Toggling Metrics and Events – DataSet Customer Portal

Metrics and Events

By default, the agent gathers Kubernetes cluster and container metrics as well as Kubernetes events.

To change this, you can simply modify the environment aware variables toggle these items in a ConfigMap. See the section "Modify ConfigMap" to see step by step instructions.

Turning off Cluster Metrics

SCALYR_K8S_EVENTS_DISABLE: "true"

Turning off Container Metric

SCALYR_REPORT_CONTAINER_METRICS: "false"
SCALYR_REPORT_K8S_METRICS : "false"
Turning off Events

SCALYR_K8S_EVENTS_DISABLE: "true"

Other Environment Aware Variables

Full List

Modify ConfigMap

View ConfigMap

kubectl get configmap scalyr-config -n scalyr -o yaml

Export to file

kubectl get configmap scalyr-config -n scalyr -o yaml > /tmp/scalyr-agent-2-configmap.yaml

or

Download a fresh ConfgMap

cd /tmp; curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/scalyr/scalyr-agent-2/release/k8s/scalyr-agent-2-configmap.yaml

Edit

sudo vim /tmp/scalyr-agent-2-configmap.yaml

Save

kubectl create configmap scalyr-config --from-file=/tmp/scalyr-agent-2-configmap.yaml -n scalyr -o yaml --dry-run=client | kubectl apply -f -

Redeploy agent

kubectl delete -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/scalyr/scalyr-agent-2/release/k8s/no-kustomize/scalyr-agent-2.yaml

kubectl create -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/scalyr/scalyr-agent-2/release/k8s/no-kustomize/scalyr-agent-2.yaml

Metrics and Events

Turning off Events

Other Environment Aware Variables

Modify ConfigMap

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