Operate overview

This page introduces the Operate section, which covers the day-to-day running of a live KX Sensors deployment: operations, maintenance consoles, logging, monitoring, and alerts.

Once KX Sensors is deployed, this section is your reference for keeping it healthy — starting and stopping services, using the maintenance consoles, reading logs, monitoring performance, and setting up watches and alerts.

Each section below lists its main pages. To see every page in a section, use the navigation.

Operations

Control a running deployment.

• About kxsctl — the command-line interface for administration
• Operator-initiated actions — manual failover and failback
• Start and stop the system
• Start and stop nodes individually

Maintenance consoles

Interactive administration tools.

• Using the maintenance console
• Launch the HA maintenance console

Logging

Find and interpret log output.

• About log facilities
• Application logs
• Look up log files
• Set up log levels in logLevels.yaml

Monitoring

Track performance and health.

• Overview of performance monitoring
• Access performance monitoring data
• Profile and debug code
• Look up the status of feeds and nodes

Alerts

Watch for conditions and get notified.

• Overview of watches and alerts
• Set up a watch
• Set up an alert
• Set up volume/hardware monitoring

Where to next

• Architecture — understand the system you are operating
• Develop — customize schemas, APIs, and ingestion
• Configure and Deploy — configure, tune, and deploy for your environment