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Type: application Version: 0.25.17 Artifact Hub

Kubernetes monitoring on VictoriaMetrics stack. Includes VictoriaMetrics Operator, Grafana dashboards, ServiceScrapes and VMRules

Overview

This chart is an All-in-one solution to start monitoring kubernetes cluster. It installs multiple dependency charts like grafana, node-exporter, kube-state-metrics and victoria-metrics-operator. Also it installs Custom Resources like VMSingle, VMCluster, VMAgent, VMAlert.

By default, the operator converts all existing prometheus-operator API objects into corresponding VictoriaMetrics Operator objects.

To enable metrics collection for kubernetes this chart installs multiple scrape configurations for kuberenetes components like kubelet and kube-proxy, etc. Metrics collection is done by VMAgent. So if want to ship metrics to external VictoriaMetrics database you can disable VMSingle installation by setting vmsingle.enabled to false and setting vmagent.vmagentSpec.remoteWrite.url to your external VictoriaMetrics database.

This chart also installs bunch of dashboards and recording rules from kube-prometheus project.

Overview

Configuration

Configuration of this chart is done through helm values.

Dependencies

Dependencies can be enabled or disabled by setting enabled to true or false in values.yaml file.

!Important: for dependency charts anything that you can find in values.yaml of dependency chart can be configured in this chart under key for that dependency. For example if you want to configure grafana you can find all possible configuration options in values.yaml and you should set them in values for this chart under grafana: key. For example if you want to configure grafana.persistence.enabled you should set it in values.yaml like this:

#################################################
###              dependencies               #####
#################################################
# Grafana dependency chart configuration. For possible values refer to https://github.com/grafana/helm-charts/tree/main/charts/grafana#configuration
grafana:
  enabled: true
  persistence:
    type: pvc
    enabled: false

VictoriaMetrics components

This chart installs multiple VictoriaMetrics components using Custom Resources that are managed by victoria-metrics-operator Each resource can be configured using spec of that resource from API docs of victoria-metrics-operator. For example if you want to configure VMAgent you can find all possible configuration options in API docs and you should set them in values for this chart under vmagent.spec key. For example if you want to configure remoteWrite.url you should set it in values.yaml like this:

vmagent:
  spec:
    remoteWrite:
      - url: "https://insert.vmcluster.domain.com/insert/0/prometheus/api/v1/write"

ArgoCD issues

Operator self signed certificates

When deploying K8s stack using ArgoCD without Cert Manager (.Values.victoria-metrics-operator.admissionWebhooks.certManager.enabled: false) it will rerender operator's webhook certificates on each sync since Helm lookup function is not respected by ArgoCD. To prevent this please update you K8s stack Application spec.syncPolicy and spec.ignoreDifferences with a following:

apiVersion: argoproj.io/v1alpha1
kind: Application
...
spec:
  ...
  syncPolicy:
    syncOptions:
    # https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user-guide/sync-options/#respect-ignore-difference-configs
    # argocd must also ignore difference during apply stage
    # otherwise it ll silently override changes and cause a problem
    - RespectIgnoreDifferences=true
  ignoreDifferences:
    - group: ""
      kind: Secret
      name: <fullname>-validation
      namespace: kube-system
      jsonPointers:
        - /data
    - group: admissionregistration.k8s.io
      kind: ValidatingWebhookConfiguration
      name: <fullname>-admission
      jqPathExpressions:
      - '.webhooks[]?.clientConfig.caBundle'

where <fullname> is output of {{ include "vm-operator.fullname" }} for your setup

metadata.annotations: Too long: must have at most 262144 bytes on dashboards

If one of dashboards ConfigMap is failing with error Too long: must have at most 262144 bytes, please make sure you've added argocd.argoproj.io/sync-options: ServerSideApply=true annotation to your dashboards:

grafana:
  sidecar:
    dashboards:
      additionalDashboardAnnotations
        argocd.argoproj.io/sync-options: ServerSideApply=true

argocd.argoproj.io/sync-options: ServerSideApply=true

Rules and dashboards

This chart by default install multiple dashboards and recording rules from kube-prometheus you can disable dashboards with defaultDashboardsEnabled: false and experimentalDashboardsEnabled: false and rules can be configured under defaultRules

Prometheus scrape configs

This chart installs multiple scrape configurations for kubernetes monitoring. They are configured under #ServiceMonitors section in values.yaml file. For example if you want to configure scrape config for kubelet you should set it in values.yaml like this:

kubelet:
  enabled: true
  # spec for VMNodeScrape crd
  # https://docs.victoriametrics.com/operator/api#vmnodescrapespec
  spec:
    interval: "30s"

Using externally managed Grafana

If you want to use an externally managed Grafana instance but still want to use the dashboards provided by this chart you can set grafana.enabled to false and set defaultDashboardsEnabled to true. This will install the dashboards but will not install Grafana.

