Huawei Cloud ASM Tracing TO TrueWatch¶

Output tracing data from Huawei Cloud ASM to TrueWatch for viewing and analysis.

Configuration¶

Preparation¶

To use ASM, you need to purchase a CCE cluster and deploy the datakit daemonset.

Creation of ASM¶

Service Mesh => Purchase Mesh => Basic Edition

Grid name, select istio version, choose cluster version and istio control node, submit directly.

After about 1~3 minutes, the installation completed page looks like this:

After installation, create the bookinfo application.

Before installation, we need to prepare a load balancer, which I have already done. Select it, choose external port as 80, select image repository address as docker.io/istio, then install.

Check the created gateway and services.

Access http://124.70.68.49/productpage to check if the service is normal.

Sending Trace Data to TrueWatch¶

Enable OpenTelemetry Collector¶

Refer to the OpenTelemetry collector connection documentation

Add to ConfigMap

opentelemetry.conf: |
      [[inputs.opentelemetry]]
          [inputs.opentelemetry.http]
            enable = true
            http_status_ok = 200
            trace_api = "/otel/v1/trace"
            metric_api = "/otel/v1/metric"
          [inputs.opentelemetry.grpc]
            trace_enable = true
            metric_enable = true
            addr = "0.0.0.0:4317"

Mount opentelemetry.conf

- mountPath: /usr/local/datakit/conf.d/opentelemetry/opentelemetry.conf
    name: datakit-conf
    subPath: opentelemetry.conf

Redeploy datakit

kubectl apply -f datakit.yaml

After deployment, check in monitor whether opentelemetry has been enabled.

# kubectl exec -it -n datakit pods/datakit-lfb95 datakit monitor

Modify asm Output Address¶

For easy testing, first modify the sampling rate of ASM.

# kubectl edit -n istio-system cm istio-1-15-5-r4
...
sampling: 100   # Change this parameter from 1 to 100
...

Modify asm output to TrueWatch

# kubectl edit -n monitoring cm otel-collector-conf
...
exporters:
      apm:
        address: "100.125.0.78:8923"
        project_id: f5f4c067d68b4b3aad86e173b18367bf
        cluster_id: 5f642ce9-4aca-11ee-9dbd-0255ac10024d
      otlp:   # Add otlp output
        endpoint: "http://datakit-service.datakit:4317"
        tls:
          insecure: true
        compression: none # Do not enable gzip
...
traces/apm:
          receivers: [ zipkin ]
          processors: [ memory_limiter, batch ]
          exporters: [ otlp ]   # Change exporter to otlp

After configuration modification, access the address http://124.70.68.49/productpage several times, then check the traces in TrueWatch workspace.

Click on a trace to view detailed information.

Sending Metrics Data to TrueWatch¶

Metric Collection Configuration¶

Enable Prometheus Exportter data collection in DataKit. Refer to Prometheus Exportter, ConfigMap as follows:

    prom.conf: |
      [[inputs.prom]]
        urls = ["http://istiod.istio-system:15014/metrics"] ## istiod address
        uds_path = ""
        ignore_req_err = false
        source = "prom"
        measurement_prefix = ""
        measurement_name = "istio_prom"

Mount configuration file

        - mountPath: /usr/local/datakit/conf.d/prom/prom.conf
          name: datakit-conf
          subPath: prom.conf

Redeploy DataKit

Kubectl apply -f datakit.yml