Enable New UI and Kubernetes Alerting

Enable new UI and Kubernetes Alerting.

To experience the following features you require to configure the account-level properties (k8s.alerting.support.enabled and sim.cluster.container.metrics.v2.enabled) in Controller and the properties in Cluster Agent configuration file (enableAdditionalMetrics: true and enableV2Metrics: true). To enable these properties, contact Customer Support.
Note: Transitioning to this solution improves data granularity and provides richer insights into your environment. However, this transition discontinues historical data collection for a specific subset of entities. You will not be able to retrieve historical data prior to the date of transition. Plan your data retention and audit requirements accordingly.

  • Kubernetes Alerting.

  • enhanced UI, such as hierarchical visualization of some entities and their dashboards with health status of those entities.

  • more metrics. For the list of metrics, see Kubernetes Metrics.

Points to Consider

Before you enable the UI and Kubernetes Alerting Features, ensure you consider the following:

  • You are using Controller version >= 26.1.2

  • You are using Cluster Agent version >= 26.3

  • Some of the old metrics will not be displayed. Only the metrics included at Kubernetes Metrics Available for Enhanced UI and Alerting will be available.

    You cannot retrieve historical data prior to the migration. Plan your data retention and audit requirements accordingly.

  • After you enable the features, Cluster Agent requires to re-register the containers. Even when the application continues to get monitored, the links to correlation of the application to node might not get displayed. To restore the correlation, see Application to Node Correlation for Kubernetes Entities.