Wavefront is a high-performance streaming analytics platform for monitoring and optimizing your environment and applications.

The Wavefront Collector for Kubernetes is an agent that runs as a DaemonSet on each node within a Kubernetes cluster. It collects metrics and events about the cluster and sends them to the Wavefront SaaS service.

• Collects real-time data from all layers of a Kubernetes environment
• Multiple sources of metrics providing comprehensive insight:
  • Kubernetes (kubelet) source: For core kubernetes metrics
  • Prometheus source: For scraping prometheus metric endpoints (API server, etcd, NGINX etc)
  • Kubernetes state source: For resource state metrics
  • Telegraf source: For host and application level metrics
  • Systemd source: For host level systemd metrics
• Auto discovery of pods and services based on annotation and configuration
• Daemonset mode for high scalability with leader election for monitoring cluster level resources
• Rich filtering support
• Auto reload of configuration changes
• Internal metrics for tracking the collector health and configuration

Refer to the installation instructions.

The installation instructions use a default configuration suitable for most use cases. Refer to the documentation for details on all the configuration options.

Build using make and the provided Makefile.

Commonly used make options include:

• fmt to go fmt all your code
• tests to run all the unit tests
• build that creates a local executable
• container that uses a docker container to build for consistency and reproducability

Public contributions are always welcome. Please feel free to report issues or submit pull requests.