Monitor Apps & Infrastructure In OpenShift
Blog post from New Relic
Red Hat OpenShift is a managed Kubernetes platform designed to simplify the deployment and management of container-based applications. It offers various services, like an integrated container registry and a runtime built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS, to streamline Kubernetes operations. However, due to the transient nature of Kubernetes workflows, advanced monitoring is crucial, which is where New Relic's integration comes in, providing comprehensive visibility into clusters at every level, including nodes, pods, and applications. As an officially certified OpenShift partner, New Relic offers infrastructure-centric and application-centric insights, with features like alerting and dashboards to monitor resource consumption and application performance. The integration involves setting up New Relic's Infrastructure agent as a Kubernetes DaemonSet and using kube-state-metrics to gather necessary metrics, enabling detailed monitoring of OpenShift environments. Users can link their New Relic APM data with OpenShift data for enhanced application performance monitoring, while also benefiting from distributed tracing and alert policies to manage resource consumption and performance issues effectively.