Envoy Alerts
EnvoyClusterDown
This is the most critical alert and indicates that an Envoy cluster is not able to process requests. This alert should be handled with the highest priority.
Example Alert
Firing
[FIRING:1] EnvoyClusterDown - critical
Alert: Envoy cluster is down - critical
Description: Envoy cluster is down, no resquest can be process
Details:
• alertname: EnvoyClusterDown
• deployment: prod-scalardl-envoy
Resolved
[RESOLVED] EnvoyClusterDown - critical
Alert: Envoy cluster is down - critical
Description: Envoy cluster is down, no resquest can be process
Details:
• alertname: EnvoyClusterDown
• deployment: prod-scalardl-envoy
Action Needed
- Check the number of replicas set
kubectl get deployments. prod-scalardl-envoy
- Check the number of replicas set
kubectl describe deployments. prod-scalardl-envoy
- Check nodes statuses with
kubectl get node -o wide
- Check the log server to pinpoint the root cause of a failure with kubernetes logs on the monitor server
/log/kubernetes/<year>/<month>-<day>/kube.log
- Check a cloud provider to see if there is any known issue. For example, you can check statues here in Azure.
EnvoyClusterDegraded
This alert lets you know if a kubernetes cluster cannot start envoy pods, which means that the cluster does not have enough resource or lost of one or many kubernetes nodes to run the deployment.
Example Alert
Firing
[FIRING:1] EnvoyClusterDegraded - warning
Alert: Envoy cluster is running in a degraded mode - warning
Description: Envoy cluster is running in a degraded mode, some of the Envoy pods are not healthy
Details:
• alertname: EnvoyClusterDegraded
• deployment: prod-scalardl-envoy
Resolved
[RESOLVED] EnvoyClusterDegraded - warning
Alert: Envoy cluster is running in a degraded mode - warning
Description: Envoy cluster is running in a degraded mode, some of the Envoy pods are not healthy
Details:
• alertname: EnvoyClusterDegraded
• deployment: prod-scalardl-envoy
Action Needed
- Check the log server to pinpoint the root cause of a failure with kubernetes logs on the monitor server
/log/kubernetes/<year>/<month>-<day>/kube.log
orkubectl logs prod-scalardl-envoy-xxxx-yyyy
- Check kubernetes deployment with
kubectl describe deployments prod-scalardl-envoy
- Check replica set with
kubectl get replicasets.apps
- Check nodes statuses with
kubectl get node -o wide
- Check a cloud provider to see if there is any known issue. For example, you can check statues here in Azure.
EnvoyPodsPending
This alert lets you know if a kubernetes cluster cannot start envoy pods, which means that the cluster does not have the enough resource.
Example Alert
Firing
[FIRING:1] EnvoyPodsPending - warning
Alert: Pod prod-scalardl-envoy-xxxx-yyyy in namespace default in pending status - warning
Description: Pod prod-scalardl-envoy-xxxx-yyyy in namespace default has been in pending status for more than 1 minute.
Details:
• alertname: EnvoyPodsPending
• deployment: prod-scalardl-envoy