Commit 88870c87 authored by Marcia Ramos's avatar Marcia Ramos

Merge branch 'minor-improvement-to-k8s-monitoring-docs' into 'master'

Improve link for CI environment variable, wording.

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!17252
parents ef91fadb 5aa30898
...@@ -28,6 +28,6 @@ Prometheus server up and running. You have two options here: ...@@ -28,6 +28,6 @@ Prometheus server up and running. You have two options here:
In order to isolate and only display relevant CPU and Memory metrics for a given environment, GitLab needs a method to detect which containers it is running. Because these metrics are tracked at the container level, traditional Kubernetes labels are not available. In order to isolate and only display relevant CPU and Memory metrics for a given environment, GitLab needs a method to detect which containers it is running. Because these metrics are tracked at the container level, traditional Kubernetes labels are not available.
Instead, the [Deployment](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/deployment/) or [DaemonSet](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/daemonset/) name should begin with the name of the [environment](../../../../ci/environments.md). It can be followed by a `-` and additional content if desired. For example, a deployment name of `review-homepage-5620p5` would match the `review/homepage` environment. Instead, the [Deployment](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/deployment/) or [DaemonSet](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/daemonset/) name should begin with [CI_ENVIRONMENT_SLUG](../../../../ci/variables/README.md#predefined-variables-environment-variables). It can be followed by a `-` and additional content if desired. For example, a deployment name of `review-homepage-5620p5` would match the `review/homepage` environment.
If you are using [GitLab Auto-Deploy](../../../../ci/autodeploy/index.md) and one of the two [provided Kubernetes monitoring solutions](../prometheus.md#getting-started-with-prometheus-monitoring), the naming will be correctly set automatically. If you are using [GitLab Auto-Deploy](../../../../ci/autodeploy/index.md) and one of the two [provided Kubernetes monitoring solutions](../prometheus.md#getting-started-with-prometheus-monitoring), the `environment` label will be automatically added.
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