How to redirect metrics

VM Agent and metrics routing.

By default, VM Agent (shturval-metrics-collector) collects metrics and sends them to VictoriaMetrics of the management cluster. You can configure client or management cluster metrics to be redirected to external VictoriaMetrics in your infrastructure.

Step 1. Prepare the ShturvalServicePatch manifest #

Prepare a manifest ShturvalServicePatch to apply to the specification (ssc) *Monitoring module control component (shturval-metrics-collector) with the required parameters in custom values.

Metric redirection options:

• Disable internal monitoring and send metrics only to the external cluster;
• Duplicate — send metrics to both internal and external clusters.

Redirecting metrics and disabling internal monitoring #

Example ShturvalServicePatch:

apiVersion: ops.shturval.tech/v1beta2
kind: ShturvalServicePatch
metadata:
  name: <resource name>
spec:
  shturvalServiceConfigName: shturval-metrics-collector
  custom values:
    external: 
      vm: 
        write: # Configuration of sending metrics to an external monitoring service
          url: <your parameter value>
        read: # Settings for reading metrics from an external monitoring service
          url: <your parameter value>

Instead of 0 in the examples, you must specify TenantID. In this case, the ability to receive metrics from an external monitoring service is also configured to be able to configure alerting in the Shturval platform cluster.

Note: Without the read block, the Grafana and alerting dashboards in the platform will not work correctly.

Redirect metrics without disabling internal monitoring #

To save internal monitoring and additionally send metrics to external VictoriaMetrics:

apiVersion: ops.shturval.tech/v1beta2
kind: ShturvalServicePatch
metadata:
  name: <resource name>
spec:
  shturvalServiceConfigName: shturval-metrics-collector
  custom values:
    vmagent: 
      additionalRemoteWrites: 
      - url: <your parameter value>
  

Step 2: Upload the manifest to the cluster #

Load the prepared ShturvalServicePatch into the GUI. After downloading, it will take time for the changes to be applied.

Import manifest #

Step 3: Check the application #

In the cluster GUI, go to the Services and repositories section → Installed services page → Monitoring module. Monitoring module control component → Manage. The status should be Patched, in Applied ShturvalServicePatch - loaded ShturvalServicePatch.