Configure monitoring

Percona Everest integrates with Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) to monitor your database clusters.

Important

To enable monitoring, you must first create a MonitoringConfig that defines your PMM connection and credentials.

Here are the steps to configure monitoring for your database clusters:

1. Store your PMM username and API key in a Kubernetes Secret. Encode both values in Base64 before adding them to the manifest:

   apiVersion: v1
   kind: Secret
   metadata:
       name: pmm-credentials
   type: Opaque
   data:
         username: <YOUR BASE64 ENCODED USERNAME>
         apiKey: <YOUR BASE64 ENCODED API KEY>
   

2. Define a MonitoringConfig.

   Use the secret in a MonitoringConfig CRD:

   apiVersion: everest.percona.com/v1alpha1
   kind: MonitoringConfig
   metadata:
       name: my-monitoring-config
   spec:
       type: pmm
       credentialsSecretName: pmm-credentials
       pmm:
           url: "https://pmm.example.com"
           image: "percona/pmm-client:2.41.0"  # Optional: specify PMM client version
       verifyTLS: true  # Optional: verify TLS certificates
   

3. Enable Monitoring for a DatabaseCluster.

   spec:
     monitoring:
       monitoringConfigName: "my-monitoring-config"
       resources:
         limits:
           cpu: "200m"
           memory: "200Mi"
         requests:
           cpu: "100m"
           memory: "100Mi"