For example:

defaultDashboardsEnabled: true

grafana:
  enabled: false

This will create ConfigMaps with dashboards to be imported into Grafana.

If additional configuration for labels or annotations is needed in order to import dashboard to an existing Grafana you can set .grafana.sidecar.dashboards.additionalDashboardLabels or .grafana.sidecar.dashboards.additionalDashboardAnnotations in values.yaml:

For example:

defaultDashboardsEnabled: true

grafana:
  enabled: false
  sidecar:
    dashboards:
      additionalDashboardLabels:
        key: value
      additionalDashboardAnnotations:
        key: value

Prerequisites

  • Install the follow packages: git, kubectl, helm, helm-docs. See this tutorial.

  • Add dependency chart repositories

helm repo add grafana https://grafana.github.io/helm-charts
helm repo add prometheus-community https://prometheus-community.github.io/helm-charts
helm repo update
  • PV support on underlying infrastructure.

How to install

Access a Kubernetes cluster.

Setup chart repository (can be omitted for OCI repositories)

Add a chart helm repository with follow commands:

helm repo add vm https://victoriametrics.github.io/helm-charts/

helm repo update

List versions of vm/victoria-metrics-k8s-stack chart available to installation:

helm search repo vm/victoria-metrics-k8s-stack -l

Install victoria-metrics-k8s-stack chart

Export default values of victoria-metrics-k8s-stack chart to file values.yaml:

  • For HTTPS repository

    helm show values vm/victoria-metrics-k8s-stack > values.yaml
    
  • For OCI repository

    helm show values oci://ghcr.io/victoriametrics/helm-charts/victoria-metrics-k8s-stack > values.yaml
    

Change the values according to the need of the environment in values.yaml file.

Test the installation with command:

  • For HTTPS repository

    helm install vmks vm/victoria-metrics-k8s-stack -f values.yaml -n NAMESPACE --debug --dry-run
    
  • For OCI repository

    helm install vmks oci://ghcr.io/victoriametrics/helm-charts/victoria-metrics-k8s-stack -f values.yaml -n NAMESPACE --debug --dry-run
    

Install chart with command:

  • For HTTPS repository

    helm install vmks vm/victoria-metrics-k8s-stack -f values.yaml -n NAMESPACE
    
  • For OCI repository

    helm install vmks oci://ghcr.io/victoriametrics/helm-charts/victoria-metrics-k8s-stack -f values.yaml -n NAMESPACE
    

Get the pods lists by running this commands:

kubectl get pods -A | grep 'vmks'

Get the application by running this command:

helm list -f vmks -n NAMESPACE

See the history of versions of vmks application with command.

helm history vmks -n NAMESPACE

Install locally (Minikube)

To run VictoriaMetrics stack locally it's possible to use Minikube. To avoid dashboards and alert rules issues please follow the steps below:

Run Minikube cluster

minikube start --container-runtime=containerd --extra-config=scheduler.bind-address=0.0.0.0 --extra-config=controller-manager.bind-address=0.0.0.0

Install helm chart

helm install [RELEASE_NAME] vm/victoria-metrics-k8s-stack -f values.yaml -f values.minikube.yaml -n NAMESPACE --debug --dry-run

How to uninstall

Remove application with command.

helm uninstall vmks -n NAMESPACE

CRDs created by this chart are not removed by default and should be manually cleaned up:

kubectl get crd | grep victoriametrics.com | awk '{print $1 }' | xargs -i kubectl delete crd {}

Troubleshooting

  • If you cannot install helm chart with error configmap already exist. It could happen because of name collisions, if you set too long release name. Kubernetes by default, allows only 63 symbols at resource names and all resource names are trimmed by helm to 63 symbols. To mitigate it, use shorter name for helm chart release name, like:
# stack - is short enough
helm upgrade -i stack vm/victoria-metrics-k8s-stack

Or use override for helm chart release name:

helm upgrade -i some-very-long-name vm/victoria-metrics-k8s-stack --set fullnameOverride=stack

