VMware, Inc.
MONITORING FOR WORKLOADS MANAGED BY A CONTAINER ORCHESTRATOR IN A VIRTUALIZED COMPUTING SYSTEM

Abstract:

An example method of application monitoring in a virtualized computing system including a host cluster of having a virtualization layer directly executing on hardware platforms of hosts, the virtualization layer supporting execution of virtual machines (VMs) and integrated with an orchestration control plane includes: receiving, at a pod VM controller, a health monitoring specification, the pod VM controller executing in the virtualization layer external to the VMs; providing, from the pod VM controller to a pod VM agent executing in a pod VM of the VMs, the health monitoring specification, the pod VM including a container engine supporting execution of containers therein; executing, in the pod VM by the pod VM agent, at least one probe of an application executing in one or more of the containers; and returning, from the pod VM agent to the pod VM controller, application health status obtained from the at least one probe.