Alibaba Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus allows you to install and configure the Cluster Event Collection exporter. This way, you can collect and store the events that are generated by Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) clusters. Managed Service for Prometheus also provides out-of-the-box dashboards that you can use to monitor your ACK cluster.

Limit

You can install the component only for Prometheus for Container Service instances.

Procedure

  1. Log on to the Managed Service for Prometheus console.
  2. In the left-side navigation pane, click Monitoring List.
  3. Click the name of the Prometheus instance instance that you want to manage to go to the Integration Center page.

Install the Cluster Event Collection exporter

In the uninstalled section of the Integration Center page, find the Event exporter and click Install. In the message that appears, click OK.

The installed components are displayed in the Installed section of the Integration Center page. Click the component. In the panel that appears, you can view information such as targets, metrics, dashboard, alerts, service discovery configurations, and exporters. For more information, see Integration center.

View monitoring data

Click the Event exporter. In the panel that appears, you can view the data of collected cluster events on the Dashboards tab. In the left-side navigation pane, click Dashboards. On the Dashboards page, click the dashboard whose name is Kubernetes Overview Pro to view the data of collected cluster events.