⚠️ Repo Archive Notice

As of Nov 13, 2020, charts in this repo will no longer be updated. For more information, see the Helm Charts Deprecation and Archive Notice, and Update.

Retired

Heapster work has been stopped. All efforts have been moved to metrics-server. Metrics server helm chart is located at: https://github.com/helm/charts/tree/master/stable/metrics-server More info on: https://github.com/kubernetes-retired/heapster

Heapster

Heapster enables Container Cluster Monitoring and Performance Analysis. It collects and interprets various signals like compute resource usage, lifecycle events, etc, and exports cluster metrics via REST endpoints. The Chart can also enable eventer, which can send the kubernetes event logs to a remote location.

DEPRECATION NOTICE

This chart is deprecated and no longer supported.

QuickStart

bash

$ helm install stable/heapster

Installing the Chart

To install the chart with the release name my-release:

bash

$ helm install --name my-release stable/heapster

Uninstalling the Chart

To uninstall/delete the my-release deployment:

bash

$ helm delete my-release --purge

The command removes all the Kubernetes components associated with the chart and deletes the release.

Configuration

The default configuration values for this chart are listed in values.yaml.

Parameter	Description	Default
`image.repository`	Repository for container image	k8s.gcr.io/heapster-amd64
`image.tag`	Container image tag	v1.5.4
`image.pullPolicy`	Image pull policy	IfNotPresent
`service.name`	Service port name	api
`service.type`	Type for the service	ClusterIP
`service.externalPort`	Service external port	8082
`service.internalPort`	Service internal port	8082
`service.annotations`	Service annotations, specified as a map	`{}`
`resources.limits`	Server resource limits	limits: {cpu: 100m, memory: 128Mi}
`resources.requests`	Server resource requests	requests: {cpu: 100m, memory: 128Mi}
`command`	Commands for heapster pod	"/heapster --source=kubernetes.summary_api:''
`rbac.create`	Bind system:heapster role	true
`rbac.serviceAccountName`	existing ServiceAccount to use (ignored if rbac.create=true)	default
`resizer.enabled`	If enabled, scale resources	true
`eventer.enabled`	If enabled, start eventer	false
`podAnnotations`	Pod Annotations to be added to the heapster Pod	`{}`
`nodeSelector`	Node labels for pod assignment	`{}`
`tolerations`	Tolerations for pod assignment	`[]`
`affinity`	Affinity for pod assignment	`{}`

The table below is only applicable if resizer.enabled is true. More information on resizer can be found here.

Parameter	Description	Default
`resizer.image.repository`	Repository for container image	k8s.gcr.io/addon-resizer
`resizer.image.tag`	Container image tag	1.7
`resizer.image.pullPolicy`	Image pull policy	IfNotPresent
`resizer.resources.limits`	Server resource limits	limits: {cpu: 50m, memory: 90Mi}
`resizer.resources.requests`	Server resource requests	requests: {cpu: 50m, memory: 90Mi}
`resizer.flags`	Flags for pod nanny command	Defaults set in values.yaml

The table below is only applicable if eventer.enabled is true. More information on eventer can be found [here]https://github.com/kubernetes/heapster/blob/master/docs/overview.md

Parameter	Description	Default
`eventer.flags`	Flags for eventer command	Defaults set in values.yaml
`eventer.resources.limits`	Server resource limits	requests: {}
`eventer.resources.requests`	Server resource requests	requests: {}
`eventer.resizer.enabled`	If enabled, scale resources	true
`eventer.resizer.flags`	Flags for pod nanny command for eventer	Defaults set in values.yaml
`eventer.resizer.resources.limits`	Server resource limits	requests: {}
`eventer.resizer.resources.requests`	Server resource requests	requests: {}