Monitoring Microservices: Docker, Kubernetes, and

GKE Visibility at ScaleLuca Marturana

About me

Luca Marturana

Software Engineer at Sysdig

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Development: Docker

• Easy to bundle apps

• Easy to replicate environments

• Fast development

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Production: Kubernetes

• Backed by 10 years of Google experience

• Easy to deploy apps and manage clusters

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Monitoring

Before Kubernetes

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Host

App

Host

App

Single app per host

After Kubernetes

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Host

App App

App

Host

App App

App

Multiple apps on each host!

Monitoring Kubernetes

• Isolate activity of a specific

app

• Resource segmentation

• Get visibility inside

containers!

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Key features of container monitoring solution

• High level explore and segment resource usage by services,

pods, etc

• Low level visibility

• Avoid container instrumentation

• Low overhead

• Smart configuration

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Kubernetes UI

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Heapster

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Low level visibility

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Demo

sysdig

•Capture system events

• Filter, drilldown, explore, aggregate

•Open Source

•Container native

•Support for Kubernetes 1.2!

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What about multi-node?

Demo

Wrap up

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Sysdig fills the gap between traditional monitoring tools and the container

ecosystem

End

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luca3m

luca@sysdig.com