K8 Telegraf Daemon

Deploy Telegraf as a daemonset into your Kubernetes environment to collect and forward performance metrics from your clusters

• Clone the telegraf-daemonset repository from the MetricFire GitHub: https://github.com/metricfire/telegraf-daemonset/

telegraf-daemonset/
├── kustomization.yaml
└── resources/
    ├── config.yaml
    ├── daemonset.yaml
    ├── namespace.yaml
    ├── role.yaml
    ├── role-binding.yaml
    └── service_account.yaml

• Add your HG API KEY to the resources/config.yaml file

• Point your kubectl command line utility to the context of the cluster you wish to monitor: kubectl config use-context

• Deploy the kustomization.yaml manifest into your cluster: kubectl apply -k .

• Generate the Kubernetes Overview dashboard from our Dashboard Library to visualize performance metrics from your nodes, containers, pods, and more!

Kubernetes Overview dashboard

• See more configuration options in the official GitHub repo HERE, and our detailed blog article around deploying the Telegraf daemonset HERE.