jaypipes / k8s-event-exporter

This tool is used to export Kubernetes events to CloudWatch logs

Event Exporter

This tool is used to export Kubernetes events. It effectively runs a watch on the apiserver, detecting as granular as possible all changes to the event objects. Event exporter exports only to CloudWatch Logs.

Build

To build the binary, run

make build

To run unit tests, run

make test

To build the container, run

make container

Run

Event exporter require following environment variables:

CW_LOG_GROUP_NAME string
CW_LOG_STREAM_NAME string 
AWS_REGION string

Deploy

export REGION="us-west-2"
cat https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nithu0115/event-exporter/master/yaml/event-exporter.yaml | sed -e "s/REGION/$REGION/g" |kubectl apply -f -

Notes

ClusterRoleBinding

This pod's service account should be authorized to get events, you might need to set up ClusterRoleBinding in order to make it possible. Complete example with the service account and the cluster role binding you can find in the yaml directory.

"resourceVersion for the provided watch is too old"

On a system with few/no events, you may see "The resourceVersion for the provided watch is too old" warnings. These can be ignored. This is due to compacted resource versions being referenced.