Today at Ignite, we are thrilled to announce the General Availability of Kubernetes Metadata and Logs Filtering in Azure Monitor – Container Insights! This enhancement brings additional Kubernetes metadata to the ContainerLogsV2 schema, including PodLabels, PodAnnotations, PodUid, Image, ImageID, ImageRepo, and ImageTag. Moreover, the new Logs Filtering feature allows for precise filtering of both workload and system pods/containers. These advancements not only provide users with richer context and enhanced visibility into their workloads but are crucial for customer troubleshooting as they provide deeper insights into the Kubernetes environment.
Key Features
- Enhanced ContainerLogV2 schema with Kubernetes Metadata Fields: Detailed metadata fields enhance log analysis. These include “podLabels,” “podAnnotations,” “podUid,” “image,” “imageID,” “imageRepo,” and “imageTag.”
- Customized Include List Configuration: Users can tailor metadata fields via ConfigMap. All fields are collected by default.
- Enhanced ContainerLogV2 schema with Log Level: Assess application health with color-coded severity levels (e.g., CRITICAL, ERROR, WARNING). Helps incident response and proactive monitoring.
- Annotation Based Log Filtering for workloads: Efficient log filtering through podAnnotations. Focus on relevant information, optimizing costs and resource usage.
- ConfigMap Based Log Filtering for platform logs (System Kubernetes Namespaces): Enables ability to configure log collection of specific pods within the system namespaces through ConfigMap.
- Grafana Dashboard for Visualization: Leverage the power of Grafana Dashboard to visualize log levels, log volume, rate, records, and more. Empowers in-depth analysis and real-time monitoring.
To learn more and enable this new feature, please visit our Kubernetes Metadata and Logs Filtering Documentation.
If you have any questions or feedback on Kubernetes Logs Metadata and Filtering, please reach out to ibraraslam@microsoft.com or fill out this survey!
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