GCloud GKE Metrics

This guide assumes you already have a GKE cluster created with Google Cloud SDK and kubectl installed.

Use the Helm version command to verify your version of Helm

helm version

Run the following to add the Victoria Metrics Helm chart.

helm repo add vm https://victoriametrics.github.io/helm-charts/

Export the default configuration to a yaml file so that we can make an edit.

helm show values vm/victoria-metrics-agent >> vmagent-kubernetes.yml

Open the exported configuration in a text editor to add in the remoteWriteUrls.

You will need to edit Line 65 of the vmagent-kubernetes.yml

From:

# WARN: need to specify at least one remote write url or one multi tenant url
remoteWriteUrls: []
# remoteWriteUrls:
#   - http://vm-insert:8480/insert/0/prometheus
#   - http://prometheus:8480/insert/0/prometheus

To:

# WARN: need to specify at least one remote write url or one multi tenant url

remoteWriteUrls: ["https://<your-metrics-username>:<your-metrics-password>@<your-metrics-stack-id>-vm.logit.io:0/api/v1/write"]
# remoteWriteUrls:
#   - http://vm-insert:8480/insert/0/prometheus
#   - http://prometheus:8480/insert/0/prometheus

You are now ready to install the helm chart.

helm --namespace=victoriametrics install vmagent vm/victoria-metrics-agent --create-namespace -f vmagent-kubernetes.yml

Effortlessly transmitting your GCloud Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Metrics data to Logit.io is a critical step in achieving comprehensive monitoring and performance optimization for your Kubernetes clusters. With Logit.io, you can coordinate, centralize and analyze your GKE Metrics, allowing for real-time insights into resource utilization, cluster performance, and application behaviour. Logit.io's GCP logging supports a large backbone of Google metrics and log integrations for top performance.