the –kubelet-insecure-tls argument into the existing args section. ...
4. Run the following command as shown on the Metrics Server repo to create the deployment, services, etc.

What is KUBE state metrics?

kube-state-metrics is a simple service that listens to the Kubernetes API server and generates metrics about the state of the objects. ... It is not focused on the health of the individual Kubernetes components, but rather on the health of the various objects inside, such as deployments, nodes and pods.

What is Kubernetes metrics server?

The Kubernetes Metrics Server is a cluster-wide aggregator of resource usage data. The Kubernetes Metrics Server collects resource metrics from the kubelet running on each worker node and exposes them in the Kubernetes API server through the Kubernetes Metrics API.

What is Kubernetes Heapster?

Heapster is a cluster-wide aggregator of monitoring and event data. It currently supports Kubernetes natively and works on all Kubernetes setups. Heapster runs as a pod in the cluster, similar to how any Kubernetes application would run.

How do I access Kubernetes dashboard outside the cluster?

Setup the kubectl config file in your laptop with SocketXP Public URL, K8 SSL Certs, and Key. Remote access your private Kubernetes cluster from your laptop using the kubectl CLI utility. Run kubectl in proxy mode in your laptop. Access your Kubernetes dashboard in a web browser via the local kubectl proxy.

How do I access Kubernetes dashboard without proxy?

If you must expose the dashboard without kubectl proxy there are two options:

1. Preferred: Use an authenticating proxy (example in the tutorial section).
2. Expose the proxy using a type: NodePort service and secure your network. This will make the dashboard available to anyone that can directly reach any cluster node.

How do I setup my k8s dashboard?

1. Deploy the latest Kubernetes dashboard. Once you've set up your Kubernetes cluster or if you already had one running, we can get started. ...
2. Creating Admin user. ...
3. Creating Read-Only user. ...
4. Accessing the dashboard. ...
5. Stopping the dashboard. ...
6. Setting up management script.