Enable tracing

This guide contains the steps to enable tracing with Grafana Tempo for your PostgreSQL K8s application.

To summarize:

• Deploy the Tempo charms and their dependencies in a COS K8s environment
• Offer interfaces for cross-model integrations
• Consume and integrate cross-model integrations
• View PostgreSQL K8s traces on Grafana

Prerequisites

Enabling tracing with Tempo requires that you:

• Have deployed a Charmed PostgreSQL K8s application
  • See How to scale units
• Have deployed a ‘cos-lite’ bundle from the latest/edge track in a Kubernetes environment
  • See Getting started on MicroK8s

Deploy Tempo

First, switch to the Kubernetes controller where the COS model is deployed:

juju switch <k8s_controller_name>:<cos_model_name>

Then, deploy the dependencies of Tempo following this tutorial. In particular, we would want to:

• Deploy the minio charm
• Deploy the s3 integrator charm
• Add a bucket in minio using a python script
• Configure s3 integrator with the minio credentials

Finally, deploy and integratre with Tempo HA in a monolithic setup.

Offer interfaces

Next, offer interfaces for cross-model integrations from the model where Charmed PostgreSQL K8s is deployed.

To offer the Tempo integration, run

juju offer <tempo_coordinator_k8s_application_name>:tracing

Then, switch to the Charmed PostgreSQL K8s model, find the offers, and integrate (relate) with them:

juju switch <k8s_controller_name>:<postgresql_k8s_model_name>

juju find-offers <k8s_controller_name>:

Do not miss the “:” in the command above.

Below is a sample output where k8s is the K8s controller name and cos is the model where cos-lite and tempo-k8s are deployed:

Store  URL                            Access  Interfaces
k8s    admin/cos.tempo                admin   tracing:tracing

Next, consume this offer so that it is reachable from the current model:

juju consume k8s:admin/cos.tempo

Consume interfaces

First, deploy Grafana Agent K8s from the latest/edge channel:

juju deploy grafana-agent-k8s --channel latest-edge 

Then, integrate Grafana Agent K8s with the consumed interface from the previous section:

juju integrate grafana-agent-k8s: tracing tempo:tracing

Finally, integrate Charmed PostgreSQL K8s with Grafana Agent K8s:

juju integrate postgresql-k8s:tracing grafana-agent-k8s:tracing-provider

Wait until the model settles. The following is an example of the juju status --relations on the Charmed PostgreSQL model:

Model     Controller  Cloud/Region        Version  SLA          Timestamp
database  k8s         microk8s/localhost  3.5.4    unsupported  16:52:21Z

SAAS   Status  Store       URL
tempo  active  k8s         admin/cos.tempo

App                Version  Status  Scale  Charm              Channel      Rev  Address         Exposed  Message
grafana-agent-k8s  0.40.4   active      1  grafana-agent-k8s  latest/edge   93  10.152.183.226  no       grafana-dashboards-provider: off, logging-consumer: off, send-remote-write: off
postgresql-k8s     14.13    active      1  postgresql-k8s                    0  10.152.183.96   no       

Unit                  Workload  Agent  Address       Ports  Message
grafana-agent-k8s/0*  active    idle   10.1.241.195         grafana-dashboards-provider: off, logging-consumer: off, send-remote-write: off
postgresql-k8s/0*     active    idle   10.1.241.197         Primary

Integration provider                Requirer                       Interface              Type     Message
grafana-agent-k8s:peers             grafana-agent-k8s:peers        grafana_agent_replica  peer     
grafana-agent-k8s:tracing-provider  postgresql-k8s:tracing         tracing                regular  
postgresql-k8s:database-peers       postgresql-k8s:database-peers  postgresql_peers       peer     
postgresql-k8s:restart              postgresql-k8s:restart         rolling_op             peer     
postgresql-k8s:upgrade              postgresql-k8s:upgrade         upgrade                peer     
tempo:tracing                       grafana-agent-k8s:tracing      tracing                regular  

View traces

After this is complete, the Tempo traces will be accessible from Grafana under the Explore section with tempo-k8s as the data source. You will be able to select postgresql-k8s as the Service Name under the Search tab to view traces belonging to Charmed PostgreSQL K8s.

Below is a screenshot demonstrating a Charmed PostgreSQL K8s trace:

Feel free to read through the Tempo HA documentation at your leisure to explore its deployment and its integrations.