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.
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
- Start and stop service class instances
- Query-only node
Maintenance consoles¶
Interactive administration tools.
Logging¶
Find and interpret log output.
- About log facilities
- Application logs
- Recovery log RLOG files
- Look up log files
- Set up log levels in logLevels.yaml
- Understand log entries and correlators
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
- Check database consistency
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
- Look up monitoring tables on the dashboard
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