Monitor migrated workloads

You can view logs and metrics from your migrated workloads in the Google Cloud console. You can also view logs from the command line with kubectl.

You can execute bash commands on the container with your migrated workload. For more, see the Troubleshooting topic.

View metrics on the GKE console

The GKE console and Cloud Monitoring provide a suite of tools to monitor your containers. To get started:

  1. Open GKE Workloads
  2. Click the name of the workload you would like to monitor.

From here, you can see details about this workload, including aggregate graphs of performance across all Pods.

View logs in Cloud Logging

Once you enable monitoring, you can view workload logs in the Cloud Monitoring user interface.

You can use Cloud Logging to view logs for the following aspects of your migration:

  • Logs written to stdout by processes launched by init.
  • The content of var/log/syslog.
  • Optionally, application logs written to the file system.

You can view system logs that are in Cloud Logging from the Google Cloud console. To do so:

  1. Open GKE Workloads.
  2. Find your workload and click its Name. The Deployment Details page appears.
  3. Find the row labeled Logs and click Container logs.

This loads Cloud Logging, showing logs for this workload only.

Container logs in Cloud Logging

View logs in kubectl

You can use kubectl to retrieve logs from a running container. You can also monitor the progress of export from short-term to long-term storage.

To view the logs for a pod:

  1. Find the name of your pod from the output of kubectl get pods. In the example below, the pod's name is suitecrm-app-0.

    kubectl get pods
NAME                       READY     STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
csi-disk-controller-0   3/3       Running   4          4d
csi-disk-node-5t922     3/3       Running   3          4d
csi-disk-node-5tdcp     3/3       Running   3          4d
csi-disk-node-86c2t     3/3       Running   3          4d
csi-disk-node-8785n     3/3       Running   3          4d
suitecrm-app-0       1/1       Running   0          17h

  2. View the logs from your pod with kubectl logs.

    kubectl logs [POD_NAME]
I0529 07:01:26.000000    12 hclog.py:48] [suitecrm-app-0] - Auto-detected template: centos
D0529 07:01:26.000000    12 hclog.py:42] [util] - SHELL OUTPUT: UNIT FILE                                     STATE
D0529 07:01:26.000000    12 hclog.py:42] [util] - SHELL OUTPUT: adservice.service                             enabled

The pod's recent logs are displayed.

For more information on logging and Kubernetes, see the Kubernetes Logging documentation.

What's next