Upgrade guide

Usually, helm upgrade doesn't requires manual actions. Just execute command:

$ helm upgrade [RELEASE_NAME] vm/victoria-metrics-k8s-stack

But release with CRD update can only be patched manually with kubectl. Since helm does not perform a CRD update, we recommend that you always perform this when updating the helm-charts version:

# 1. check the changes in CRD
$ helm show crds vm/victoria-metrics-k8s-stack --version [YOUR_CHART_VERSION] | kubectl diff -f -

# 2. apply the changes (update CRD)
$ helm show crds vm/victoria-metrics-k8s-stack --version [YOUR_CHART_VERSION] | kubectl apply -f - --server-side

All other manual actions upgrades listed below:

Upgrade to 0.13.0

  • node-exporter starting from version 4.0.0 is using the Kubernetes recommended labels. Therefore you have to delete the daemonset before you upgrade.
kubectl delete daemonset -l app=prometheus-node-exporter
  • scrape configuration for kubernetes components was moved from vmServiceScrape.spec section to spec section. If you previously modified scrape configuration you need to update your values.yaml

  • grafana.defaultDashboardsEnabled was renamed to defaultDashboardsEnabled (moved to top level). You may need to update it in your values.yaml

Upgrade to 0.6.0

All CRD must be update to the lastest version with command:

kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/VictoriaMetrics/helm-charts/master/charts/victoria-metrics-k8s-stack/crds/crd.yaml

Upgrade to 0.4.0

All CRD must be update to v1 version with command:

kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/VictoriaMetrics/helm-charts/master/charts/victoria-metrics-k8s-stack/crds/crd.yaml

Upgrade from 0.2.8 to 0.2.9

Update VMAgent crd

command:

kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/VictoriaMetrics/operator/v0.16.0/config/crd/bases/operator.victoriametrics.com_vmagents.yaml

Upgrade from 0.2.5 to 0.2.6

New CRD added to operator - VMUser and VMAuth, new fields added to exist crd. Manual commands:

kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/VictoriaMetrics/operator/v0.15.0/config/crd/bases/operator.victoriametrics.com_vmusers.yaml
kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/VictoriaMetrics/operator/v0.15.0/config/crd/bases/operator.victoriametrics.com_vmauths.yaml
kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/VictoriaMetrics/operator/v0.15.0/config/crd/bases/operator.victoriametrics.com_vmalerts.yaml
kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/VictoriaMetrics/operator/v0.15.0/config/crd/bases/operator.victoriametrics.com_vmagents.yaml
kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/VictoriaMetrics/operator/v0.15.0/config/crd/bases/operator.victoriametrics.com_vmsingles.yaml
kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/VictoriaMetrics/operator/v0.15.0/config/crd/bases/operator.victoriametrics.com_vmclusters.yaml

Documentation of Helm Chart

Install helm-docs following the instructions on this tutorial.

Generate docs with helm-docs command.

cd charts/victoria-metrics-k8s-stack

helm-docs

The markdown generation is entirely go template driven. The tool parses metadata from charts and generates a number of sub-templates that can be referenced in a template file (by default README.md.gotmpl). If no template file is provided, the tool has a default internal template that will generate a reasonably formatted README.

Parameters

The following tables lists the configurable parameters of the chart and their default values.

Change the values according to the need of the environment in victoria-metrics-k8s-stack/values.yaml file.

Key Type Default Description
additionalVictoriaMetricsMap string
null
alertmanager.annotations object
{}
alertmanager.config object
receivers:
    - name: blackhole
route:
    receiver: blackhole
templates:
    - /etc/vm/configs/**/*.tmpl

alertmanager configuration

alertmanager.enabled bool
true
alertmanager.ingress object
annotations: {}
enabled: false
extraPaths: []
hosts:
    - alertmanager.domain.com
labels: {}
path: '{{ .Values.alertmanager.spec.routePrefix | default "/" }}'
pathType: Prefix
tls: []

alertmanager ingress configuration

alertmanager.monzoTemplate.enabled bool
true
alertmanager.spec object
configSecret: ""
externalURL: ""
image:
    tag: v0.25.0
port: "9093"
routePrefix: /
selectAllByDefault: true

full spec for VMAlertmanager CRD. Allowed values described here

alertmanager.spec.configSecret string
""

if this one defined, it will be used for alertmanager configuration and config parameter will be ignored

alertmanager.templateFiles object
{}

extra alert templates

argocdReleaseOverride string
""

