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Debugging virtual-kubelet

Metrics

Not implemented.

Tracing

virtual-kubelet uses OpenCensus to record traces. These traces include requests on the HTTP API as well as the reconciliation loop which reconciles virtual-kubelet pods with what's in the Kubernetes API server.

The granularity of traces may depend on the service provider (e.g. azure, aws, etc) being used.

Tracing Exporters

Traces are collected and then exported to any configured exporter. Built-in exporters currently include:

  • jaeger - Jaeger Tracing, supports configuration through environment variables.
    • JAEGER_ENDPOINT - Jaeger HTTP Thrift endpoint, e.g. http://localhost:14268
    • JAGER_AGENT_ENDPOINT - Jaeger agent address, e.g. localhost:6831
    • JAEGER_USER
    • JAEGER_PASSWORD
  • zpages - OpenCensus Zpages. Currently supports configuration through environment variables, but this interface is not considered stable.
    • ZPAGES_PORT - e.g. localhost:8080 sets the address to setup the HTTP server to serve zpages on. Will be available at http://<address>:<port>/debug/tracez

If consuming virtual-kubelet as a library you can configure your own tracing exporter.

Traces propagated from other services must be propagated using Zipkin's B3 format. Other formats may be supported in the future.

Tracing Configuration

  • --trace-exporter - Sets the exporter to use. Multiple exporters can be specified. If this is unset, traces are not exported.
  • --trace-service-name - Sets the name of the service, defaults to virtual-kubelet but can be anything. This value is passed to the exporter purely for display purposes.
  • --trace-tag - Adds tags in a <key>=<value> form which is included with collected traces. Think of this like log tags but for traces.
  • --trace-sample-rate - Sets the probability for traces to be recorded. Traces are considered an expensive operation so you may want to set this to a lower value. Range is a value of 0 to 100 where 0 is never trace and 100 is always trace.