Monitoring

This guide introduces how to observe an Axual Platform: the logs, metrics and traces its components emit, and the stack that collects them. Axual does not ship that stack, so this group covers what the platform produces and how to point an existing Prometheus, Grafana, log and tracing setup at it. The end-user metrics inside Self-Service are a different subject, covered in Client Metrics in the Self-Service Guide.

Type

Reference

Goal

Find how to collect and read one of the three signals the platform emits, and how to alert on them.

Audience

Platform Operators, working with whoever runs the organisation’s central monitoring stack.

When to use

Stage 7 of The installation order. It can run alongside stages 3 to 5, and belongs before anyone relies on the platform.

Observability means understanding a running system from the outside, asking questions of it without knowing its internals, so a problem nobody anticipated can still be diagnosed. That depends on the system emitting the signals to ask those questions of: logs, metrics and traces, the three pillars of observability.

The platform emits all three. The pages in this section cover them in the order they are usually needed:

Collecting the signals is only half of it. Alerts fire on metrics, and Acting on Alerts covers what to do when one fires.