The User Cluster MLA (Monitoring, Logging & Alerting) stack for the EWC Managed Kubernetes Service provides integrated monitoring, logging, and alerting capabilities for applications and services running in user clusters.

Once enabled for a user cluster, users can centrally access logs and metrics, as well as configure alerts for their clusters, without needing to install or manage any additional software.

You can enable this feature by following means:

With manual cluster creation
Enable User Cluster MLA on an Existing Cluster
Using a Cluster Template to Enable User Cluster MLA

With manual Cluster Creation

If you are creating a cluster manually then enable this feature as shown below:

Add Required Addons

When the cluster has finished provisioning and ready, make sure to add following add-ons:

kube-state-metrics
node-exporter

Also enable to continuously reconcile the add-on.

Access User Cluster MLA

You can access the Grafana and Alertmanager UI as follows:

Enable User Cluster MLA on an Existing Cluster

To enable user cluster MLA on an existing cluster, select user cluster logging and user cluster monitoring options on the cluster edit page as follows:

You probably need to wait now for the relevant components to be installed and get to a ready state as shown below:

Install Addons

Regardless of which method you use to enable user cluster MLA, kube-state-metrics and node-exporter addons need to be installed on the cluster as described above.

Using a Cluster Template to Enable User Cluster MLA

You can also use a provided cluster template to create a cluster with user cluster MLA already enabled. These templates have names ending in mla and are usually using larger nodes. Create a cluster from template as follows:

Wait for the cluster to be provisioned and all components getting to a ready state: