Azure AKS

Metrics

Vmagent is a tiny but mighty agent which helps you collect metrics from various sources and store them in VictoriaMetrics.

Install Integration

Check you have an AKS cluster

This article assumes that you have an existing AKS cluster.

If you need an AKS cluster, see the AKS quickstart using the Azure CLI (opens in a new tab), using Azure PowerShell (opens in a new tab), or using the Azure Portal (opens in a new tab).

Verify your version of Helm

Use the Helm version command to verify your version of Helm

helm version

Add VictoriaMetrics Helm Chart

Run the following to add the Victoria Metrics Helm chart.

helm repo add vm https://victoriametrics.github.io/helm-charts/

Export Default Configuration YAML

Export the default configuration to a yaml file so that we can make an edit.

helm show values vm/victoria-metrics-agent >> vmagent-kubernetes.yml

Add remoteWriteUrls

Open the exported configuration in a text editor to add in the remoteWriteUrls.

You will need to edit Line 65 of the vmagent-kubernetes.yml

From:

# WARN: need to specify at least one remote write url or one multi tenant url
remoteWriteUrls: []
# remoteWriteUrls:
#   - http://vm-insert:8480/insert/0/prometheus
#   - http://prometheus:8480/insert/0/prometheus

To:

# WARN: need to specify at least one remote write url or one multi tenant url
remoteWriteUrls: ["https://@metricsUsername:@metricsPassword@@metrics_id-vm.logit.io:@vmAgentPort/api/v1/write"]
# remoteWriteUrls:
#   - http://vm-insert:8480/insert/0/prometheus
#   - http://prometheus:8480/insert/0/prometheus

Install Helm Chart

You are now ready to install the helm chart.

helm --namespace=victoriametrics install vmagent vm/victoria-metrics-agent --create-namespace -f vmagent-kubernetes.yml