Network firewall requirements for monitoring Kubernetes cluster

The following table lists the proxy and firewall configuration information required for the containerized agent to communicate with Managed Prometheus and Container insights. All network traffic from the agent is outbound to Azure Monitor.

Azure public cloud

Endpoint Purpose Port
*.ods.opinsights.azure.com 443
*.oms.opinsights.azure.com 443
dc.services.visualstudio.com 443
*.monitoring.azure.com 443
login.microsoftonline.com 443
global.handler.control.monitor.azure.com Access control service 443
<cluster-region-name>.ingest.monitor.azure.com Azure monitor managed service for Prometheus - metrics ingestion endpoint (DCE) 443
<cluster-region-name>.handler.control.monitor.azure.com Fetch data collection rules for specific cluster 443

Microsoft Azure operated by 21Vianet cloud

Endpoint Purpose Port
*.ods.opinsights.azure.cn Data ingestion 443
*.oms.opinsights.azure.cn Azure Monitor agent (AMA) onboarding 443
dc.services.visualstudio.com For agent telemetry that uses Azure Public Cloud Application Insights 443
global.handler.control.monitor.azure.cn Access control service 443
<cluster-region-name>.handler.control.monitor.azure.cn Fetch data collection rules for specific cluster 443

Azure Government cloud

Endpoint Purpose Port
*.ods.opinsights.azure.us Data ingestion 443
*.oms.opinsights.azure.us Azure Monitor agent (AMA) onboarding 443
dc.services.visualstudio.com For agent telemetry that uses Azure Public Cloud Application Insights 443
global.handler.control.monitor.azure.us Access control service 443
<cluster-region-name>.handler.control.monitor.azure.us Fetch data collection rules for specific cluster 443

Next steps

  • If you experience issues while you attempt to onboard the solution, review the Troubleshooting guide.
  • With monitoring enabled to collect health and resource utilization of your AKS cluster and workloads running on them, learn how to use Container insights.