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Chapter 5. Configuring secrets for Alertmanager
The OpenShift Dedicated monitoring stack includes Alertmanager, which routes alerts from Prometheus to endpoint receivers. If you need to authenticate with a receiver so that Alertmanager can send alerts to it, you can configure Alertmanager to use a secret that contains authentication credentials for the receiver.
For example, you can configure Alertmanager to use a secret to authenticate with an endpoint receiver that requires a certificate issued by a private Certificate Authority (CA). You can also configure Alertmanager to use a secret to authenticate with a receiver that requires a password file for Basic HTTP authentication. In either case, authentication details are contained in the Secret
object rather than in the ConfigMap
object.
5.1. Adding a secret to the Alertmanager configuration
You can add secrets to the Alertmanager configuration for user-defined projects by editing the user-workload-monitoring-config
config map in the openshift-user-workload-monitoring
project.
After you add a secret to the config map, the secret is mounted as a volume at /etc/alertmanager/secrets/<secret_name>
within the alertmanager
container for the Alertmanager pods.
Prerequisites
-
You have access to the cluster as a user with the
dedicated-admin
role. -
The
user-workload-monitoring-config
ConfigMap
object exists. This object is created by default when the cluster is created. -
You have created the secret to be configured in Alertmanager in the
openshift-user-workload-monitoring
project. -
You have installed the OpenShift CLI (
oc
).
Procedure
Edit the
ConfigMap
object.Edit the
user-workload-monitoring-config
config map in theopenshift-user-workload-monitoring
project:$ oc -n openshift-user-workload-monitoring edit configmap user-workload-monitoring-config
Add a
secrets:
section underdata/config.yaml/alertmanager/secrets
with the following configuration:apiVersion: v1 kind: ConfigMap metadata: name: user-workload-monitoring-config namespace: openshift-user-workload-monitoring data: config.yaml: | alertmanager: secrets: 1 - <secret_name_1> 2 - <secret_name_2>
- 1
- This section contains the secrets to be mounted into Alertmanager. The secrets must be located within the same namespace as the Alertmanager object.
- 2
- The name of the
Secret
object that contains authentication credentials for the receiver. If you add multiple secrets, place each one on a new line.
The following sample config map settings configure Alertmanager to use two
Secret
objects namedtest-secret
andtest-secret-api-token
:apiVersion: v1 kind: ConfigMap metadata: name: user-workload-monitoring-config namespace: openshift-user-workload-monitoring data: config.yaml: | alertmanager: enabled: true secrets: - test-secret - test-api-receiver-token
- Save the file to apply the changes. The new configuration is applied automatically.
5.2. Attaching additional labels to your time series and alerts
You can attach custom labels to all time series and alerts leaving Prometheus by using the external labels feature of Prometheus.
Prerequisites
-
You have access to the cluster as a user with the
dedicated-admin
role. -
The
user-workload-monitoring-config
ConfigMap
object exists. This object is created by default when the cluster is created. -
You have installed the OpenShift CLI (
oc
).
Procedure
Edit the
ConfigMap
object:Edit the
user-workload-monitoring-config
ConfigMap
object in theopenshift-user-workload-monitoring
project:$ oc -n openshift-user-workload-monitoring edit configmap user-workload-monitoring-config
Define a map of labels you want to add for every metric under
data/config.yaml
:apiVersion: v1 kind: ConfigMap metadata: name: user-workload-monitoring-config namespace: openshift-user-workload-monitoring data: config.yaml: | prometheus: externalLabels: <key>: <value> 1
- 1
- Substitute
<key>: <value>
with a map of key-value pairs where<key>
is a unique name for the new label and<value>
is its value.
Warning-
Do not use
prometheus
orprometheus_replica
as key names, because they are reserved and will be overwritten. -
Do not use
cluster
ormanaged_cluster
as key names. Using them can cause issues where you are unable to see data in the developer dashboards.
NoteIn the
openshift-user-workload-monitoring
project, Prometheus handles metrics and Thanos Ruler handles alerting and recording rules. SettingexternalLabels
forprometheus
in theuser-workload-monitoring-config
ConfigMap
object will only configure external labels for metrics and not for any rules.For example, to add metadata about the region and environment to all time series and alerts related to user-defined projects, use the following example:
apiVersion: v1 kind: ConfigMap metadata: name: user-workload-monitoring-config namespace: openshift-user-workload-monitoring data: config.yaml: | prometheus: externalLabels: region: eu environment: prod
- Save the file to apply the changes. The pods affected by the new configuration are automatically redeployed.