DKP Insights 1.0.0 Features and Enhancements
Welcome to DKP Insights 1.0.0!
This release provides upgrade support, alert notification integration and General Availability. It also maintains compatibility and support for packages used in Insights.
DKP Insights GA
We are happy to announce that with this release, Insights graduates from the Technical Preview status and is now officially generally available (GA).
With 1.0.0, Insights becomes an officially supported D2iQ product, fully integrated with DKP, which marks a milestone in continuing to provide a powerful solution that leverages D2iQ expertise to simplify Kubernetes management and helps overcome the skills gap.
Upgrade Support
In prior versions, it was not possible to upgrade Insights. Customers upgrading had to uninstall DKP Insights, upgrade DKP, and reinstall DKP Insights. Starting with DKP version 2.7.0, DKP Insights (1.0.0) is upgraded as part of the DKP upgrade, making it possible to upgrade from version to version without losing information on the generated Insights.
See DKP Insights Upgrade to 1.0.0 (DKP 2.7.0) for more information on the possible upgrade paths.
Alert Notifications with Alertmanager
You can configure an AlertmanagerConfig
YAML file to allow your default installation of Alertmanager (included with Kube Prometheus Stack) to send notifications for DKP Insights alerts. See DKP Insights Alert Notifications With Alertmanager for more information.
The section also includes two configuration examples to enable DKP to automatically send notifications for Critical alerts through Slack®, or Microsoft Teams®.
Supported Kubernetes Versions
Insights supports the same Kubernetes version as the DKP platform.
Insights Alerts of Customer Workloads
DKP Insights 1.0.0 focuses on troubleshooting issues related to your organization’s workloads. After deploying Insights or upgrading to this version, you may not see any alerts for underlying DKP and Kubernetes components.
DKP Insights starts generating alerts after you deploy your own workloads, given that these are not compliant with DKP Insights standards (for example, because it detects weak permissions or a full disk).
If you need to enable Insights Alerts on all components, including underlying DKP and Kubernetes components, see Enable DKP-Related Insights Alerts.
Known Issues
CIS Benchmark Alerts
When running kube-bench analyses, Insights creates alerts for security-related issues based on the CIS Benchmark. In this release, some of these alerts are related to elements of clusters that were created with Konvoy, DKP’s provisioning tool.
For customers who require CIS Benchmark compliance, D2iQ provides a list of mitigations and explanations for clusters created with Konvoy. You can use these documented resources to either manually mitigate the issues, or better understand why these cannot be mitigated.