Dash0 Kubernetes Operator

Overview

The Dash0 Kubernetes operator is designed to easily gather telemetry from your cluster and its deployed workloads. It comes with built-in best practices for Kubernetes, automatic workload identification and instrumentation, and support for configuration as code.

The Dash0 operator for Kubernetes is 100% open source, made of several OpenTelemetry components optimized to provide a great out-of-the-box experience monitoring your Kubernetes workloads.

You can learn more about the Dash0 K8s operator within our documentation.

Use Cases

• Automatically instrument your Node.js and Java workloads
• Collect logs from your Kubernetes cluster automatically
• Monitor Kubernetes cluster and workload metrics
• Scrape Prometheus alert rules and Perses dashboards for configuration-as-code

Overview

Let's get the Dash0 Kubernetes Operator installed. It only takes a few minutes!

Install the Dash0 Operator Helm Chart

Add the Helm chart for the Dash0 operator to your Helm repository.

Provide your Dash0 Authorization token

You need a Dash0 authorization token to connect to Dash0's servers for data transmission. We recommend to store it securely within a Kubernetes secret in the namespace where you will install the Dash0 operator.

Deploy the Dash0 operator to your Kubernetes cluster

Next, let's deploy the Dash0 operator via its Helm chart.

Enabling the Operator for a Namespace

Observability with the Dash0 operator must be enabled for each namespace. To monitor a namespace, create in it a resource like the following.

Learn more about the Dash0 operator

Consult the Dash0 documentation or the Helm chart documentation to learn more about the features of the Dash0 operator.