For correct working need set value argocdReleaseOverride=$ARGOCD_APP_NAME

coreDns.enabled bool
true
coreDns.service.enabled bool
true
coreDns.service.port int
9153
coreDns.service.selector.k8s-app string
kube-dns
coreDns.service.targetPort int
9153
coreDns.vmScrape object
spec:
    endpoints:
        - bearerTokenFile: /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token
          port: http-metrics
    jobLabel: jobLabel
    namespaceSelector:
        matchNames:
            - kube-system

spec for VMServiceScrape crd https://docs.victoriametrics.com/operator/api.html#vmservicescrapespec

crds.enabled bool
true
dashboards object
node-exporter-full: true
operator: false
vmalert: false

Enable dashboards despite its dependency is not installed

dashboards.node-exporter-full bool
true

in ArgoCD using client-side apply this dashboard reaches annotations size limit and causes k8s issues without server side apply See this issue

defaultDashboardsEnabled bool
true

Create default dashboards

defaultRules object
alerting:
    spec:
        annotations: {}
        labels: {}
annotations: {}
create: true
group:
    spec:
        params: {}
groups:
    alertmanager:
        create: true
        rules: {}
    etcd:
        create: true
        rules: {}
    general:
        create: true
        rules: {}
    k8sContainerCpuUsageSecondsTotal:
        create: true
        rules: {}
    k8sContainerMemoryCache:
        create: true
        rules: {}
    k8sContainerMemoryRss:
        create: true
        rules: {}
    k8sContainerMemorySwap:
        create: true
        rules: {}
    k8sContainerMemoryWorkingSetBytes:
        create: true
        rules: {}
    k8sContainerResource:
        create: true
        rules: {}
    k8sPodOwner:
        create: true
        rules: {}
    kubeApiserver:
        create: true
        rules: {}
    kubeApiserverAvailability:
        create: true
        rules: {}
    kubeApiserverBurnrate:
        create: true
        rules: {}
    kubeApiserverHistogram:
        create: true
        rules: {}
    kubeApiserverSlos:
        create: true
        rules: {}
    kubePrometheusGeneral:
        create: true
        rules: {}
    kubePrometheusNodeRecording:
        create: true
        rules: {}
    kubeScheduler:
        create: true
        rules: {}
    kubeStateMetrics:
        create: true
        rules: {}
    kubelet:
        create: true
        rules: {}
    kubernetesApps:
        create: true
        rules: {}
        targetNamespace: .*
    kubernetesResources:
        create: true
        rules: {}
    kubernetesStorage:
        create: true
        rules: {}
        targetNamespace: .*
    kubernetesSystem:
        create: true
        rules: {}
    kubernetesSystemApiserver:
        create: true
        rules: {}
    kubernetesSystemControllerManager:
        create: true
        rules: {}
    kubernetesSystemKubelet:
        create: true
        rules: {}
    kubernetesSystemScheduler:
        create: true
        rules: {}
    node:
        create: true
        rules: {}
    nodeNetwork:
        create: true
        rules: {}
    vmHealth:
        create: true
        rules: {}
    vmagent:
        create: true
        rules: {}
    vmcluster:
        create: true
        rules: {}
    vmoperator:
        create: true
        rules: {}
    vmsingle:
        create: true
        rules: {}
labels: {}
recording:
    spec:
        annotations: {}
        labels: {}
rule:
    spec:
        annotations: {}
        labels: {}
rules: {}
runbookUrl: https://runbooks.prometheus-operator.dev/runbooks

