Insight AKS Cluster

Question

Hello good

I would appreciate it, please, if you help me to eliminate a doubt.

The least expensive way to activate the monitoring of an AKS cluster with Insight in the same azure is to activate it with the mode:

Cost presets (preview) : Cost-optimized

Correct?

It is to be able to activate it and in the cheapest way

Answer 1

@Fernando Martin Gutierrez ,

That's correct ! That is the easiest way with an interval of 5 minutes frequency and which by default eliminates/excludes kube-system, gatekeeper-system, azure-arc

But you might also want to explore couple of more options mentioned below:-

For example you have the flexibility of setting the frequency interval between [1min to 30 mins] depending upon how much logging you need !

You can configure the datacollectionsetting.json with your custom frequency and update it accordingly , play around with them. You can also exclude couple of other namespaces if you customize using datacollectionrulesettings !

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-US/azure/azure-monitor/containers/container-insights-cost-config?tabs=create-CLI#configuring-aks-data-collection-settings-using-azure-cli

Also take a look at the custom configMaps

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/containers/container-insights-agent-config#data-collection-settings

Regards,

Shiva.