Commit 6bbd3d33 authored by Achilleas Pipinellis's avatar Achilleas Pipinellis

Merge branch '37739-improve-nginx-ingress-configuration-docs' into 'master'

Improve nginx ingress configuration docs

Closes #37739

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!14203
parents 93e189c4 c68adcba
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| Latency (ms) | avg(nginx_upstream_response_msecs_avg{upstream=~"%{kube_namespace}-%{ci_environment_slug}-.*"}) |
| HTTP Error Rate (HTTP Errors / sec) | sum(rate(nginx_upstream_responses_total{status_code="5xx", upstream=~"%{kube_namespace}-%{ci_environment_slug}-.*"}[2m])) |
## Configuring Prometheus to monitor for NGINX ingress metrics
## Configuring NGINX ingress monitoring
If you have deployed with the [gitlab-omnibus](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/install/kubernetes/gitlab_omnibus.md) Helm chart, and your application is running in the same cluster, no further action is required. The ingress metrics will be automatically enabled and annotated for Prometheus monitoring. Simply ensure Prometheus monitoring is [enabled for your project](../prometheus.md), which is on by default.
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* NGINX Ingress should be annotated for Prometheus monitoring
* Prometheus should be configured to monitor annotated pods
### Configuring NGINX Ingress for Prometheus monitoring
### Setting up NGINX Ingress for Prometheus monitoring
Version 0.9.0 and above of [NGINX ingress](https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress/tree/master/controllers/nginx) have built-in support for exporting Prometheus metrics. To enable, a ConfigMap setting must be passed: `enable-vts-status: "true"`. Once enabled, a Prometheus metrics endpoint will start running on port 10254.
With metric data now available, Prometheus needs to be configured to collect it. The easiest way to do this is to leverage Prometheus' [built-in Kubernetes service discovery](https://prometheus.io/docs/operating/configuration/#kubernetes_sd_config), which automatically detects a variety of Kubernetes components and makes them available for monitoring. NGINX ingress metrics are exposed per pod, a sample scrape configuration [is available](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/blob/master/documentation/examples/prometheus-kubernetes.yml#L248). This configuration will detect pods and enable collection of metrics **only if** they have been specifically annotated for monitoring.
With metric data now available, Prometheus needs to be configured to collect it. The easiest way to do this is to leverage Prometheus' [built-in Kubernetes service discovery](https://prometheus.io/docs/operating/configuration/#kubernetes_sd_config), which automatically detects a variety of Kubernetes components and makes them available for monitoring. Since NGINX ingress metrics are exposed per pod, a scrape job for Kubernetes pods is required. A sample pod scraping configuration [is available](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/blob/master/documentation/examples/prometheus-kubernetes.yml#L248). This configuration will detect pods and enable collection of metrics **only if** they have been specifically annotated for monitoring.
Depending on how NGINX ingress was deployed, typically a DaemonSet or Deployment, edit the corresponding YML spec. Two new annotations need to be added:
* `prometheus.io/port: "true"`
* `prometheus.io/scrape: "true"`
* `prometheus.io/port: "10254"`
Prometheus should now be collecting NGINX ingress metrics. To validate view the Prometheus Targets, available under `Status > Targets` on the Prometheus dashboard. New entries for NGINX should be listed in the kubernetes pod monitoring job, `kubernetes-pods`.
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