Create default rules for monitoring the cluster

defaultRules.alerting object
spec:
    annotations: {}
    labels: {}

Common properties for VMRules alerts

defaultRules.alerting.spec.annotations object
{}

Additional annotations for VMRule alerts

defaultRules.alerting.spec.labels object
{}

Additional labels for VMRule alerts

defaultRules.annotations object
{}

Annotations for default rules

defaultRules.group object
spec:
    params: {}

Common properties for VMRule groups

defaultRules.group.spec.params object
{}

Optional HTTP URL parameters added to each rule request

defaultRules.groups.etcd.rules object
{}

Common properties for all rules in a group

defaultRules.labels object
{}

Labels for default rules

defaultRules.recording object
spec:
    annotations: {}
    labels: {}

Common properties for VMRules recording rules

defaultRules.recording.spec.annotations object
{}

Additional annotations for VMRule recording rules

defaultRules.recording.spec.labels object
{}

Additional labels for VMRule recording rules

defaultRules.rule object
spec:
    annotations: {}
    labels: {}

Common properties for all VMRules

defaultRules.rule.spec.annotations object
{}

Additional annotations for all VMRules

defaultRules.rule.spec.labels object
{}

Additional labels for all VMRules

defaultRules.rules object
{}

Per rule properties

defaultRules.runbookUrl string
https://runbooks.prometheus-operator.dev/runbooks

Runbook url prefix for default rules

experimentalDashboardsEnabled bool
true

Create experimental dashboards

externalVM.read.url string
""
externalVM.write.url string
""
extraObjects list
[]

Add extra objects dynamically to this chart

fullnameOverride string
""
global.clusterLabel string
cluster
global.license.key string
""
global.license.keyRef object
{}
grafana.additionalDataSources list
[]
grafana.defaultDashboardsTimezone string
utc
grafana.defaultDatasourceType string
prometheus
grafana.enabled bool
true
grafana.forceDeployDatasource bool
false
grafana.ingress.annotations object
{}
grafana.ingress.enabled bool
false
grafana.ingress.extraPaths list
[]
grafana.ingress.hosts[0] string
grafana.domain.com
grafana.ingress.labels object
{}
grafana.ingress.path string
/
grafana.ingress.pathType string
Prefix
grafana.ingress.tls list
[]
grafana.sidecar.dashboards.additionalDashboardAnnotations object
{}
grafana.sidecar.dashboards.additionalDashboardLabels object
{}
grafana.sidecar.dashboards.defaultFolderName string
default
grafana.sidecar.dashboards.enabled bool
true
grafana.sidecar.dashboards.folder string
/var/lib/grafana/dashboards
grafana.sidecar.dashboards.multicluster bool
false
grafana.sidecar.dashboards.provider.name string
default
grafana.sidecar.dashboards.provider.orgid int
1
grafana.sidecar.datasources.createVMReplicasDatasources bool
false
grafana.sidecar.datasources.default list
- isDefault: true
  name: VictoriaMetrics
- isDefault: false
  name: VictoriaMetrics (DS)
  type: victoriametrics-datasource

list of default prometheus compatible datasource configurations. VM url will be added to each of them in templates and type will be set to defaultDatasourceType if not defined

grafana.sidecar.datasources.enabled bool
true
grafana.sidecar.datasources.initDatasources bool
true
grafana.vmScrape object
enabled: true
spec:
    endpoints:
        - port: '{{ .Values.grafana.service.portName }}'
    selector:
        matchLabels:
            app.kubernetes.io/name: '{{ include "grafana.name" .Subcharts.grafana }}'

grafana VM scrape config

grafana.vmScrape.spec object
endpoints:
    - port: '{{ .Values.grafana.service.portName }}'
selector:
    matchLabels:
        app.kubernetes.io/name: '{{ include "grafana.name" .Subcharts.grafana }}'

Scrape configuration for Grafana

grafanaOperatorDashboardsFormat object
allowCrossNamespaceImport: false
enabled: false
instanceSelector:
    matchLabels:
        dashboards: grafana

Create dashboards as CRDs (reuqires grafana-operator to be installed)

kube-state-metrics.enabled bool
true
kube-state-metrics.vmScrape object
enabled: true
spec:
    endpoints:
        - honorLabels: true
          metricRelabelConfigs:
            - action: labeldrop
              regex: (uid|container_id|image_id)
          port: http
    jobLabel: app.kubernetes.io/name
    selector:
        matchLabels:
            app.kubernetes.io/instance: '{{ include "vm.release" . }}'
            app.kubernetes.io/name: '{{ include "kube-state-metrics.name" (index .Subcharts "kube-state-metrics") }}'

