The alicloud-monitor-controller component is a system component provided by ACK for integration with CloudMonitor. This topic introduces alicloud-monitor-controller and describes the usage notes and release notes for alicloud-monitor-controller.
Introduction
The alicloud-monitor-controller component is a system component provided by ACK for integration with CloudMonitor. When you create, update, or delete an application, alicloud-monitor-controller will automatically synchronize the metadata of the application to CloudMonitor in order to monitor the containers of the application. In addition, alicloud-monitor-controller provides the alert template feature which can be enabled in the ACK console.
Usage notes
For more information about how to use alicloud-monitor-controller, see Alert management.
Release notes
December 2023
Version number | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
v1.8.5 | registry.{REGION}.aliyuncs.com/acs/alicloud-monitor-controller:v1.8.5-88ba904-aliyun | 2023-12-25 | Distributed Cloud Container Platform for Kubernetes (ACK One) or registered clusters can be automatically configured and default alert rules can be created in different network environments. | No impact on workloads |
August 2023
Version number | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
v1.8.4 | registry.{REGION}.aliyuncs.com/acs/alicloud-monitor-controller:v1.8.4-d2d72d6-aliyun | 2023-08-14 |
| No impact on workloads |
July 2023
Version number | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
v1.8.3 | registry.{REGION}.aliyuncs.com/acs/alicloud-monitor-controller:v1.8.3-d2d72d6-aliyun | 2023-07-25 |
| No impact on workloads |
February 2023
Version number | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
v1.8.0-7c28347-aliyun | registry.{REGION}.aliyuncs.com/acs/alicloud-monitor-controller:v1.8.0-7c28347-aliyun | 2023-02-24 |
| No impact on workloads |
July 2022
Version number | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
v1.6.5-2c5c836-aliyun | registry.{REGION}.aliyuncs.com/acs/alicloud-monitor-controller:v1.6.5-2c5c836-aliyun | 2022-07-07 |
| No impact on workloads |
April 2022
Version number | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
v1.6.1-aa20856-aliyun | registry.{REGION}.aliyuncs.com/acs/alicloud-monitor-controller:v1.6.1-aa20856-aliyun | 2022-04-15 |
| No impact on workloads |
March 2022
Version number | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
v1.5.15-ed0a4c72-aliyun | registry.{REGION}.aliyuncs.com/acs/alicloud-monitor-controller:v1.5.15-ed0a4c72-aliyun | 2022-03-02 |
| No impact on workloads |
November 2021
Version number | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
v1.5.13-6990db0e-aliyun | registry.{REGION}.aliyuncs.com/acs/alicloud-monitor-controller:v1.5.13-6990db0e-aliyun | 2021-11-04 | Default alert rules for basic cluster resources are supported by the ACK alert center. | No impact on workloads |
August 2021
Version number | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
v1.5.12-f7aedb4a-aliyun | registry.{REGION}.aliyuncs.com/acs/alicloud-monitor-controller:v1.5.12-f7aedb4a-aliyun | 2021-08-23 | The alerting configurations are optimized. | No impact on workloads |
v1.5.10-a75e4ee2-aliyun | registry.{REGION}.aliyuncs.com/acs/alicloud-monitor-controller:v1.5.10-a75e4ee2-aliyun | 2021-08-19 | The alerting configurations are optimized. | No impact on workloads |
April 2021
Version number | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
v1.5.7-e1d5de8a-aliyun | registry.{REGION}.aliyuncs.com/acs/alicloud-monitor-controller:v1.5.7-e1d5de8a-aliyun | 2021-04-23 | Event alerting is supported. Alerts can be configured based on events by using CustomResourceDefinitions (CRDs). | No impact on workloads |
July 2020
Version number | Image address | Release date | Description | Impact |
v1.4.0-49ff2362-aliyun | registry.{REGION}.aliyuncs.com/acs/alicloud-monitor-controller:v1.4.0-49ff2362-aliyun | 2020-07-24 |
| No impact on workloads |
Diagnostics
No application group is found in the CloudMonitor console
Perform the following checks:
Check whether the pod where alicloud-monitor-controller is deployed runs as normal in the kube-system namespace.
Check whether alicloud-monitor-controller is updated to the latest version. We recommend that you update the component to the latest version.
Check the log file of alicloud-monitor-controller for connection timeout errors and SDK errors.
If no error is found after you have performed the preceding checks, use the following ticket template to submit a ticket.
Ticket template
Is alicloud-monitor-controller updated to the latest version?
Yes
Are SDK errors or connection timeout errors found in the log file of alicloud-monitor-controller? If these errors are found, delete the pod.
No such errors are found. The issue persists after the pod is recreated.
Provide the complete log of alicloud-monitor-controller in the ticket.
Compress the log file and then upload it.
No data is found in the application group in the CloudMonitor console
Perform the following checks:
Check whether the name of the instance in the application group is the same as that of the pod where alicloud-monitor-controller is deployed.
If the instance name is different from the pod name, perform the steps provided in the preceding section.
If the instance name is the same as the pod name, check whether the pod where the metrics-server component is deployed runs as normal. Check whether log data is collected as normal. If the
Successful write 164190 bytes metrics to monitor servermessage is found in the log, log data is collected as normal.
If no error is found after you have performed the preceding checks, use the following ticket template to submit a ticket.
Ticket template
Is the name of the instance in the application group the same as that of the pod where alicloud-monitor-controller is deployed?
Yes
Can the log of metrics-server in the kube-system namespace be printed as normal?
Yes
Provide the cluster ID, application name, and pod name in the ticket.