gke autopilot not collecting metrics for datadog

Question

I'm using Datadog helm chart. I've got the exact same installation in two different clusters, both clusters have the exact same configuration.

In one of them I'm collecting custom metrics, plus cluster metrics.

In the other one I'm attempting collection of custom metrics, plus cluster metrics, but cluster metrics are not being collected.... I don't understand why, and I don't even know where to start diagnosing it.

Answer 1

GKE autopilot does not collect logs for datadog, datadog itself collects, monitors and pushes to datadog.

Not sure how you installed with helm as it was not share but there is something called providers with datadog.

Provider : providers.gke.autopilot

helm install <RELEASE_NAME> \
    --set datadog.apiKey=<DATADOG_API_KEY> \
    --set datadog.appKey=<DATADOG_APP_KEY> \
    --set clusterAgent.enabled=true \
    --set clusterAgent.metricsProvider.enabled=true \
    --set providers.gke.autopilot=true \
    --set datadog.logs.enabled=true 
    datadog/datadog

There could be other things to check: is Agent running, is Daemonset running?. Autopilot mostly sets(round off) the resources if anything wrong.