Integrate Prometheus with the Dragonfly Operator

This guide provides step-by-step instructions to set up Prometheus with the Dragonfly Operator. In this guide, you’ll use the Promethues Operator and PodMonitor to manage Prometheus resources.

Prerequisites

Install Prometheus Operator

First make sure you have all the Prometheus CRDs installed in your cluster. Run the below commands to install the Prometheus Operator.

  1. LATEST=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator/releases/latest | jq -cr .tag_name)
  2. curl -sL https://github.com/prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator/releases/download/${LATEST}/bundle.yaml | kubectl create -f -

Create the PodMonitor Resource

PodMonitors allow Prometheus to monitor specific pods that has the target labels. It is the easiest way to monitor Dragonfly pods. You can either create your own PodMonitor config file or use our sample podMonitor.yaml file to create a PodMonitor object.

  1. kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly-operator/main/monitoring/podMonitor.yaml

Note you must use app: <dragonfly-name> as a selector label in the PodMonitor to target the correct Dragonfly instances. The label value is the name of your Dragonfly resource (in this case, dragonfly-sample).

The Dragonfly pod exposes a port named admin which you can use as the endpoint in PodMonitor.

Create Promethues Resources

Now you have installed the operator and PodMonitor, it is time to create the prometheus resources. If you have RBAC enabled, create the necessary serviceaccount, clusterrole and clusterrolebinding resources first.

  1. $ kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly-operator/main/monitoring/promServiceAccount.yaml
  2. $ kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly-operator/main/monitoring/promClusterRole.yaml
  3. $ kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly-operator/main/monitoring/promClusterBinding.yaml

This will allow Prometheus to scrape data from Dragonfly resources. Run the below command to create the Prometheus object. It will create a pod named prometheus-prometheus-0.

  1. $ kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly-operator/main/monitoring/prometheus-config.yaml

You can also create a service that points to the Prometheus pod.

  1. $ kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly-operator/main/monitoring/prometheus-service.yaml

Run kubectl get all to check if all the resources have successfully been created.

  1. $ kubectl get all
  2. NAME                                       READY   STATUS    RESTARTS         AGE
  3. pod/dragonfly-sample-0                     1/1     Running   4 (3h50m ago)    12d
  4. pod/dragonfly-sample-1                     1/1     Running   4 (3h50m ago)    12d
  5. pod/prometheus-operator-744c6bb8f9-vnxw4   1/1     Running   16 (3h49m ago)   19d
  6. pod/prometheus-prometheus-0                2/2     Running   6 (3h50m ago)    11d
  8. NAME                          TYPE        CLUSTER-IP      EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)    AGE
  9. service/dragonfly-sample      ClusterIP   10.96.2.149     <none>        6379/TCP   12d
  10. service/kubernetes            ClusterIP   10.96.0.1       <none>        443/TCP    45d
  11. service/prometheus-operated   ClusterIP   None            <none>        9090/TCP   11d
  12. service/prometheus-operator   ClusterIP   None            <none>        8080/TCP   19d
  13. service/prometheus-svc        ClusterIP   10.96.8.22      <none>        9090/TCP   11d
  15. NAME                                  READY   UP-TO-DATE   AVAILABLE   AGE
  16. deployment.apps/prometheus-operator   1/1     1            1           19d
  18. NAME                                             DESIRED   CURRENT   READY   AGE
  19. replicaset.apps/prometheus-operator-744c6bb8f9   1         1         1       19d
  21. NAME                                     READY   AGE
  22. statefulset.apps/dragonfly-sample        2/2     12d
  23. statefulset.apps/prometheus-prometheus   1/1     11d

Access Prometheus UI

Prometheus has a beautiful UI that you can use to query certain metrics. Use the port-forward command to either directly expose the Prometheus pod (port 9090) or expose the Prometheus service.

  1. kubectl port-forward prometheus-prometheus-0 9090:9090

Now go to localhost:9090. Congratulations! You just integrated Prometheus with Dragonfly!