Robusta UI¶

The Robusta UI sink connects your Robusta installation to the Robusta SaaS platform, where you can investigate alerts with HolmesGPT, review timelines, and more.

For the full list of platform features, see home.robusta.dev.

Configuring the Robusta UI Sink¶

Tip

This guide is for users who have already installed Robusta on their cluster. If you haven't installed Robusta yet, we recommend starting by creating a free Robusta UI account ↗ instead.

Use the robusta CLI to generate a token:

 robusta integrations ui

Add a new sink to your Helm values (generated_values.yaml), under sinksConfig, with the token you generated:

sinksConfig:
- robusta_sink:
    name: robusta_ui_sink
    token: <your-token>
    ttl_hours: 4380

Perform a Helm Upgrade.

Handling Short-Lived Clusters in the UI¶

Note

This is a Robusta classic feature for Kubernetes monitoring and does not apply to HolmesGPT.

By default, inactive Robusta clusters will be kept in the UI for 6 months data retention. (4380 hours)

If you have many short-lived clusters, you can remove them from the UI automatically once they stop running. To do so, configure a shorter retention period by setting the ttl_hours in the Robusta UI sink settings:

sinksConfig:
- robusta_sink:
    name: robusta_ui_sink
    token: <your-token>
    # automatically clean up old clusters in the UI if they are disconnected 12+ hours
    ttl_hours: 12

Monitoring Specific Resources in Namespaces¶

Note

This is a Robusta classic feature for Kubernetes monitoring and does not apply to HolmesGPT.

By default, the Robusta UI sink discovers the standard resources in all namespaces using the standard discovery interval. However, we have a configuration to monitor custom namespaced resources, and an API is exposed via the Robusta Backend to see how many of each resource you have in a namespace.

To configure this, use the namespace_discovery_seconds and namespaceMonitoredResources settings in the Robusta UI sink:

sinksConfig:
- robusta_sink:
    name: robusta_ui_sink
    token: <your-token>
    # how often to re-scan for new namespaces (in seconds)
    namespace_discovery_seconds: 3600
    # what resource types to actively count per namespace
    namespaceMonitoredResources:
      - apiGroup: ""
        apiVersion: "v1"
        kind: "Services"
      - apiGroup: "apps"
        apiVersion: "v1"
        kind: "Deployments"
      - apiGroup: "apps.openshift.io"
        apiVersion: "v1"
        kind: "DeploymentConfig"
      - apiGroup: "batch"
        apiVersion: "v1"
        kind: "CronJob"
      - apiGroup: "networking.k8s.io"
        apiVersion: "v1"
        kind: "Ingress"

More Information about the UI¶

For more information on UI features, view robusta.dev.