fortigate_exporter
Prometheus exporter for Fortigate firewalls (by bluecmd)
kube-state-metrics
Add-on agent to generate and expose cluster-level metrics. (by kubernetes)
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fortigate_exporter
Posts with mentions or reviews of fortigate_exporter.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-02.
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Automation in Security Fabric
We just feed every data point of our FortiGates into our monitoring system with the prometheus exporter: https://github.com/bluecmd/fortigate_exporter
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30E memory steadily increases by 1% every ~40 minutes, but will immediately reduce when I log in to the web interface
A quick google search shows that this is a known issue with firmware versions below 6.4.x when using the fortigate_exporter plugin for Prometheus (which I am), which is a shame because the the latest firmware for the 30E is 6.2.10.
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Fortigate SNMP respoding "401 Unauthorized"
If you get 401 - seems you need to configure FortiGate like here https://github.com/bluecmd/fortigate_exporter and SNMP configuration is not needed. Otherwise you can check SNMP with snmpwalk.
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Fortigate Exporter for Prometheus
A few months back I created an exporter using the Fortigate API to enable people to monitor their Fortigate firewalls using Prometheus. You can find it here: https://github.com/bluecmd/fortigate_exporter.
kube-state-metrics
Posts with mentions or reviews of kube-state-metrics.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-11.
- Do we have any Prometheus metric to get the kubernetes cluster-level CPU/Memory requests/limits?
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10 Kubernetes Visualization Tool that You Can't Afford to Miss
git clone https://github.com/kubernetes/kube-state-metrics.git
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Why is the Prometheus metric 'kube_pod_completion_time' returning empty query results?
https://github.com/kubernetes/kube-state-metrics/blob/main/docs/pod-metrics.md According to this github repo completion is responsible of termination date if I correctly understood .
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Google Kubernetes Engine's metrics vs Self-managed
kube-state-metrics
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Prometheus node exporter and cadvisor to send metrics to central prometheus cluster
Those are entirely different types of data. You can get that from something like kube-state-metrics
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Scaling kube-state-metrics in large cluster
I've never had a cluster of that size, so take it with a grain of salt - but maybe you could try purpose-based sharding? KSM has allowlist and denylist config flags, for configuring which metrics it exposes https://github.com/kubernetes/kube-state-metrics/blob/main/docs/cli-arguments.md
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Questions about Kubernetes
Kubernetes itself will not notify you, the way I've seen people do this, is to use something like kube-state-metrics or node_exporter, export that to Prometheus (or preferrably VictoriaMetrics because Prometheus is terrible IMO), and then setup alarms on that with alertmanager or equivalent, or just look at dashboards regularly with Grafana. Realistically I recommend only setting alerts on disk usage and application/database latency. CPU and memory utilization isn't a great metric to alert on a lot of the time.
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EKS scalability best practices
Another tip that you could consider spelling out a little more, is to monitor the number of resources created by Kind. This is somewhat mentioned for jobs and services, but any Kind of which thousands of resources are created will put stress on the control-plane. The total number of resources per namespace/cluster can be monitored with kube-state-metrics. KSM does not emit metrics of resources created from CRDs. These metrics can be implemented with KSM's custom resource state metrics: https://github.com/kubernetes/kube-state-metrics/blob/main/docs/customresourcestate-metrics.md
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Observability-Landscape-as-Code in Practice
We then have various other Metrics called Kubernetes Workload Metrics. These are the dashboards with names that start with “Kubernetes / Compute Resources / Workload”. These dashboards are specific to the services you are running. They take into account the Kubernetes Workloads in your various namespaces, using kube-state-metrics. For a closer look, check out otel_demo_app_k8s_dashboard.tf.
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Kubernetes Costs: Effective Cost Optimization Strategies To Reduce Your k8s Bill
The first step to optimizing costs is gaining visibility into your costs using tools. Kubernetes provides a Metrics Server and kube-state-metrics that can give you the overall picture of resource utilization by your cluster. There are more tools that provide more granular breakdowns and provide dashboards with business metrics, infra cost, and alerting functionalities. Here are some strategies to optimize your resource utilization and cloud bills on k8s.