Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

Enabling user workload monitoring

To collect metrics from your specific applications, enable monitoring for user-defined projects. You can enable monitoring for user-defined projects by configuring user workload monitoring in the cluster. For more information, see "Setting up metrics collection for user-defined projects".

Prerequisites

You have access to the cluster as a user with the cluster-admin role.

Procedure

Create the cluster-monitoring-config.yaml YAML file:

apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  name: cluster-monitoring-config
  namespace: openshift-monitoring
data:
  config.yaml: |
    enableUserWorkload: true

Apply the ConfigMap by running the following command:
```
$ oc apply -f cluster-monitoring-config.yaml
```

Verification

Verify that the monitoring components for user workloads are running in the openshift-user-workload-monitoring namespace by running the following command:

$ oc -n openshift-user-workload-monitoring get pod

Example output

NAME                                   READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
prometheus-operator-6cb6bd9588-dtzxq   2/2     Running   0          50s
prometheus-user-workload-0             6/6     Running   0          48s
prometheus-user-workload-1             6/6     Running   0          48s
thanos-ruler-user-workload-0           4/4     Running   0          42s
thanos-ruler-user-workload-1           4/4     Running   0          42s

The status of the pods such as prometheus-operator, prometheus-user-workload, and thanos-ruler-user-workload must be Running.