If you have not yet installed the logging and monitoring components, go through the installation instructions to set up the necessary components first.
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To open the Kibana UI (the visualization tool for Elasticsearch), start a local proxy with the following command:
kubectl proxy
This command starts a local proxy of Kibana on port 8001. For security reasons, the Kibana UI is exposed only within the cluster.
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Navigate to the Kibana UI. It might take a couple of minutes for the proxy to work.
The Discover tab of the Kibana UI looks like this:
You can change the time frame of logs Kibana displays in the upper right corner of the screen. The main search bar is across the top of the Discover page.
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As more logs are ingested, new fields will be discovered. To have them indexed, go to "Management" > "Index Patterns" > Refresh button (on top right) > "Refresh fields".
To access the logs for a configuration:
- Find the configuration's name with the following command:
kubectl get configurations
- Replace
<CONFIGURATION_NAME>
and enter the following search query in Kibana:
kubernetes.labels.serving_knative_dev\/configuration: <CONFIGURATION_NAME>
To access logs for a revision:
- Find the revision's name with the following command:
kubectl get revisions
- Replace
<REVISION_NAME>
and enter the following search query in Kibana:
kubernetes.labels.serving_knative_dev\/revision: <REVISION_NAME>
To access logs for a Knative Build:
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Find the build's name in the specified in the
.yaml
file:apiVersion: build.knative.dev/v1alpha1 kind: Build metadata: name: <BUILD_NAME>
Or find build names with the following command:
kubectl get builds
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Replace
<BUILD_NAME>
and enter the following search query in Kibana:
kubernetes.labels.build\-name: <BUILD_NAME>
To access the request logs, enter the following search in Kibana:
tag: "requestlog.logentry.istio-system"
Request logs contain details about requests served by the revision. Below is a sample request log:
@timestamp July 10th 2018, 10:09:28.000
destinationConfiguration configuration-example
destinationNamespace default
destinationRevision configuration-example-00001
destinationService configuration-example-00001-service.default.svc.cluster.local
latency 1.232902ms
method GET
protocol http
referer unknown
requestHost route-example.default.example.com
requestSize 0
responseCode 200
responseSize 36
severity Info
sourceNamespace istio-system
sourceService unknown
tag requestlog.logentry.istio-system
traceId 986d6faa02d49533
url /
userAgent curl/7.60.0
See Accessing Traces page for details.
Go to the GCP Console logging page for your GCP project, which stores your logs via Stackdriver.
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