Scrape configuration for Kube State Metrics

kubeApiServer.enabled bool
true
kubeApiServer.vmScrape object
spec:
    endpoints:
        - bearerTokenFile: /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token
          port: https
          scheme: https
          tlsConfig:
            caFile: /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/ca.crt
            serverName: kubernetes
    jobLabel: component
    namespaceSelector:
        matchNames:
            - default
    selector:
        matchLabels:
            component: apiserver
            provider: kubernetes

spec for VMServiceScrape crd https://docs.victoriametrics.com/operator/api.html#vmservicescrapespec

kubeControllerManager.enabled bool
true
kubeControllerManager.endpoints list
[]
kubeControllerManager.service.enabled bool
true
kubeControllerManager.service.port int
10257
kubeControllerManager.service.selector.component string
kube-controller-manager
kubeControllerManager.service.targetPort int
10257
kubeControllerManager.vmScrape object
spec:
    endpoints:
        - bearerTokenFile: /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token
          port: http-metrics
          scheme: https
          tlsConfig:
            caFile: /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/ca.crt
            serverName: kubernetes
    jobLabel: jobLabel
    namespaceSelector:
        matchNames:
            - kube-system

spec for VMServiceScrape crd https://docs.victoriametrics.com/operator/api.html#vmservicescrapespec

kubeDns.enabled bool
false
kubeDns.service.enabled bool
false
kubeDns.service.ports.dnsmasq.port int
10054
kubeDns.service.ports.dnsmasq.targetPort int
10054
kubeDns.service.ports.skydns.port int
10055
kubeDns.service.ports.skydns.targetPort int
10055
kubeDns.service.selector.k8s-app string
kube-dns
kubeDns.vmScrape object
spec:
    endpoints:
        - bearerTokenFile: /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token
          port: http-metrics-dnsmasq
        - bearerTokenFile: /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token
          port: http-metrics-skydns
    jobLabel: jobLabel
    namespaceSelector:
        matchNames:
            - kube-system

spec for VMServiceScrape crd https://docs.victoriametrics.com/operator/api.html#vmservicescrapespec

kubeEtcd.enabled bool
true
kubeEtcd.endpoints list
[]
kubeEtcd.service.enabled bool
true
kubeEtcd.service.port int
2379
kubeEtcd.service.selector.component string
etcd
kubeEtcd.service.targetPort int
2379
kubeEtcd.vmScrape object
spec:
    endpoints:
        - bearerTokenFile: /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token
          port: http-metrics
          scheme: https
          tlsConfig:
            caFile: /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/ca.crt
    jobLabel: jobLabel
    namespaceSelector:
        matchNames:
            - kube-system

spec for VMServiceScrape crd https://docs.victoriametrics.com/operator/api.html#vmservicescrapespec

kubeProxy.enabled bool
false
kubeProxy.endpoints list
[]
kubeProxy.service.enabled bool
true
kubeProxy.service.port int
10249
kubeProxy.service.selector.k8s-app string
kube-proxy
kubeProxy.service.targetPort int
10249
kubeProxy.vmScrape object
spec:
    endpoints:
        - bearerTokenFile: /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token
          port: http-metrics
          scheme: https
          tlsConfig:
            caFile: /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/ca.crt
    jobLabel: jobLabel
    namespaceSelector:
        matchNames:
            - kube-system

spec for VMServiceScrape crd https://docs.victoriametrics.com/operator/api.html#vmservicescrapespec

kubeScheduler.enabled bool
true
kubeScheduler.endpoints list
[]
kubeScheduler.service.enabled bool
true
kubeScheduler.service.port int
10259
kubeScheduler.service.selector.component string
kube-scheduler
kubeScheduler.service.targetPort int
10259
kubeScheduler.vmScrape object
spec:
    endpoints:
        - bearerTokenFile: /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token
          port: http-metrics
          scheme: https
          tlsConfig:
            caFile: /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/ca.crt
    jobLabel: jobLabel
    namespaceSelector:
        matchNames:
            - kube-system

spec for VMServiceScrape crd https://docs.victoriametrics.com/operator/api.html#vmservicescrapespec

kubelet.enabled bool
true
kubelet.vmScrape object
kind: VMNodeScrape
spec:
    bearerTokenFile: /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token
    honorLabels: true
    honorTimestamps: false
    interval: 30s
    metricRelabelConfigs:
        - action: labeldrop
          regex: (uid)
        - action: labeldrop
          regex: (id|name)
        - action: drop
          regex: (rest_client_request_duration_seconds_bucket|rest_client_request_duration_seconds_sum|rest_client_request_duration_seconds_count)
          source_labels:
            - __name__
    relabelConfigs:
        - action: labelmap
          regex: __meta_kubernetes_node_label_(.+)
        - sourceLabels:
            - __metrics_path__
          targetLabel: metrics_path
        - replacement: kubelet
          targetLabel: job
    scheme: https
    scrapeTimeout: 5s
    tlsConfig:
        caFile: /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/ca.crt
        insecureSkipVerify: true

spec for VMNodeScrape crd https://docs.victoriametrics.com/operator/api.html#vmnodescrapespec

kubelet.vmScrapes.cadvisor object
enabled: true
spec:
    path: /metrics/cadvisor

