Kube-state-metrics: "Evicted" pods don't register metrics

[yfried]

What happened:
I have many pods with Evicted state:

kubectl get pod -A  | grep Evicted | wc -l
     117

But no metric with reason=Evicted. The following query returns empty for the last week

{job="kube-state-metrics", reason="Evicted"} == 1

What you expected to happen:
I expected the above query to return with metrics of the evicted pods.
How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible):
Check that evicted nodes exist and then query prometheus as mentioned above

Environment:

• kube-state-metrics version: 1.9.7
• Kubernetes version (use kubectl version): 1.18
• Cloud provider or hardware configuration: EKS on AWS

[brancz]

Which metric did you expect to be there but wasn't?

[yfried]

Which metric did you expect to be there but wasn't?

@brancz All {job="kube-state-metrics", reason="Evicted"} metrics are 0 even though there are eviction events

[csturgess93]

Hi, I can confirm we are also experiencing the same issue with kube_pod_container_status_terminated_reason. We have evicted pods in our cluster, but the query won't gather the metric. It works fine with reason="Completed" etc, but reason="Evicted" unfortunately does not work.

[shabbir-taulia]

Can confirm this is happening in our cluster right now too

➜ (⎈ gke:test) tmp  ✗ k get po | grep -i evicted | wc -l
     996

But the metrics never show a value of 1 as far as we can look. Our current workaround is to use

kube_pod_status_phase{namespace="test",phase="Failed"}

[m1o1]

Same, but we are using kube_pod_container_status_last_terminated_reason (kubernetes/kube-state-metrics#344), though since evicted pods seem to stick around and a new one is created, either one should work I guess.

We have some alerts, and reason="OOMKilled" works fine, but reason="Evicted" does not.

[CarpathianUA]

Expiriencing the same!

[strangeman]

We expiriencing the same problem

[ritheshgm]

+1

[qingguee]

+1 Looks like we also met this issue.

[yfried]

Hi @brancz
Looks like this is effecting many users.
Did you get a chance to look into this?

[saltbo]

any progress on this issue?

[sedflix]

+1

[cnelson]

Same issue with reason="Shutdown" which went beta in v1.21

Looking at a pod on the cluster I see:

status:
  message: Node is shutting, evicting pods
  phase: Failed
  reason: Shutdown

and I see the pods in these metrics:

kube_pod_status_phase{phase="Failed"}

but I do not see these pods when looking at terminated metrics like

kube_pod_container_status_terminated_reason{reason="Shutdown"}

[slashpai]

I tried max_over_time, avg_over_time and sum_over_time for kube_pod_container_status_last_terminated_reason all queries returned 0 even if reason="Evicted exists. So this value never seems to be incremented

Example query
max_over_time(kube_pod_container_status_last_terminated_reason{reason="Evicted"}[2h])

I will try to figure out why Evicted reason is not registered in metric like other reasons

[fpetkovski]

@yfried This is a bug with the version you are running where KSM conflates pod and container states. This should be fixed in versions 2.0.0 and later. The metric containing this information is kube_pod_status_reason

Since 1.x.x has other issues according to the compatibility matrix, are you able to upgrade KSM to one of the 2.x.x versions?

Also keep in mind that only pods can have the Evicted reason in their status. Metrics about pod _containers_ will likely not reflect this information.

[saltbo]

Note: The v2.0.0-alpha.2+ and master releases of kube-state-metrics work on Kubernetes v1.17 and v1.18 excluding Ingress or CertificateSigningRequest resource metrics. If you require those metrics and are on an older Kubernetes version, use v2.0.0-alpha.1 or v1.9.8 kube-state-metrics release.

Does v1.9.8 fix this problem? And can v1.9.8 be used on k8s v1.16?

[fpetkovski]

Unfortunately v1.9.8 does not fix this problem, it's only fixed in 2.0.0 and onward. Are you running Kubernetes 1.16?

[saltbo]

Yeah, we running v1.16, and no plan to update k8s version currently...

[fpetkovski]

This is the commit which adds the kube_pod_status_reason metric that you are looking for: https://github.com/kubernetes/kube-state-metrics/commit/8f45cd8444ab206fe07f5af95095cd9015a1abd3#diff-9f1d27fdf1cb96ba2fc5bde3d90760eec19e66ee632a5756bf8da5ec28b54ab6.

We can try to backport parts of it to v1.9.8 but I am not sure what the current support policy is for pre 2.0.0 versions. Maybe @tariq1890 or @mrueg could provide their input before we raise the PR.

[mrueg]

My personal thoughts here: I would still consider v1.9.x "community supported", which means no active feature development, backports etc.
Backports for bug fixes can be contributed through the community and releases happen upon request.

[marcusio888]

good night I could do it with the following metric
sum by (namespace) (kube_pod_status_reason {reason = "Evicted"})> 0
version 2.0.0 kube-state-metrics
I hope it helps you. Additionally I leave the alertmanager rule if they want to use it

• name: pods-evicted
  rules:
  
  
  
  • alert: PodsEvicted
    
    annotations:
    
    description: Pods with evicted status detected.
    
    summary: Pods with evicted status detected.
    
    expr: |
    
    sum by (namespace) (kube_pod_status_reason{reason="Evicted"}) > 0
    
    for: 15m
    
    labels:
    
    severity: warning
  
  

[leepatrick-goop]

+1