I am analyzing azure kubernetes service data ingestion to the log analytics and cost optimization.

When i analyze the logs using queries i found that container inventory produces large data ingestion to log analytics which costs more.

When I analyzed about container inventory for AKS, kubernetes i couldn't find proper answer.

Can anyone explain what is container inventory? and how it generates so much of data ingestion in aks?how can i optimize container inventory data ingestion?

I analyzed more about this concept but i couldn't get proper explanation about it as i fresh to azure AKS and kubernetes. can anyone guide me on this?

Thank you!

CodePudding user response：

The ContainerIventory is an inventory of all the containers running in the cluster and their properties) such as state, ports, environment variables etc).

The inventory is collected periodically (once every minute). This means that all this data is collected every minute for every container.

To reduce data ingestion and cost, there are a few things you can do, which are described in the docs, for example disable the environment variable collection, which can be done by either disabling log collection globally in the oms agent config map:

[log_collection_settings.env_var]
    enabled = false

Or by disabling it per container by setting the environment variable AZMON_COLLECT_ENV to false