Rancher observability and performance monitoring

Get full visibility into the Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE) and your Rancher containers and the applications and workloads that are running in them, as well the underlying physical or cloud infrastructure your Rancher landscape runs upon. From a central console, analysis metrics, events, logs and traces from across your container environment in real-time out-of-the-box with ready-to-go rich visualizations.

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The next-gen monitoring solution
for your Rancher ecosystem

eG Enterprise is an enterprise-class, AIOps-powered, converged application and IT monitoring solution that provides unified performance visibility into Rancher containers and the applications, services and databases running on them as well as infrastructure, cloud and other service dependencies.

eG Enterprise offers unparalleled Kubernetes observability, providing full-stack insights and troubleshooting capabilities without requiring modifications to your code, container images, or deployment processes. With eG Enterprise, you can effortlessly monitor Kubernetes cluster and workload metrics, events, and logs, alongside automated distributed transaction tracing for your applications and microservices. Its seamless end-to-end real-time monitoring, combined with AI-driven anomaly detection and root cause analysis, empowers you to navigate and thrive in your cloud-native, hybrid and on-prem environments with confidence.

Whether you are using Rancher for modern app development, complex microservices, hybrid and multi cloud, CI/CD, digital transformation, DevOps, or edge computing, eG Enterprise delivers the performance visibility needed to assure success of your IT initiatives.

From a central console, analysis metrics, events, logs and traces from across your container environment in real-time out-of-the-box with ready-to-go rich visualizations
Understand resource usage and capacity needs to futureproof container provisioning
Obtain code-level visibility of applications running inside Rancher containers – no code changes required. Detailed AIOps-automated root-cause diagnostics reveal even code level issues

AIOps technologies auto-baseline behaviors and proactively alert on anomalies, slowdowns and unusual user or application behavior
Ensure 24x7 availability and high performance of the Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE)
Automate monitoring in your auto-scaling Rancher environment. Metric thresholds and alerting are determined and configured out-of-the-box without manual effort
Ready-to-go live and historical reports that require no query languages
Available as a fully managed ready-to-go SaaS monitoring service. Self-managed on-prem or in cloud options are also available for those with compliance or regulatory needs

eG Enterprise for Rancher monitoring

eG Enterprise provides you with comprehensive Rancher monitoring of key components that determine application and Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE) performance including images, pods and containers.

Get proactive alerting out-of-the-box of potential performance bottlenecks, no need to manually configure alerts
Track which containers have been created and removed, and which are running, stopped and paused
Detect capacity issues and see where there are not enough hardware or cloud resources for your applications or Rancher containers
Use distributed transaction tracing to identify bottlenecks impacting the end-user experience
Leverage resource utilization trends and historical analytics help forecast future capacity requirements

eG Enterprise also monitors and correlates alerts from the Operating System, TCP, and Network layers that Rancher has dependencies upon.

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Features

Get alerted to bottlenecks in Rancher Container performance

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Know how long each container has been up and whether it has been restarted
Get details of containers being added and removed; track which containers are running, stopped and paused
Isolate containers that are large in size and ones that have not been started for a long time
Track container events in real time: create, delete, start, stop and die events
Monitor CPU, memory and disk utilization of every Rancher container and get alerted to high usage levels

Monitor if the Rancher service is installed and loaded and continuously track the service status

Detect capacity issues and resource constraints

As well as support for on-prem IT infrastructure, eG Enterprise provides out-of-the-box cloud monitoring support for applications and services running on the public cloud including AWS and Microsoft Azure.

Monitor the images mapped and not mapped to containers
Drill down to see which images are taking more disk space and how long ago they were created
Monitor the processes running on the Rancher Kubernetes Engine and their CPU and memory utilization
Get alerted if the data space usage exceeds threshold levels
Obtain granular visibility into resource availability and utilization: disk space, disk activity, I/O waits, memory, and more

Track how well data is transmitted and received from each container. Continually monitor the rate of errors that are transmitted through each container

Monitoring the performance and user experience of containerized applications

Get health, availability and performance metrics for applications running on the Rancher containers
Leverage distributed transaction tracing and identify slowness in application business transactions
Gain code-level visibility of web applications and debug errors before the application moves to production
Use a combination of synthetic simulation and real user monitoring to measure user experience of users accessing the applications

Monitoring the Kubernetes platform

In context of Rancher containers, eG Enterprise provides visibility of the container orchestration platform, Kubernetes (K8s).

Monitor the key services on the Kubernetes Master: API server, scheduler, controller manager, and etcd
Get detailed performance insight of Kubernetes nodes (etcd nodes, controlplane nodes, and worker nodes), pod allocation, CPU and memory allocation, image usage and deployment status
Understand resource usage patterns and determine how much additional workload can be deployed per node
Monitor jobs, pods, deployments and daemonsets by namespaces and get alerted to performance and capacity bottlenecks

Answer key performance questions

What is the load on Rancher containers? Which containers are consuming the most CPU or memory?
What performance thresholds should I set to avoid resource exhaustion?
How can I optimize container performance across multiple Rancher clusters?
Are there containers that are restarting frequently?
How can I track historical CPU and memory usage trends for my Rancher containers?

eG Enterprise natively supports 650+ infrastructure components, Cloud providers and applications. Which means that it provides out-of-the-box deep insights, thresholds, dashboards and reports for any of these 650+ components.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
about Rancher Monitoring

eG Enterprise enhances Rancher monitoring far beyond what Prometheus alone can offer by providing comprehensive, AI-powered observability across your entire environment. Here's how eG Enterprise stands out for Rancher monitoring:

Full-Stack Observability: eG Enterprise goes beyond collecting metrics to deliver complete visibility across Kubernetes clusters managed by Rancher, including nodes, pods, workloads, and applications.
Automated Distributed Tracing: Unlike Prometheus, eG Enterprise automatically traces transactions end-to-end across microservices, containers, and cloud environments, providing deep insights into application performance.
Log Management and Analysis: eG Enterprise captures, centralizes, and analyzes log data with advanced search and visualization capabilities, offering better context for troubleshooting than Prometheus’ limited log functionality.
AI-Driven Root Cause Analysis: eG Enterprise uses its powerful AIOps engine to detect anomalies, identify root causes, and correlate metrics, logs, and traces—delivering actionable insights and self-healing without manual effort.
Seamless Integration: While Prometheus focuses on metrics collection, eG Enterprise integrates metrics, events, and alerts from Prometheus and other tools, providing a unified view of your Rancher ecosystem.
Out-of-the-Box Dashboards and Alerts: eG Enterprise offers pre-configured dashboards tailored for application workloads, Kubernetes and Rancher, making it easy to get actionable insights quickly. Its alerting system is also more intelligent and reduces noise by focusing on the most critical issues.
Scalability and Automation: eG Enterprise scales effortlessly with Rancher-managed Kubernetes environments, leveraging AIOps-powered, domain-aware auto-discovery to adapt to changes in your infrastructure without manual configuration.
Simple and Easy to Use: eG Enterprise provides a single console for the whole organization to use. Suitable for exec overviews and for Help Desk operators to use to differentiate true Rancher issues from other root-causes and route support issues to the right team.

By combining its holistic monitoring capabilities with AI-powered insights, eG Enterprise enables teams to simplify operations, improve performance, and achieve faster problem resolution in Rancher-managed Kubernetes environments.

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Works on cloud environments, hybrid cloud setups and on-premises deployments
Deploy eG Enterprise using our SaaS platform or on-premises
Suitable for monitoring cloud applications, digital workspaces and IT infrastructures