Monitoring Managed Cloud Standard

Current version: 10.2

You can stay constantly updated on the performance and availability of your Managed Cloud solution by using the built-in monitoring services:

  • Metrics exporters - libraries that help to export metrics from services and infrastructure to an existing Prometheus server.

  • Prometheus - scrapes metrics from services, aggregates and stores data, and allows other services such as Grafana to collect such metrics.

  • Grafana - collects metrics from Prometheus and visualizes them.

Monitoring services in Managed Cloud containers overview.

Authentication in Grafana

Grafana is integrated with the Azure Active directory and Basic Authentication is disabled. Therefore, you must choose the Sign in with Microsoft authentication option and use your Microsoft work account.

Login to Grafana with Microsoft account

Dashboards

You can search for dashboards by the dashboard name, filtered by one (or many) tags or filtered by starred status. You can access dashboard search through the dashboard picker, available in the dashboard top navigation area. You can also open dashboard search by using the shortcut F.

Dashboard search in Grafana

The following default dashboards are available:

Dashboard

Description

Container overview

Lists all containers with their namespace and pod. Provides the status of each container and the total number of healthy/unhealthy and/or stopped containers.

Host Disk Overview (Linux only)

Exposes node filesystem and disk I/O metrics such as read-write time spent, the filesystem available space, and so on.

Host Disk Overview (Windows only)

States the filesystem available space.

Ingress Overview

Provides the Ingress metrics for each Sitecore role and Grafana.

Kubernetes Cluster

Provides a high-level overview of the Kubernetes cluster.

Kubernetes Pod Overview

Exposes memory and CPU request, limits, and utilization per pod for all namespaces including system. It provides live logs.

Linux Node Overview

Provides detailed information about Memory/CPU/Disk utilization for each Linux Node.

MsSql Elastic Pool

Provides detailed information about MsSql Elastic Pool utilization.

Redis Server Overview

Exposes general Redis metrics. Similar to native Redis "INFO" command.

Windows Node Overview

Provides detailed information about Memory/CPU/Disk utilization for each Windows node.

Alerts

Alerts proactively notify you when issues are found with your Managed Cloud solution. They allow you to identify and address issues before the users of your system notice them. The following table lists the available alerts:

Description

Condition

Resource

Period

Node statistic

Memory percentage is >95%

The node memory utilization percentage is more than 95%.

Kubernetes node

10 minutes

CPU percentage is >95%

The CPU load percentage is more than 95%.

Kubernetes node

10 minutes

Infrastructure

Pod is not ready for 30m

Pod status != ready

Kubernetes pod

30 minutes

Kubelet is down

The kubelet job is down for the last 15 minutes.

Kubernetes job

15 minutes

Pod is restarting frequently

The Pod is restarted at least once per 5 minutes.

Kubernetes pod

1 hour

Deployment generation mismatch

The deployment has failed but has not been rolled back.

Kubernetes deployment

15 minutes

Deployment replicas mismatch

Deployment has not matched the expected number of replicas for longer than an hour.

Kubernetes deployment

1 hour

DaemonSet pods not ready

Not all of the desired pods are scheduled and ready.

Kubernetes daemonset

15 minutes

DaemonSet pods not scheduled

Not all of the desired pods are scheduled.

Kubernetes daemonset

10 minutes

DaemonSet pods misscheduled

Pods of DaemonSet are running where they are not supposed to run.

Kubernetes daemonset

1 hour

CPU Throttling is high

Pod CPU throttling percentage is more than 25%.

Kubernetes pod

15 minutes

Warning events occurred

One or more events of type Warning occurred in namespace.

Kubernetes namespace

1 hour

Node is not ready

The node is not ready.

Kubernetes node

1 hour

Kubernetes version mismatch

There are different semantic versions of Kubernetes components running.

Kubernetes

1 hour

Kubernetes API server client is experiencing errors

More than one error in the Kubernetes API server.

Kubernetes

5 minutes

Node is running out of pods capacity

The node pods capacity is more than 95%.

Kubernetes node

15 minutes

Disk space is used for >90%

The node disk space is used for more than 90%.

Kubernetes node

1 hour

Sitecore roles

Http request is 5xx >10

5xx http response is more than 10.

nginx_ingress_controller

10 minutes

Average page response time >1 second

The average response time is more than 1 second.

nginx_ingress_controller

30 minutes

Average page response time >30 seconds

The average response time is more than 30 seconds.

nginx_ingress_controller

5 minutes

Availability tests are on /sitecore/service/keepalive.aspx

The availability tests on /sitecore/service/keepalive.aspx failed.

Sitecore pod

5 minutes

Redis cache

Average number of connected clients in % are >80%

The number of connected clients is more than 80% compared to redis_config_maxclients.

Redis Cache

30 minutes

The server load is >95%

The processor load percentage for Redis is more than 95% over the last 30 minutes.

Redis Cache

30 minutes

MSSQL elastic pool

Database throughput unit (DTU) is >95%

The average throughput unit (DTU) is more than 95%.

30 minutes

Storage percentage is >75%

The average storage percentage is more than 75%.

5 minutes

CPU is >95%

The average CPU usage is more than 95%.

5 minutes

SQL Databases Deadlock

The database is deadlocked.

Data IO percentage is >95%

The average Data IO percentage is more than 95%.

5 minutes

Log IO percentage is >95%

The average Log IO percentage is more than 95%.

5 minutes

Workers percentage is >95%

The maximum workers percentage is more than 95%.

5 minutes

Concurrent sessions supported by the DB tier is >95%

The maximum concurrent sessions supported by the DB tier is more than 95%.

5 minutes

Number of failed database connections >5

The database has 5 connection failures over the last 5 minutes.

5 minutes

Average In-Memory OLTP storage >95%

The average In-Memory OLTP storage is more than 95%.

30 minutes

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