Enable scraping /metrics/cadvisor from kubelets service

kubelet.vmScrapes.kubelet.spec object
{}
kubelet.vmScrapes.probes object
enabled: true
spec:
    path: /metrics/probes

Enable scraping /metrics/probes from kubelets service

nameOverride string
""
prometheus-node-exporter.enabled bool
true
prometheus-node-exporter.extraArgs[0] string
--collector.filesystem.ignored-mount-points=^/(dev|proc|sys|var/lib/docker/.+|var/lib/kubelet/.+)($|/)
prometheus-node-exporter.extraArgs[1] string
--collector.filesystem.ignored-fs-types=^(autofs|binfmt_misc|bpf|cgroup2?|configfs|debugfs|devpts|devtmpfs|fusectl|hugetlbfs|iso9660|mqueue|nsfs|overlay|proc|procfs|pstore|rpc_pipefs|securityfs|selinuxfs|squashfs|sysfs|tracefs)$
prometheus-node-exporter.service.labels.jobLabel string
node-exporter
prometheus-node-exporter.vmScrape object
enabled: true
spec:
    endpoints:
        - metricRelabelConfigs:
            - action: drop
              regex: /var/lib/kubelet/pods.+
              source_labels:
                - mountpoint
          port: metrics
    jobLabel: jobLabel
    selector:
        matchLabels:
            app.kubernetes.io/name: '{{ include "prometheus-node-exporter.name" (index .Subcharts "prometheus-node-exporter") }}'

node exporter VM scrape config

prometheus-node-exporter.vmScrape.spec object
endpoints:
    - metricRelabelConfigs:
        - action: drop
          regex: /var/lib/kubelet/pods.+
          source_labels:
            - mountpoint
      port: metrics
jobLabel: jobLabel
selector:
    matchLabels:
        app.kubernetes.io/name: '{{ include "prometheus-node-exporter.name" (index .Subcharts "prometheus-node-exporter") }}'

Scrape configuration for Node Exporter

prometheus-operator-crds.enabled bool
false
serviceAccount.annotations object
{}

Annotations to add to the service account

serviceAccount.create bool
true

Specifies whether a service account should be created

serviceAccount.name string
""

If not set and create is true, a name is generated using the fullname template

tenant string
"0"
victoria-metrics-operator object
crd:
    cleanup:
        enabled: true
        image:
            pullPolicy: IfNotPresent
            repository: bitnami/kubectl
    create: false
enabled: true
operator:
    disable_prometheus_converter: false
serviceMonitor:
    enabled: true

also checkout here possible ENV variables to configure operator behaviour https://docs.victoriametrics.com/operator/vars

victoria-metrics-operator.crd.cleanup object
enabled: true
image:
    pullPolicy: IfNotPresent
    repository: bitnami/kubectl

tells helm to clean up vm cr resources when uninstalling

victoria-metrics-operator.crd.create bool
false

we disable crd creation by operator chart as we create them in this chart

victoria-metrics-operator.operator.disable_prometheus_converter bool
false

By default, operator converts prometheus-operator objects.

vmagent.additionalRemoteWrites list
[]

remoteWrite configuration of VMAgent, allowed parameters defined in a spec

vmagent.annotations object
{}
vmagent.enabled bool
true
vmagent.ingress object
annotations: {}
enabled: false
extraPaths: []
hosts:
    - vmagent.domain.com
labels: {}
path: ""
pathType: Prefix
tls: []

vmagent ingress configuration

vmagent.ingress.extraPaths list
[]

Extra paths to prepend to every host configuration. This is useful when working with annotation based services.

