March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
7h 52m
English
We created the last piece of the chain. Jenkins job will scale nodes of a cluster only if something triggers it. We did that manually by sending POST requests but, as you might have guessed, that is not our ultimate goal. We need to run those builds through alerts based on metrics. Therefore, we'll move back to the beginning of the chain and explore some of the metrics we can use and try to convert them into meaningful alerts.
Let's open Prometheus and try to define an alert worthy of our scaling needs.
open "http://$CLUSTER_DNS/monitor"
Please use admin as both the User Name and the Password if you're asked to authenticate.
We'll start with an expression we already used in the previous chapters.
Please ...