Installing the LM Container Helm Chart

We have significantly improved the ability to install our container monitoring services to your Kubernetes cluster. With our unified LM Container Helm chart, you can install all the services necessary to monitor your Kubernetes cluster, including Argus, Collectorset-Controller, and the kube-state-metrics (KSM) service. The new chart automatically manages the compatibility between the components, greatly simplifying the installation and upgrade process.

There is no separate method for installing LM Containers on your Red Hat OpenShift, or Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) from Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) from Microsoft Azure, or Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) from Google Cloud platforms. The unified LM Container Helm chart supports these platforms for LM Container Installation. For more information, see Support Matrix for Kubernetes Monitoring.

Requirements

• Install Helm to use the charts. For more information, see the Helm documentation.
• Ensure you have the necessary LogicMonitor portal and Kubernetes Cluster permission. For more information, see Kubernetes Monitoring Considerations and Required Permissions.

Procedure

1. Log in to the LogicMonitor account.

2. Navigate to Settings > Users & Roles > LMv1 API Tokens.

3. Click to create a new API token and enter the following details:

• User: Select the required user with appropriate admin access.
• Access ID: Copy accessID
• Access Key: Copy accessKey

• Note: (Optional) You can enter a note. For example, you can add a description regarding the usage of the API token.

4. Enter the following command to add the LogicMonitor Helm repository:

helm repo add logicmonitor https://logicmonitor.github.io/helm-charts 

5. Select the required Helm chart version for installation using the following steps:

• To load the latest version of the charts in the repository, enter the following command:
  helm repo update logicmonitor

• To check the current version of the LM Container chart, enter the following command:
  helm search repo -r logicmonitor/lm-container

• Define version criteria using the selected version by applying the following rules:
  
  • For example, you have selected 1.0.0 
  • Define version criteria as “1” to automatically roll out new versions with newly added features and fixes
  • Define version criteria as “1.0” to automatically rollout only fixed versions and not the newly added features
  • Define version criteria as specific version “1.0.0” to roll out new versions manually

6. Create a Helm chart configuration.yaml file:
Example:  lmc-configuration.yaml

argus:
  clusterName: "<friendly-cluster-name>"
  clusterTreeParentID: <Mandatory in case of non-admin installations, optional otherwise: parent-resource group-id under which resource tree will be created. 
A non-admin user must have the manage access on resource group to be able to install the chart>
  resourceContainerID: <Mandatory in case of non-admin installations, resource group-id under which all the resources will be created. 
A non-admin user must have the manage access on resource group to be able to install the chart>
global:
  accessID: "<access-id> created in previous step"
  accessKey: "<access-key> created in previous step"
  account: "logicmonitor-account-name - if xxx.logicmonitor.com is url then value be xxx here"

7. Install Helm chart using the following command:

helm upgrade --install --debug --wait --namespace="logicmonitor" --create-namespace -f ./lmc-configuration.yaml lmc --version "<version-criteria>" logicmonitor/lm-container