Monitoring Enterprise

Weave GitOps Enterprise provides the following telemetry to use for monitoring.

Metrics

It generates Prometheus metrics for monitoring both performance and business operations.

Setup

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This setup follows Flux Monitoring approach based on Prometheus Operator. Adapt it to your context as needed.

1. Install Kube Prometheus Stack.

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apiVersion: source.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v1
kind: GitRepository
metadata:
  name: weave-gitops-quickstart
  namespace: flux-system
spec:
  interval: 10m0s
  ref:
    branch: main
  url: https://github.com/weaveworks/weave-gitops-quickstart
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Namespace
metadata:
  name: monitoring
---
apiVersion: kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v1
kind: Kustomization
metadata:
  name: kube-prometheus-stack
  namespace: flux-system
spec:
  interval: 10m0s
  sourceRef:
    kind: GitRepository
    name: weave-gitops-quickstart
  path: ./monitoring/kube-prometheus-stack
  prune: true
  targetNamespace: monitoring
  wait: true

2. Enable Prometheus Metrics Configuration happens during releasing as shown below.

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---
apiVersion: helm.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v2beta1
kind: HelmRelease
metadata:
  name: weave-gitops-enterprise
  namespace: flux-system
spec:
  values:
    #### Metrics - Prometheus metrics configuration
    metrics:
      # Enables metrics generation and prometheus endpoint
      enabled: true

3. Deploy Weave GitOps Monitoring Config

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apiVersion: kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v1
kind: Kustomization
metadata:
  name: monitoring-config
  namespace: flux-system
spec:
  interval: 10m0s
  sourceRef:
    kind: GitRepository
    name: weave-gitops-quickstart
  path: ./monitoring/weave-gitops
  dependsOn:
    - name: kube-prometheus-stack
  prune: true
  targetNamespace: monitoring

4. See the dashboards in Grafana

You could filter by tags flux or weave-gitops

Dashboards

Weave Gitops Overview

Monitor Weave Gitops golden signals for API server and Controllers:

Weave Gitops Runtime

Monitor Weave Gitops GO runtime metrics like Memory Usage, Memory Heap, Goroutines, etc ...

Explorer

Monitor Explorer golden signals. More info here