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author | GitLab Bot <gitlab-bot@gitlab.com> | 2020-01-14 00:08:14 +0000 |
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committer | GitLab Bot <gitlab-bot@gitlab.com> | 2020-01-14 00:08:14 +0000 |
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diff --git a/doc/user/clusters/applications.md b/doc/user/clusters/applications.md index 1bb608c38ab..f2be9b2f3ac 100644 --- a/doc/user/clusters/applications.md +++ b/doc/user/clusters/applications.md @@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ The following applications can be installed: - [JupyterHub](#jupyterhub) - [Knative](#knative) - [Crossplane](#crossplane) +- [Elastic Stack](#elastic-stack) With the exception of Knative, the applications will be installed in a dedicated namespace called `gitlab-managed-apps`. @@ -431,6 +432,38 @@ administrator to run following command within a Rails console: Feature.enable(:enable_cluster_application_crossplane) ``` +### Elastic Stack + +> Introduced in GitLab 12.7 for project- and group-level clusters. + +[Elastic Stack](https://www.elastic.co/products/elastic-stack) is a complete end-to-end +log analysis solution which helps in deep searching, analyzing and visualizing the logs +generated from different machines. + +GitLab is able to gather logs from pods in your cluster automatically. +Filebeat will run as a DaemonSet on each node in your cluster, and it will ship container logs to Elasticsearch for querying. +GitLab will then connect to Elasticsearch for logs instead of the Kubernetes API, +and you will have access to more advanced querying capabilities. + +This is a preliminary release of Elastic Stack as a GitLab-managed application. By default, +the ability to install it is disabled. + +To allow installation of Elastic Stack as a GitLab-managed application, ask a GitLab +administrator to run following command within a Rails console: + +```ruby +Feature.enable(:enable_cluster_application_elastic_stack) +``` + +Once the feature flag is set, to enable log shipping, install Elastic Stack into the cluster with the +**Install** button. + +NOTE: **Note:** +The [`stable/elastic-stack`](https://github.com/helm/charts/tree/master/stable/elastic-stack) +chart is used to install this application with a +[`values.yaml`](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/blob/master/vendor/elastic_stack/values.yaml) +file. + ## Install using GitLab CI (alpha) > [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/merge_requests/20822) in GitLab 12.6. @@ -639,6 +672,7 @@ The applications below can be uninstalled. | Knative | 12.1+ | The associated IP will be deleted and cannot be restored. | | Prometheus | 11.11+ | All data will be deleted and cannot be restored. | | Crossplane | 12.5+ | All data will be deleted and cannot be restored. | +| Elastic Stack | 12.7+ | All data will be deleted and cannot be restored. | | Sentry | 12.6+ | The PostgreSQL persistent volume will remain and should be manually removed for complete uninstall. | To uninstall an application: diff --git a/doc/user/project/clusters/kubernetes_pod_logs.md b/doc/user/project/clusters/kubernetes_pod_logs.md index 797ddf784cc..7cd5d99ef67 100644 --- a/doc/user/project/clusters/kubernetes_pod_logs.md +++ b/doc/user/project/clusters/kubernetes_pod_logs.md @@ -41,9 +41,37 @@ Logs can be displayed by clicking on a specific pod from [Deploy Boards](../depl 1. On the **Environments** page, you should see the status of the environment's pods with [Deploy Boards](../deploy_boards.md). 1. When mousing over the list of pods, a tooltip will appear with the exact pod name and status. ![Deploy Boards pod list](img/pod_logs_deploy_board.png) -1. Click on the desired pod to bring up the logs view, which will contain the last 500 lines for that pod. - You may switch between the following in this view: - - Pods. - - [From GitLab 12.4](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/issues/5769), environments. +1. Click on the desired pod to bring up the logs view. - Support for pods with multiple containers is coming [in a future release](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/issues/6502). +### Logs view + +The logs view will contain the last 500 lines for a pod, and has control to filter via: + +- Pods. +- [From GitLab 12.4](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/issues/5769), environments. +- [From GitLab 12.7](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/merge_requests/21656), [full text search](#full-text-search). + +Support for pods with multiple containers is coming [in a future release](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/issues/13404). + +Support for historical data is coming [in a future release](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/issues/196191). + +### Full text search + +> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/merge_requests/21656) in GitLab 12.7. + +When you enable [Elastic Stack](../../clusters/applications.md#elastic-stack) on your cluster, +you can search the content of your logs via a search bar. + +The search is passed on to Elasticsearch using the [simple_query_string](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-simple-query-string-query.html) +Elasticsearch function, which supports the following operators: + +``` ++ signifies AND operation +| signifies OR operation +- negates a single token +" wraps a number of tokens to signify a phrase for searching +* at the end of a term signifies a prefix query +( and ) signify precedence +~N after a word signifies edit distance (fuzziness) +~N after a phrase signifies slop amount +``` |