Metrics

PipeCD comes with a monitoring system including Prometheus, Alertmanager, and Grafana. This page walks you through how to set up and use them.

Enable monitoring system

To enable monitoring system for PipeCD, you first need to set the following value to helm install when installing.

--set monitoring.enabled=true

Dashboards

If you’ve already enabled monitoring system in the previous section, you can access Grafana using port forwarding:

kubectl port-forward -n {NAMESPACE} svc/{PIPECD_RELEASE_NAME}-grafana 3000:80

Control Plane dashboards

There are three dashboards related to Control Plane:

• Overview - usage stats of PipeCD
• Incoming Requests - gRPC and HTTP requests stats to check for any negative impact on users
• Go - processes stats of PipeCD components

Piped dashboards

TODO

Cluster dashboards

Because cluster dashboards tracks cluster-wide metrics, defaults to disable. You can enable it with:

--monitoring.clusterStats=true

There are three dashboards that track metrics for:

• Node - nodes stats within the Kubernetes cluster where PipeCD runs on
• Pod - stats for pods that make PipeCD up
• Prometheus - stats for Prometheus itself

Alert notifications

If you want to send alert notifications to external services like Slack, you need to set an alertmanager configuration file.

For example, let’s say you use Slack as a receiver. Create values.yaml and put the following configuration to there.

prometheus:
  alertmanagerFiles:
    alertmanager.yml:
      global:
        slack_api_url: {YOUR_WEBHOOK_URL}
      route:
        receiver: slack-notifications
      receivers:
        - name: slack-notifications
          slack_configs:
            - channel: '#your-channel'

And give it to the helm install command when installing.

--values=values.yaml

See here for more details on AlertManager’s configuration.