What logs and metrics are most useful for Calico?

Monitoring Calico involves analyzing specific logs and metrics to ensure the effectiveness of network policies, performance, and security within Kubernetes clusters. Key logs include the Calico Node logs, Felix logs, Kubelet logs, and the Calico CNI plugin logs, while essential metrics encompass network throughput, error rates, and policy enforcement statistics.
Calico, Kubernetes, Network Policies, Logs, Metrics, Monitoring, Felix, CNI Plugin, Network Throughput
<?php // Example of fetching Calico metrics using cURL $url = "http://"; $ch = curl_init($url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); $response = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); // Decode the JSON response $metrics = json_decode($response, true); // Print some useful metrics echo "Network Throughput: " . $metrics['network']['throughput'] . "<br>"; echo "Error Rate: " . $metrics['network']['error_rate'] . "<br>"; echo "Policies Enforced: " . $metrics['policies']['enforced_count'] . "<br>"; ?>

Calico Kubernetes Network Policies Logs Metrics Monitoring Felix CNI Plugin Network Throughput