fix(KubeletTooManyPods): handle inconsistent instance labels (kubernetes-monitoring#1021)

Author: skl

alerts/kubelet.libsonnet

@@ -60,10 +60,16 @@ local utils = import '../lib/utils.libsonnet';
             // Some node has a capacity of 1 like AWS's Fargate and only exists while a pod is running on it.
             // We have to ignore this special node in the KubeletTooManyPods alert.
             expr: |||
-              max by (cluster, node) (
-                label_replace(kubelet_running_pods{%(kubeletSelector)s} > 1, "node", "$1", "instance", "(.*)")
+              (
+                max by (cluster, instance) (
+                  kubelet_running_pods{%(kubeletSelector)s} > 1
+                )
+                * on (cluster, instance) group_left(node)
+                max by (cluster, instance, node) (
+                  kubelet_node_name{%(kubeletSelector)s}
+                )
               )
-              /
+              / on (cluster, node) group_left()
               max by (%(clusterLabel)s, node) (
                 kube_node_status_capacity{%(kubeStateMetricsSelector)s, resource="pods"} != 1
               ) > 0.95

tests.yaml

@@ -403,11 +403,13 @@ tests:
     - eval_time: 61m
       alertname: KubePersistentVolumeInodesFillingUp
 
-- name: KubeletTooManyPods alert (single-node)
+- name: KubeletTooManyPods alert (single-node with instance as IP address)
   interval: 1m
   input_series:
-  - series: 'kubelet_running_pods{cluster="kubernetes", instance="node0", job="kubelet"}'
+  - series: 'kubelet_running_pods{cluster="kubernetes", instance="10.0.0.0", job="kubelet"}'
     values: '3x15'
+  - series: 'kubelet_node_name{cluster="kubernetes", instance="10.0.0.0", node="node0", job="kubelet"}'
+    values: '1x15'
   - series: 'kube_node_status_capacity{cluster="kubernetes", node="node0", job="kube-state-metrics", resource="pods", unit="integer"}'
     values: '3x15'
   alert_rule_test:
@@ -418,22 +420,27 @@ tests:
     exp_alerts:
     - exp_labels:
         cluster: kubernetes
+        instance: 10.0.0.0
         node: node0
         severity: info
       exp_annotations:
         summary: "Kubelet is running at capacity."
         description: "Kubelet 'node0' is running at 100% of its Pod capacity."
         runbook_url: https://github.com/kubernetes-monitoring/kubernetes-mixin/tree/master/runbook.md#alert-name-kubelettoomanypods
 
-- name: KubeletTooManyPods alert (multi-node)
+- name: KubeletTooManyPods alert (multi-node with instance as node name)
   interval: 1m
   input_series:
   - series: 'kubelet_running_pods{cluster="kubernetes", instance="node0", job="kubelet"}'
     values: '3x15'
+  - series: 'kubelet_node_name{cluster="kubernetes", instance="node0", node="node0", job="kubelet"}'
+    values: '1x15'
   - series: 'kube_node_status_capacity{cluster="kubernetes", node="node0", job="kube-state-metrics", resource="pods", unit="integer"}'
     values: '6x15'
   - series: 'kubelet_running_pods{cluster="kubernetes", instance="node1", job="kubelet"}'
     values: '3x15'
+  - series: 'kubelet_node_name{cluster="kubernetes", instance="node1", node="node1", job="kubelet"}'
+    values: '1x15'
   - series: 'kube_node_status_capacity{cluster="kubernetes", node="node1", job="kube-state-metrics", resource="pods", unit="integer"}'
     values: '3x15'
   alert_rule_test:
@@ -444,6 +451,7 @@ tests:
     exp_alerts:
     - exp_labels:
         cluster: kubernetes
+        instance: node1
         node: node1
         severity: info
       exp_annotations: