Kubernetes Solution

This guide provides an end-to-end solution for deploying, managing, monitoring, and administering your Kubernetes environment. You can view topics from the following list in the order of your choice, or navigate the structured path at the top of the About the Sumo Logic Kubernetes Solution page for a complete end-to-end experience. 

In this section, we will introduce the following concepts:

📄️ About the Sumo Logic Kubernetes Solution

The Sumo Logic Kubernetes Solution provides an end-to-end experience that takes you from configuring collection and installing apps, to monitoring, managing, and troubleshooting your Kubernetes environment.

📄️ Set up collection for Kubernetes

This page provides an overview of the collection process for Kubernetes environments.

📄️ Monitor Kubernetes Effectively

This page provides insights for effectively monitoring your Kubernetes environment with Sumo Logic, and is organized according to the individual areas of the Kubernetes architecture.

📄️ Master metadata for intuitive searches

You can create fields with key-value pairs that label logs with custom metadata. Referencing log data with fields based on meaningful associations makes searches easier and more intuitive. Sumo Logic allows you to add custom fields to collectors that define key-value pairs at the source level. The custom fields in the metadata streams are then automatically extracted for searching, querying, and graphing. This allows you to view results for intuitively referenced subsets not traditionally tagged as source categories.

📄️ View Sumo Logic Kubernetes App Dashboards

Sumo Logic combines metrics, logs, and events to a create real-time unified view of the performance, uptime, and security of your Kubernetes environment, The Sumo Logic Kubernetes Solution leverages the standards endorsed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), and utilizes the extensive ecosystem of existing integrations for monitoring and troubleshooting Kubernetes platforms.

📄️ Explore a visual Kubernetes hierarchy

Explore is an intuitive navigational framework that provides a visual map of the hierarchy of your Kubernetes environment. It allows you to easily traverse the hierarchy and filter the display to focus on deployments, nodes, services, or namespaces. Explore accomplishes this by translating metadata fields into an easy to understand mental model so you can quickly check system states at various levels and proactively troubleshoot issues.

📄️ Troubleshoot with Explore

Explore navigation allows you to quickly locate the object in a physical stack that needs to be debugged. This page walks you through a high-level troubleshooting scenario to illustrate the possibilities.

📄️ Global Intelligence for Kubernetes DevOps App

Availability

📄️ Kubernetes Alerts

To help determine if the Kubernetes cluster is available and performing well, the Sumo Logic monitors are provided with out of box alerts.

📄️ Navigate your Kubernetes environment

This page shows you how to quickly access Explore and navigate your Kubernetes environment. As you navigate, data for your selection is shown in the dashboard on the right. Metric and log data is viewable on the same dashboard in one integrated, seamless view.

📄️ Next Steps

You've set up collection, installed Kubernetes apps, and familiarized yourself with the dashboards. Now you want to become more adept at monitoring and troubleshooting your applications in your Kubernetes environment. Here are a few options for you to explore.