Sysdig Setup
Complete the steps for setting up the Sysdig tool
Overview
Sysdig is the environment’s monitoring tool. Before you can use it as part of the environment, you must finish setting up the new instance.
Setup
Finish setting up the new Sysdig instance. If this is your first time opening the Sysdig dashboard, Sysdig will open a platform dialog and an Onboarding wizard.
Select the platform
- On the Welcome to Sysdig Monitor panel click Next
- Choose Kubernetes | GKE | OpenShift as the installation method
- The agent is already installed in the cluster, so click Go to next step! to access the dashboard
Configure the monitoring agent
The first page shows the hosts (i.e. Kubernetes nodes) and containers that Sysdig found, as well as the integrations it has selected to monitor them
Notice there are different types of integrations for different types of runtimes such as Java, servers such as Tomcat,
and even infrasturcture integrations for monitoring the Kubernetes cluster itself and its containerd engines.Press Next
The second page shows the predefined metrics, dashboards, and alerts that Sysdig will start using to monitor the apps in your cluster
Press Complete Onboarding
Conclusion
The environment’s Sysdig instance is now setup and ready for developers to use.