Now in GA, High scale mode in Container Insights allows customers to collect 10X the volume of logs from their AKS clusters - making it easier to observe your largest workloads
Container Insights is Azure Monitor’s solution for collecting logs from your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters. As the adoption of AKS continues to grow, we are seeing an increasing number of customers with log scaling needs that hit the limits of log collection in Container Insights.
Last August, we announced the public preview of High Scale mode in Container Insights to help customers achieve a higher log collection throughput from their AKS clusters.
Today, we are happy to announce the General Availability of High Scale mode. High scale mode is ideal for customers approaching or above 10,000 logs/sec from a single node.
When High Scale mode is enabled, Container Insights does multiple configuration changes leading to a higher overall throughput. These include using a more powerful agent setup, using a different data pipeline, allocating more memory for the agent, and more. All these changes are made in the background by the service and do not require input or configuration from customers. High Scale mode impacts only the data collection layer (with a new DCR) – the rest of the experience remains the same. Data flows to our existing tables, your queries and alerts work as before too.
High Scale mode is available to all customers. Today, High scale is turned off by default. In the future, we plan to enable High Scale mode by default for all customers to reduce the chances of log loss when workloads scale.
To get started with High Scale mode, please see our documentation at https://aka.ms/cihsmode
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