vmagent.spec object
externalLabels: {}
extraArgs:
    promscrape.dropOriginalLabels: "true"
    promscrape.streamParse: "true"
image:
    tag: v1.103.0
port: "8429"
scrapeInterval: 20s
selectAllByDefault: true

full spec for VMAgent CRD. Allowed values described here

vmalert.additionalNotifierConfigs object
{}
vmalert.annotations object
{}
vmalert.enabled bool
true
vmalert.ingress object
annotations: {}
enabled: false
extraPaths: []
hosts:
    - vmalert.domain.com
labels: {}
path: ""
pathType: Prefix
tls: []

vmalert ingress config

vmalert.remoteWriteVMAgent bool
false
vmalert.spec object
evaluationInterval: 15s
externalLabels: {}
extraArgs:
    http.pathPrefix: /
image:
    tag: v1.103.0
port: "8080"
selectAllByDefault: true

full spec for VMAlert CRD. Allowed values described here

vmalert.templateFiles object
{}

extra vmalert annotation templates

vmauth.annotations object
{}
vmauth.enabled bool
false
vmauth.spec object
discover_backend_ips: true
port: "8427"

full spec for VMAuth CRD. Allowed values described here

vmcluster.annotations object
{}
vmcluster.enabled bool
false
vmcluster.ingress.insert.annotations object
{}
vmcluster.ingress.insert.enabled bool
false
vmcluster.ingress.insert.extraPaths list
[]
vmcluster.ingress.insert.hosts[0] string
vminsert.domain.com
vmcluster.ingress.insert.labels object
{}
vmcluster.ingress.insert.path string
'{{ dig "extraArgs" "http.pathPrefix" "/" .Values.vmcluster.spec.vminsert }}'
vmcluster.ingress.insert.pathType string
Prefix
vmcluster.ingress.insert.tls list
[]
vmcluster.ingress.select.annotations object
{}
vmcluster.ingress.select.enabled bool
false
vmcluster.ingress.select.extraPaths list
[]
vmcluster.ingress.select.hosts[0] string
vmselect.domain.com
vmcluster.ingress.select.labels object
{}
vmcluster.ingress.select.path string
'{{ dig "extraArgs" "http.pathPrefix" "/" .Values.vmcluster.spec.vmselect }}'
vmcluster.ingress.select.pathType string
Prefix
vmcluster.ingress.select.tls list
[]
vmcluster.ingress.storage.annotations object
{}
vmcluster.ingress.storage.enabled bool
false
vmcluster.ingress.storage.extraPaths list
[]
vmcluster.ingress.storage.hosts[0] string
vmstorage.domain.com
vmcluster.ingress.storage.labels object
{}
vmcluster.ingress.storage.path string
""
vmcluster.ingress.storage.pathType string
Prefix
vmcluster.ingress.storage.tls list
[]
vmcluster.spec object
replicationFactor: 2
retentionPeriod: "1"
vminsert:
    extraArgs: {}
    image:
        tag: v1.103.0-cluster
    port: "8480"
    replicaCount: 2
    resources: {}
vmselect:
    cacheMountPath: /select-cache
    extraArgs: {}
    image:
        tag: v1.103.0-cluster
    port: "8481"
    replicaCount: 2
    resources: {}
    storage:
        volumeClaimTemplate:
            spec:
                resources:
                    requests:
                        storage: 2Gi
vmstorage:
    image:
        tag: v1.103.0-cluster
    replicaCount: 2
    resources: {}
    storage:
        volumeClaimTemplate:
            spec:
                resources:
                    requests:
                        storage: 10Gi
    storageDataPath: /vm-data

full spec for VMCluster CRD. Allowed values described here

vmcluster.spec.retentionPeriod string
"1"

Data retention period. Possible units character: h(ours), d(ays), w(eeks), y(ears), if no unit character specified - month. The minimum retention period is 24h. See these docs

vmsingle.annotations object
{}
vmsingle.enabled bool
true
vmsingle.ingress.annotations object
{}
vmsingle.ingress.enabled bool
false
vmsingle.ingress.extraPaths list
[]
vmsingle.ingress.hosts[0] string
vmsingle.domain.com
vmsingle.ingress.labels object
{}
vmsingle.ingress.path string
""
vmsingle.ingress.pathType string
Prefix
vmsingle.ingress.tls list
[]
vmsingle.spec object
extraArgs: {}
image:
    tag: v1.103.0
port: "8429"
replicaCount: 1
retentionPeriod: "1"
storage:
    accessModes:
        - ReadWriteOnce
    resources:
        requests:
            storage: 20Gi

full spec for VMSingle CRD. Allowed values describe here

vmsingle.spec.retentionPeriod string
"1"

Data retention period. Possible units character: h(ours), d(ays), w(eeks), y(ears), if no unit character specified - month. The minimum retention period is 24h. See these docs