Optional: Preparing to monitor your containers

To be able to monitor your containers, you must have access to either Graphite or Prometheus.

About this task

To forward logs from your containers, access to a hosted local Elasticsearch is required. Kibana is required to view and filter logs from Elasticsearch.

This information helps you to create and collect the settings that you need to enable the containers' logging capabilities and monitoring at deployment time.

Procedure

  1. Ensure that you have an installation of Elasticsearch server to receive logs from the containers.
  2. Ensure that you configured Kibana with Elasticsearch to view and filter logs.
  3. Compile the values for your logging system.
    You specify these values in the custom resource YAML file for operator deployment.

    Use the following reference information to compile the values: Logging parameters

  4. Ensure that you have an installation of Graphite or Prometheus for the monitoring service.
  5. Compile the values for your monitoring system.
    You specify these values in the custom resource YAML file for operator deployment.

    Use the following reference information to compile the values: Monitoring parameters

What to do next

The next task to complete depends on the capabilities that you selected for your deployment. You must prepare all of these capabilities and any dependencies. Go to the next task Optional: Preparing customized versions of JDBC drivers and ICCSAP libraries or jump to the capability in the table of contents or from the parent topic.