Over the past decade, there has been a significant evolution in how companies design and deploy applications due to advancements like cloud computing, Kubernetes, CI/CD, DevOps, and GitOps. The rapid pace of technological change makes it challenging for organizations to stay abreast of these innovations.
A significant number of organizations recognize that the lack of in-house expertise and manpower poses a major challenge when adopting Kubernetes. While successfully transitioning to cloud-native solutions can lead to considerable advantages, the importance of having skilled human resources is frequently underestimated. This highlights the need for businesses to invest in training and developing their teams to fully harness the potential of these technologies.
In practice, platform teams are responsible for setting up environments that enable application developers to deploy their work using Kubernetes. A deficiency in skills among these teams can result in breaches of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and financial repercussions, as companies might need to offer service credits or refunds if the expected performance levels aren't achieved. While automation plays a role in mitigating issues, it is equally crucial to know where to identify problems and understand how to resolve them when they occur.
Accelerate Kubernetes troubleshooting by up to 10x
Advisor is a robust Kubernetes troubleshooting tool integrated within IBM Cloud Monitoring that significantly accelerates the resolution process by up to ten times. It offers a prioritized list of issues along with relevant data, enabling you to quickly pinpoint and address critical problems.
Curated problem prioritization gives attention faster - allowing you to identify what’s on fire or what should need to be addressed soon.
When tackling Kubernetes challenges such as CrashLoopBackoff, understanding the last state of a container, its events, and log details is crucial. Advisor streamlines this by consolidating all necessary information into one platform, eliminating the need for toggling between logs, dashboards, and command-line tools like kubectl.
With an intuitive, actionable interface, Advisor presents all essential information in a single location, featuring a curated set of actionable steps to resolve Kubernetes issues efficiently, without the hassle of searching through external resources.
Identify and understand why a pod is in CrashLoopBackOff in 15 seconds
“When we get an alert for a problem in our Kubernetes environment, troubleshooting can involve multiple tools and teams which increases our MTTR. Having this information at our fingertips in the Kubernetes Troubleshooting Advisor will help us understand and resolve these problems more quickly.” An IBM Cloud Monitoring customer.
As soon as the agent is installed, Advisor will automatically identify problems by looking through thousands of different data points with zero configuration required.
Richest data for troubleshooting every type of problem
Advisor is designed to handle various troubleshooting scenarios. You can explore your infrastructure organized by clusters, applications, workloads, and pods, offering an extensive overview down to detailed network, file, and process metrics from syscalls within any pod. Contextual insights include alert incidents, container logs, Kubernetes events, object descriptions (e.g., kubectl describe pod), and kube-state-metrics.
Advisor empowers developers and team members who typically don't have access to kubectl by providing them with the necessary insights for troubleshooting without needing special permissions, simplifying collaboration with security teams.
Zero app instrumentation golden signals, network, file, and process telemetry
For platform teams, Advisor assists in optimizing cluster sizing. It ensures adequate capacity for new workloads while preventing resource wastage from overuse, effectively conserving both resources and costs.
Quickly monitor cluster capacity health, and identify resource status of workloads
Advisor is available at no additional cost to all customers. We're always eager to hear how our products are supporting your operational excellence. Feel free to reach out to your IBM Cloud Monitoring contact with feedback or for assistance in enhancing your troubleshooting capabilities!
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