Multi-cluster observability with Red Hat ACM

Multicluster observability is an ACM feature that is intended to be a central hub for metrics, alerting, and monitoring systems for all clusters, whether hub clusters or managed clusters.

As this tool handles a large amount of data, it is recommended to provide fast disks as its storage backend. Red Hat has tested and fully supports the solution if adopted in conjunction with Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation.

Although Red Hat recommends doing so, the prerequisite is a storage solution that provides object/S3-type storage, such as those commonly found in most cloud providers (such as Amazon S3).

Prerequisites

Since observability is a feature of an ACM operator, there aren’t many prerequisites. The following are the requirements:

• Enable the observability feature on a connected Red Hat OpenShift cluster.
• Configure an object store from a storage provider. Some of the supported object storage types are as follows...