infrastructure-moving-monitoring.adoc

Moving the monitoring solution

By default, the Prometheus Cluster Monitoring stack, which contains Prometheus, Grafana, and AlertManager, is deployed to provide cluster monitoring. It is managed by the Cluster Monitoring Operator. To move its components to different machines, you create and apply a custom ConfigMap.

Procedure

1. Save the following ConfigMap definition as the cluster-monitoring-configmap.yaml file:

   apiVersion: v1
   kind: ConfigMap
   metadata:
     name: cluster-monitoring-config
     namespace: openshift-monitoring
   data:
     config.yaml: |+
       alertmanagerMain:
         nodeSelector:
           node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: ""
       prometheusK8s:
         nodeSelector:
           node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: ""
       prometheusOperator:
         nodeSelector:
           node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: ""
       grafana:
         nodeSelector:
           node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: ""
       k8sPrometheusAdapter:
         nodeSelector:
           node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: ""
       kubeStateMetrics:
         nodeSelector:
           node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: ""
       telemeterClient:
         nodeSelector:
           node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: ""

   Running this ConfigMap forces the components of the monitoring stack to redeploy to infrastructure nodes.

2. Apply the new ConfigMap:

   $ oc create -f cluster-monitoring-configmap.yaml

3. Watch the monitoring Pods move to the new machines:

   $ watch 'oc get pod -n openshift-monitoring -o wide'