Node-agent
is a Prometheus exporter based on eBPF that gathers comprehensive container metrics.
Features
TCP connection tracing
To provide visibility into the relationships between services, the agent traces containers TCP events,
such as connect() and listen().
Exported metrics are useful for:
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Obtaining an actual map of inter-service communications.
It doesn't require integration of distributed tracing frameworks into your code.
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Detecting connections errors from one service to another.
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Measuring network latency between containers, nodes and availability zones.
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Log patterns extraction
Log management is usually quite expensive. In most cases, you do not need to analyze each event individually.
It is enough to extract recurring patterns and the number of the related events.
This approach drastically reduces the amount of data required for express log analysis.
The agent discovers container logs and parses them right on the node.
At the moment the following sources are supported:
- Direct logging to files in /var/log/
- Journald
- Dockerd (JSON file driver)
- Containerd (CRI logs)
To learn more about automated log clustering, check out the blog post
Mining metrics from unstructured logs.
Delay accounting
Delay accounting
allows engineers to accurately identify situations where a container is experiencing a lack of CPU time or waiting for I/O.
The agent gathers per-process counters through Netlink
and aggregates them into per-container metrics:
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Out-of-memory events tracing
metric shows that a container has been terminated by the OOM killer.
Instance meta information
If a node is a cloud instance, the agent identifies a cloud provider and collects additional information using the related metadata services.
Supported cloud providers:
AWS,
GCP,
Azure,
Hetzner
Collected info:
- AccountID
- InstanceID
- Instance/machine type
- Region
- AvailabilityZone
- AvailabilityZoneId (AWS only)
- LifeCycle: on-demand/spot (AWS and GCP only)
- Private & Public IP addresses
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License
Coroot-node-agent is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
The BPF code is licensed under the General Public License, Version 2.0.