Detailed Course Outline
Module 1 – Course Overview
- Kubernetes Review & Terminology
- Monitoring & metrics review
- Splunk tools for Kubernetes
Module 2 – Kubernetes Tools in Splunk
- Navigator Infrastructure
- Monitoring Tools
- Built-in Kubernetes Dashboards
- Hands-on exploration using these tools
Module 3 – How We Monitor Kubernetes
- How the Smart Agent collects Kubernetes metrics
- Review: About Metrics, Metric Time Series, Properties
- Metrics used to monitor Kubernetes
- Using the Metrics Catalog to explore metrics
Module 4 – Viewing the Details of a Kubernetes Installation
- Viewing a graphical map of your Kubernetes installation
- Multiple ways to view the status of Kubernetes resources
- Viewing Kubernetes events
- Using the Cluster Analyzer to pinpoint the source of trouble
- Creating charts of outlier values and correlations
Module 5 – Dashboard Group for Kubernetes
- Monitoring Kubernetes with the built-in dashboards
- Investigate a problem with dashboards
- Comparison of dashboards vs other Kubernetes tools
- Viewing cluster services
- Create a custom chart
Module 6 – Automate monitoring with Detectors and Alerts
- How detectors are used to monitor a metric
- Common detectors used in monitoring Kubernetes
- Create a detector using multiple methods
- Forwarding Kubernetes resource events into Splunk