Files
argocd-apps/apps/base/observability/vmagent.yaml
T
unkin-agent e608dadae7 observability: fix dropped kubelet/cadvisor metrics, add kube-state-metrics + VMAlert k8s.rules (#399)
## Why

Kubernetes container metrics are entirely missing from VictoriaMetrics, leaving the CNPG dashboard CPU panels empty. The `kubernetes-nodes`/`kubernetes-nodes-cadvisor` scrape jobs use a blanket `labelmap` on `__meta_kubernetes_node_label_(.+)`, copying ~50+ node-feature-discovery labels onto every series; every kubelet/cadvisor series then exceeds vminsert's 40-label default and 100% are silently dropped (`vm_rows_ignored_total{reason="too_many_labels"}` ~38B). On top of that, kube-state-metrics, VMAlert and the kube-prometheus `k8s.rules` recording rules were never deployed, so `node_namespace_pod_container:container_cpu_usage_seconds_total:sum_irate` (and companions) have no producer.

## Changes

- replaces the blanket node-label `labelmap` in both node scrape jobs with a single `__meta_kubernetes_node_name -> node` relabel
- renames the node jobs so series carry `job="kubelet"` plus `metrics_path` (`/metrics` and `/metrics/cadvisor`), matching kube-prometheus selectors; the cadvisor job keeps a distinct `job_name` (uniqueness requirement) and forces `job=kubelet` via relabel
- adds kube-state-metrics v2.20.0 (Deployment, standard ClusterRole/Binding, headless Service, VMServiceScrape with `jobLabel` yielding `job="kube-state-metrics"`), image routed through the artifactapi `k8s-registry` remote
- adds a VMAlert CR (datasource vmselect-main, remoteWrite/remoteRead vminsert/vmselect-main, `notifier.blackhole` since it only evaluates recording rules)
- adds a VMRule with the kube-prometheus `k8s.rules` recording group (cpu sum_irate, memory working_set/rss/cache/swap, namespace requests/limits sums, `kube_pod_owner` workload relabel rules)

## Prerequisite

The artifactapi `k8s-registry` remote exists but its `patterns` allowlist (`^autoscaling/vpa-`, `^external-dns/`, `^sig-storage/`) does not cover `kube-state-metrics/` — terraform-artifactapi needs `^kube-state-metrics/` added to `config/remote_docker/k8s-registry.yaml` before/with this merge, or the KSM pod will ImagePullBackOff.

## Notes

- validated with `kustomize build` (base + au-syd1 overlay) and kubeconform (VM CRD schemas skipped)
- the grafana CNPG dashboard also has stale datasource uids — separate follow-up, deliberately not touched here

Reviewed-on: #399
Co-authored-by: unkin-agent <unkin-agent@unkin.net>
Co-committed-by: unkin-agent <unkin-agent@unkin.net>
2026-08-23 21:38:06 +10:00

133 lines
4.6 KiB
YAML

---
apiVersion: operator.victoriametrics.com/v1beta1
kind: VMAgent
metadata:
name: main
namespace: observability
spec:
replicaCount: 2
scrapeInterval: 15s
# Also consume VMServiceScrape / VMPodScrape / VMNodeScrape from every namespace
# (the operator auto-converts Prometheus ServiceMonitors -> VMServiceScrape).
selectAllByDefault: true
extraArgs:
loggerFormat: json
remoteWrite:
- url: http://vminsert-main.observability.svc.cluster.local:8480/insert/0/prometheus/
resources:
requests:
cpu: 250m
memory: 512Mi
limits:
cpu: "1"
memory: 2Gi
# Reflected Vault intermediate CA (unkin.net) for verifying puppet Consul + metrics targets.
volumes:
- name: vault-ca
secret:
secretName: vault-ca-cert
volumeMounts:
- name: vault-ca
mountPath: /etc/vmagent-tls
readOnly: true
inlineScrapeConfig: |
- job_name: vmagent
static_configs:
- targets: ["localhost:8429"]
- job_name: "kubernetes-apiservers"
kubernetes_sd_configs:
- role: endpoints
scheme: https
tls_config:
ca_file: /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/ca.crt
insecure_skip_verify: true
bearer_token_file: /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token
relabel_configs:
- source_labels:
- __meta_kubernetes_namespace
- __meta_kubernetes_service_name
- __meta_kubernetes_endpoint_port_name
action: keep
regex: default;kubernetes;https
# Only the node name goes onto series: a blanket node-label labelmap pushes past vminsert's 40-label limit and drops everything.
- job_name: "kubelet"
scheme: https
tls_config:
ca_file: /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/ca.crt
insecure_skip_verify: true
bearer_token_file: /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token
kubernetes_sd_configs:
- role: node
relabel_configs:
- source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_node_name]
target_label: node
- source_labels: [__metrics_path__]
target_label: metrics_path
- job_name: "kubelet-cadvisor"
scheme: https
tls_config:
ca_file: /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/ca.crt
insecure_skip_verify: true
bearer_token_file: /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token
kubernetes_sd_configs:
- role: node
metrics_path: /metrics/cadvisor
relabel_configs:
- source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_node_name]
target_label: node
- source_labels: [__metrics_path__]
target_label: metrics_path
# job_name must be unique; kube-prometheus selectors expect job="kubelet"
- target_label: job
replacement: kubelet
metric_relabel_configs:
- action: replace
source_labels: [pod]
regex: '(.+)'
target_label: pod_name
replacement: '${1}'
- action: replace
source_labels: [container]
regex: '(.+)'
target_label: container_name
replacement: '${1}'
- action: replace
target_label: name
replacement: k8s_stub
- action: replace
source_labels: [id]
regex: '^/system\.slice/(.+)\.service$'
target_label: systemd_service_name
replacement: '${1}'
# puppet-prod Consul service discovery (same targets as the puppet vmagent).
# consul.service.consul resolves to the puppet Consul from in-cluster pods.
- job_name: consul
consul_sd_configs:
- server: consul.service.consul:443
scheme: https
# Set datacenter explicitly so VM does not call /v1/agent/self
# (which needs agent:read that the anonymous token lacks); catalog
# and health reads work anonymously.
datacenter: au-syd1
tls_config:
ca_file: /etc/vmagent-tls/ca.crt
relabel_configs:
- source_labels: [__meta_consul_tagpresent_metrics]
regex: "true"
action: keep
- source_labels: [__meta_consul_node, __meta_consul_service_port]
separator: ":"
target_label: __address__
replacement: "${1}:${2}"
action: replace
- source_labels: [__meta_consul_tag_metrics_scheme]
target_label: __scheme__
action: replace
- target_label: __metrics_path__
replacement: /metrics
- source_labels: [__meta_consul_tag_metrics_job]
target_label: job
action: replace
tls_config:
ca_file: /etc/vmagent-tls/ca.crt