Wavefront Collector for Kubernetes

Wavefront is a high-performance streaming analytics platform for monitoring and optimizing your environment and applications.

The Wavefront Collector for Kubernetes is an agent that runs as a DaemonSet on each node within a Kubernetes cluster. It collects metrics and events about the cluster and sends them to the Wavefront SaaS service.

Features

Collects real-time data from all layers of a Kubernetes environment
Multiple sources of metrics providing comprehensive insight:
- Kubernetes (kubelet) source: For core kubernetes metrics
- Prometheus source: For scraping prometheus metric endpoints (API server, etcd, NGINX etc)
- Kubernetes state source: For resource state metrics
- Telegraf source: For host and application level metrics
- Systemd source: For host level systemd metrics
Auto discovery of pods and services based on annotation and configuration
Daemonset mode for high scalability with leader election for monitoring cluster level resources
Rich filtering support
Auto reload of configuration changes
Internal metrics for tracking the collector health and configuration

Installation

Refer to the installation instructions.

Configuration

The installation instructions use a default configuration suitable for most use cases. Refer to the documentation for details on all the configuration options.

Building

Build using make and the provided Makefile.

Commonly used make options include:

fmt to go fmt all your code
tests to run all the unit tests
build that creates a local executable
container that uses a docker container to build for consistency and reproducability

Contributing