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Sensu Kubernetes Events Check

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Discussion

This plugin is in its early stages of development and we welcome your feedback on
it and other future Kubernetes plugins. Please visit the Kubernetes SIG on the
Sensu Community Forums to provide feedback and submit feature requests.

Overview

The Sensu Kubernetes events check is a Sensu Check that uses the
Kubernetes Event API to identify events that should generate corresponding
Sensu events.

This check should be thought of as a meta-check. The check itself, unless it
encounters issues (e.g. trouble authenticating with Kubernetes for API access),
will always return an OK status (exit code 0). However, for each matching event
type it does find, it will create separate events using the agent API.

Given the above, when a matching event occurs, the check will need to be able
to connect to the agent API on http://127.0.0.1:3031/events.

Usage examples

Sensu Kubernetes events check

Usage:
  sensu-kubernetes-events [flags]
  sensu-kubernetes-events [command]

Available Commands:
  help        Help about any command
  version     Print the version number of this plugin

Flags:
  -a, --agent-api-url string     The URL for the Agent API used to send events (default "http://127.0.0.1:3031/events")
  -t, --event-type string        Query for fieldSelector type (supports = and !=) (default "!=Normal")
  -e, --external                 Connect to cluster externally (using kubeconfig)
  -h, --help                     help for sensu-kubernetes-events
  -c, --kubeconfig string        Path to the kubeconfig file (default $HOME/.kube/config)
  -l, --label-selectors string   Query for labelSelectors (e.g. release=stable,environment=qa)
  -n, --namespace string         Namespace to which to limit this check (defaults to check's namespace, use "all" for all namespaces)
  -k, --object-kind string       Object kind to limit query to (Pod, Cluster, etc.)
  -s, --status-map string        Map Kubernetes event type to Sensu event status (default "{\"normal\": 0, \"warning\": 1, \"default\": 3}")

Use "sensu-kubernetes-events [command] --help" for more information about a command.

Namespaces

By default this check assumes your Sensu namespace matches up with your
Kubernetes namespace and therefore uses that same namespace when querying
the API for events. You can override this with the --namespace flag.
To have one check run for events from all Kubernetes namespaces, you can
specify --namespace all.

API authentication

In order to query the API, the check must authenticate. The normal use case
would be for the check to be running in a container in a Kubernetes pod and
would make use of the rest.InClusterConfig() function to handle API host
discovery and authentication automatically. That is described here.
This is the default behavior.

To use "external" access requires the use of kubeconfig files similar to the
kubectl command. This method is enabled via the --external flag. Additionally,
the --kubeconfig option can be used to point to an alternative kubeconfig file.

Object kind

If an object kind is not specified via the --object-kind argument, events for
all object kinds (cluster, pod, etc.) will be returned.

Event types

The expected use case for this check is to find anomalous events in your
Kubernetes environment(s). For that reason, the default event type is
!=Normal.

Label selectors

Label selectors can be used to limit the scope of the Kubernetes events
returned and checked against the requested event type. You can specify multiple
selectors by separating them with commas as the value for the
--label-selectors argument.

Status map

The status map allows you to map the event type (e.g. Normal, Warning) to a
Sensu event check result. It is a simple JSON map represented as a string.
The event types are case-insensitive. The default, below, shows that Normal
maps to OK (0), Warning maps to Warning (1), and Default (anything else) maps to
Unknown (3):

{
  "Normal": 0,
  "Warning": 1,
  "Default": 3
}

Configuration

Asset registration

Sensu Assets are the best way to make use of this plugin. If you're not
using an asset, please consider doing so! If you're using sensuctl 5.13 with
Sensu Backend 5.13 or later, you can use the following command to add the asset:

sensuctl asset add sensu/sensu-kubernetes-events

If you're using an earlier version of sensuctl, you can find the asset on the
Bonsai Asset Index.

Check definition

---
type: CheckConfig
api_version: core/v2
metadata:
  name: sensu-kubernetes-events
  namespace: default
spec:
  command: sensu-kubernetes-events --example example_arg
  subscriptions:
  - system
  runtime_assets:
  - sensu/sensu-kubernetes-events
  stdin: true
  handlers:
  - slack

Notes:

  • The check definition requires stdin be set to true.
  • Any Events created by this check will include the handlers defined for it.

Installation from source

The preferred way of installing and deploying this plugin is to use it as an
Asset. If you would like to compile and install the plugin from source or
contribute to it, download the latest version or create an executable binary
from this source.

From the local path of the sensu-kubernetes-events repository:

go build

Additional notes

Contributing

For more information about contributing to this plugin, see Contributing.

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