Foglight for Container Management 1.2 - User Guide

Foglight Management Server Requirements

The minimum system requirements of the Foglight Management Server vary from the scale of clusters. The scale of clusters is determined by running containers.

If you are using an embedded Agent Manager, make sure to use the sum resources of both Foglight and Agent Manager.

Kubernetes Agent Requirements

Kubernetes Agent collects inventory and metrics every 5 minutes by default. Refer to Configuring data collection interval for details about how to change the collection interval.

Table 2 is the recommendations for local Kubernetes clusters. If you deploy Kubernetes clusters on the Cloud Provider Kubernetes Service, consider your network rate and change your configurations based on different Cloud Provider and different region/zone of your cluster.

Docker Swarm Agent Requirements

Docker Swarm Agent collects inventory and metrics every 5 minutes by default. Refer to Configuring data collection interval for details about how to change the collection interval.

Table 3 is the recommendations for local Docker Swarm clusters. For cloud environment, consider network rate and change configurations based on different Cloud Provider and different region/zone.

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