Qubership Monitoring Operator

A comprehensive Kubernetes operator that simplifies the deployment and management of production-ready monitoring stacks. Built to handle complex monitoring environments with minimal operational overhead while providing maximum flexibility and scalability.

What is Qubership Monitoring Operator?

The Qubership Monitoring Operator is a cloud-native solution that automates the deployment and management of complete monitoring infrastructure on Kubernetes. It orchestrates industry-standard monitoring tools and provides a unified interface for comprehensive observability.

Key Benefits

• Automated Management: Deploy and manage complex monitoring stacks with a single custom resource
• Production Ready: Battle-tested configurations optimized for enterprise environments
• Multi-Stack Support: Choose between VictoriaMetrics or Prometheus based on your needs
• Resource Efficient: VictoriaMetrics uses 2-5x less RAM compared to Prometheus
• Cloud Native: Seamless integration with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud platforms
• Complete Observability: Metrics collection, visualization, alerting, and autoscaling in one package
• Zero Downtime: Rolling updates and high availability configurations out of the box

What You Get

Core Components

• Time Series Database: VictoriaMetrics or Prometheus for metrics storage
• Visualization: Grafana with pre-built dashboards for Kubernetes and applications
• Alerting: AlertManager or VMAlert for intelligent alert management
• Metrics Collection: Automated discovery and scraping of application metrics
• Autoscaling: Horizontal Pod Autoscaler integration with custom metrics

Included Exporters

• Infrastructure: node-exporter, kube-state-metrics for Kubernetes insights
• Security: cert-exporter for TLS certificate monitoring
• Network: blackbox-exporter for endpoint monitoring and network latency tracking
• Cloud Platforms: AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Google Cloud Operations exporters
• Custom: JSON exporter for REST APIs, version exporter for application versioning
• Events: cloud-events-exporter for CloudEvents monitoring

Integrations

• Graphite: graphite-remote-adapter for Graphite integration
• Load Balancing: promxy for high availability and federation

Architecture

graph TB
    subgraph "Deployment & Management"
        HELM[Helm Chart]
        MO[Monitoring Operator]
        PM[PlatformMonitoring CR]
    end
    
    subgraph "Core Monitoring Stack"
        VM[VictoriaMetrics OR Prometheus Stack]
        GRAF[Grafana]
        AM[AlertManager]
    end
    
    subgraph "Metrics Sources"
        CLOUDS[Public Clouds<br/>AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Google Cloud Operations]
        LOCAL[Local Metrics<br/>Kubernetes, Infrastructure, Network, Applications]
    end
    
    subgraph "External Integrations"
        NOTIF[Notifications<br/>Slack, Email, PagerDuty]
    end
    
    %% Deployment flow
    HELM -->|deploys| MO
    MO -->|watches| PM
    PM -->|configures| VM
    PM -->|configures| GRAF
    PM -->|configures| AM
    
    %% Data flow
    CLOUDS -->|metrics| VM
    LOCAL -->|metrics| VM
    
    %% Visualization & Alerting
    GRAF -->|queries| VM
    AM -->|alerts from| VM
    AM -->|sends| NOTIF
    
    %% Styling
    classDef management fill:#e3f2fd,stroke:#1976d2,stroke-width:2px
    classDef core fill:#f3e5f5,stroke:#7b1fa2,stroke-width:2px
    classDef sources fill:#e8f5e8,stroke:#388e3c,stroke-width:2px
    classDef external fill:#fff3e0,stroke:#f57c00,stroke-width:2px
    
    class HELM,MO,PM management
    class VM,GRAF,AM core
    class CLOUDS,LOCAL sources
    class NOTIF external

Quick Start

Prerequisites

• Kubernetes 1.19+ cluster
• Helm 3.0+
• kubectl configured for your cluster

1. Install the Operator

Install from source:

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/Netcracker/qubership-monitoring-operator.git
cd qubership-monitoring-operator

# Install the operator from local charts
# This will automatically create a PlatformMonitoring resource with default configuration
helm install monitoring-operator charts/qubership-monitoring-operator \
  --namespace monitoring \
  --create-namespace

What gets installed automatically:

• Monitoring Operator - manages monitoring stack lifecycle
• VictoriaMetrics Operator - enabled
• VictoriaMetrics Single - time series database with 14d retention
• VictoriaMetrics Agent - metrics collector
• VictoriaMetrics Alert - alerting component
• VictoriaMetrics AlertManager - alert manager
• VictoriaMetrics Auth - authentication proxy
• Grafana - visualization with pre-built dashboards
• Grafana Operator - manages Grafana instances
• kube-state-metrics - Kubernetes metrics collector
• node-exporter - infrastructure metrics collector
• Common Dashboards - essential monitoring dashboards
• Prometheus Rules - basic alerting rules

What's disabled by default:

• All cloud exporters (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• All optional exporters (blackbox, cert, json, etc.)
• Prometheus Adapter for HPA
• Integrations (Graphite, Promxy)

2. Verify Installation

# Check that monitoring operator is running
kubectl get pods -n monitoring -l "app.kubernetes.io/part-of=monitoring"

# Check PlatformMonitoring resource (created automatically by Helm)
kubectl get platformmonitoring -n monitoring

# Wait for all components to be ready
kubectl get pods -n monitoring

3. Access Your Monitoring

# Get Grafana admin password
kubectl get secret monitoring-grafana-admin -n monitoring -o jsonpath="{.data.password}" | base64 -d

# Port forward to access Grafana
kubectl port-forward -n monitoring svc/monitoring-grafana 3000:3000

# Open http://localhost:3000 (admin/password from above)

Documentation

Quick Guides

• Installation Guide - Detailed installation instructions
• Configuration Guide - Complete configuration options
• Troubleshooting - Common issues and solutions

API Reference

• PlatformMonitoring - Main custom resource reference
• PrometheusAdapter - HPA metrics adapter configuration

Default Monitoring

• Metrics - Out-of-the-box metrics collection
• Alerts - Pre-configured alerting rules
• Dashboards - Built-in Grafana dashboards

Examples

• Service Monitoring - Monitor your applications
• Cloud Watch Integration - Cloud provider integrations

Architecture

• Architecture Overview - Detailed system architecture

Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please see our Contributing Guide for details.

Development Setup

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/Netcracker/qubership-monitoring-operator.git
cd qubership-monitoring-operator

# Install dependencies
go mod download

# Run tests
make test

# Run locally
make run

License

This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0 - see the LICENSE file for details.

Support

• Documentation: Full Documentation
• Issues: GitHub Issues

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