Setup "Stackdriver Kubernetes Monitoring" for AWS

Question

Google Cloud Platform announced "Stackdriver Kubernetes Monitoring" at Kubecon 2018. It looks awesome.

I am an AWS user running a few Kubernetes clusters and immediately had envy, until I saw that it also supported AWS and "on prem".

Stackdriver Kubernetes Engine Monitoring

This is where I am getting a bit lost.

1. I cannot find any documentation for helping me deploy the agents onto my Kubernetes clusters. The closest example I could find was here: Manual installation of Stackdriver support, but the agents are polling for "internal" GCP metadata services.

   E0512 05:14:12 7f47b6ff5700 environment.cc:100 Exception: Host not found (authoritative): 'http://metadata.google.internal./computeMetadata/v1/instance/attributes/cluster-name'
   

2. I'm not sure the Stackdriver dashboard has "Stackdriver Kubernetes Monitoring" turned on. I don't seem to have the same interface as the demo on YouTube here

I'm not sure if this is something which will get turned on when I configure the agents correctly, or something I'm missing.

I think I might be missing some "getting started" documentation which takes me through the setup.

Answer 1

As per this article, currently Stackdriver Kubernetes Monitoring beta release only supports Kubernetes version v1.10.2 clusters running on Google Cloud Platform's Kubernetes Engine. To track when this feature will be available in AWS, I suggest creating a feature request in Public Issue Tracker.

Answer 2

You can use a Stackdriver partner service, Blue Medora BindPlane, to monitor AWS Kubernetes or almost anything else in AWS for that matter or on-premise. Here's an article from Google Docs about the partnership: About Blue Medora; you can signup for BindPlane through the Google Cloud Platform Marketplace.

It looks like BindPlane is handling deprecated Stackdriver monitoring agents. Google Cloud: Transition guide for deprecated third-party integrations

Answer 3

Stackdriver monitoring of Amazon EKS, Azure AKS, and general purpose Kubernetes running on non--GCP hosted VMs is available if you enable the BindPlane option for Stackdriver.

https://cloud.google.com/stackdriver/blue-medora