Inital Monitoring Lab

content/en/docs/monitoring/_index.md

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+---
+title: "Monitoring"
+weight: 8
+labfoldernumber: "08"
+sectionnumber: 8
+description: >
+  Monitoring KubeVirt Components and virtual machines.
+---
+
+In this section we will learn how to monitor the KubeVirt components and virtual machines.
+
+
+## Lab Goals
+
+* Learn the different aspects of monitoring the KubeVirt components.
+* Understand and explore the existing prometheus metrics.
+* Integrate the metrics of a virtual machine into a prometheus stack.

content/en/docs/monitoring/guest-agent.md

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+---
+title: "Guest Agent"
+weight: 81
+labfoldernumber: "08"
+description: >
+  Guest Agent is an optional component that can run inside of Virtual Machines to provide plenty of additional runtime information.
+---
+
+In many of the available cloud images the `qemu-guest-agent` package is already installed. In case, it's not preinstalled you can use one of the previously learned concept to install the package.
+
+
+## {{% task %}} Start a virtual machine and explore Guest Agent information
+
+In this lab we're going to reuse the virtual machine, we created in the {{<link "cloud-init">}}.
+
+Start the `cloud-init` virtual machine using the following command:
+
+```bash
+virtctl start {{% param "labsubfolderprefix" %}}04-cloudinit --namespace=$USER
+```
+
+The presence of the Guest Agent in the virtual machine is indicated by a condition in the `VirtualMachineInstance` status. This condition shows that the Guest Agent is connected and ready for use.
+
+As soon as the virtual machine has started successfully (`kubectl get vm {{% param "labsubfolderprefix" %}}04-cloudinit --namespace=$USER` STATUS `Running`) we can use the following command to display the `VirtualMachineInstance` object.
+
+```bash
+kubectl get vmi {{% param "labsubfolderprefix" %}}04-cloudinit -o yaml --namespace=$USER
+```
+
+or
+
+```bash
+kubectl describe vmi {{% param "labsubfolderprefix" %}}04-cloudinit --namespace=$USER
+```
+
+Check the `status.conditions` and verify whether the `AgentConnected` condition is `True`
+
+```yaml
+apiVersion: kubevirt.io/v1
+kind: VirtualMachineInstance
+[...]
+spec:
+[...]
+status:
+  conditions:
+  - lastProbeTime: null
+    lastTransitionTime: "2024-10-05T12:02:40Z"
+    status: "True"
+    type: Ready
+  - lastProbeTime: null
+    lastTransitionTime: null
+    status: "True"
+    type: LiveMigratable
+  - lastProbeTime: "2024-10-05T12:02:56Z"
+    lastTransitionTime: null
+    status: "True"
+    type: AgentConnected
+[...]
+```
+
+In case the guest agent has been able to be connected successfully, there will be additional OS information shown in the status of the `VirtualMachineInstance` as for example:
+
+* `status.guestOSInfo:`, which contains OS runtime data
+* `status.interfaces:` info, which shows QEMU interfaces merged with guest agent interfaces info.
+
+Explore the additional information.
+
+
+```yaml
+status:
+  [...]
+  guestOSInfo:
+    id: fedora
+    [...]
+  interfaces:
+    [...]
+```
+
+
+## {{% task %}} Guest Agent information through virtctl
+
+In addition to the `status` section in the `VirtualMachineInstance` it's also possible to get additional information from the Guest Agent via `virtctl` or directly using the kube-api.
+
+
+Use the following commands to get the information using the `virtctl`
+
+```bash
+virtctl guestosinfo {{% param "labsubfolderprefix" %}}04-cloudinit --namespace=$USER
+```
+
+The `guestosinfo` command will return the whole Guest Agent data.
+
+
+If you're only interested in the `userlist` or `filesystemlist` you can execute the following commands:
+
+```bash
+virtctl userlist {{% param "labsubfolderprefix" %}}04-cloudinit --namespace=$USER
+```
+
+```bash
+virtctl fslist {{% param "labsubfolderprefix" %}}04-cloudinit --namespace=$USER
+```
+
+The full `QEMU Guest Agent Protocol Reference` can be found under this link <https://qemu.weilnetz.de/doc/3.1/qemu-ga-ref.html>
+
+
+## End of lab
+
+The Guest Agent information is a neat way to find out more information about your running virtual machines and to monitor your workload.
+
+{{% alert title="Cleanup resources" color="warning" %}}  {{% param "end-of-lab-text" %}}
+
+Stop the `VirtualMachineInstance` again:
+
+```bash
+virtctl stop {{% param "labsubfolderprefix" %}}04-cloudinit --namespace=$USER
+```
+{{% /alert %}}