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AKS Monitoring with Container Insights

📖 Scenario: You are managing an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster for a small company. You want to monitor the cluster's health and performance using Azure Monitor's Container Insights. This will help you see how your containers are running and catch problems early.

🎯 Goal: Set up Container Insights monitoring on an AKS cluster by creating a resource group, enabling monitoring with Azure CLI commands, and then verifying the monitoring status.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create an Azure resource group named monitoring-rg in the eastus region

Create an AKS cluster named myAKSCluster in the monitoring-rg resource group

Enable Container Insights monitoring on the AKS cluster using Azure CLI

Verify the monitoring addon is enabled on the AKS cluster

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Monitoring AKS clusters with Container Insights helps keep applications healthy and performant by providing real-time metrics and logs.

💼 Career

DevOps engineers and cloud administrators use these skills to maintain Kubernetes clusters and ensure smooth operations in production.

1

Create Azure Resource Group

Use the Azure CLI command az group create to create a resource group named monitoring-rg in the eastus region.

Azure

# Use az group create to make the resource group
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Remember to use the exact resource group name monitoring-rg and location eastus.

2

Create AKS Cluster

Use the Azure CLI command az aks create to create an AKS cluster named myAKSCluster in the resource group monitoring-rg. Use --generate-ssh-keys to create SSH keys automatically.

Azure

az group create --name monitoring-rg --location eastus
# Use az aks create to make the AKS cluster
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Make sure to use the exact cluster name myAKSCluster and resource group monitoring-rg.

3

Enable Container Insights Monitoring

Enable Container Insights monitoring on the AKS cluster myAKSCluster in resource group monitoring-rg using the Azure CLI command az aks enable-addons with the addon name monitoring.

Azure

az group create --name monitoring-rg --location eastus
az aks create --resource-group monitoring-rg --name myAKSCluster --generate-ssh-keys
# Enable monitoring addon on the AKS cluster
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use the exact addon name monitoring to enable Container Insights.

4

Verify Monitoring Addon Status

Use the Azure CLI command az aks show with --resource-group monitoring-rg and --name myAKSCluster to check if the monitoring addon is enabled. Then print the addonProfiles section from the output.

Azure

az group create --name monitoring-rg --location eastus
az aks create --resource-group monitoring-rg --name myAKSCluster --generate-ssh-keys
az aks enable-addons --resource-group monitoring-rg --name myAKSCluster --addons monitoring
# Show the AKS cluster details and print addonProfiles
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use --query addonProfiles to filter the output to the addons section.