Setup "Stackdriver Kubernetes Monitoring" for AWS

Question

Google Cloud Platform announced "Stackdriver Kubernetes Monitoring" at Kubecon 2018. It looks awesome.

I am an AWS user running a few Kubernetes clusters and immediately had envy, until I saw that it also supported AWS and "on prem".

Stackdriver Kubernetes Engine Monitoring

This is where I am getting a bit lost.

1. I cannot find any documentation for helping me deploy the agents onto my Kubernetes clusters. The closest example I could find was here: Manual installation of Stackdriver support, but the agents are polling for "internal" GCP metadata services.

   E0512 05:14:12 7f47b6ff5700 environment.cc:100 Exception: Host not found (authoritative): 'http://metadata.google.internal./computeMetadata/v1/instance/attributes/cluster-name'
   

2. I'm not sure the Stackdriver dashboard has "Stackdriver Kubernetes Monitoring" turned on. I don't seem to have the same interface as the demo on YouTube here

I'm not sure if this is something which will get turned on when I configure the agents correctly, or something I'm missing.

I think I might be missing some "getting started" documentation which takes me through the setup.

Answer 1

You can use a Stackdriver partner service, Blue Medora BindPlane, to monitor AWS Kubernetes or almost anything else in AWS for that matter or on-premise. Here's an article from Google Docs about the partnership: About Blue Medora; you can signup for BindPlane through the Google Cloud Platform Marketplace.

It looks like BindPlane is handling deprecated Stackdriver monitoring agents. Google Cloud: Transition guide for deprecated third-party integrations