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Install Contrail Analytics

Use this procedure to install Contail Analytics.

Contrail Analytics packages popular open source software such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Fluentd together with Contrail telemetry exporters to provide an industry-standard way for you to monitor and analyze your network and network infrastructure. Information collected includes logs, metrics, status' of various component, and flows.

When you install Contrail Analytics, all analytics components are preconfigured to work with each other.

Note:

We use Helm charts to install Contrail Analytics. Install Helm 3.0 or later on the host that you're using to install Contrail Analytics.
  1. Locate the Contrail Analytics package that you downloaded.
  2. Create a namespace for the Contrail Analytics pods.
  3. Create a secret based on your hub.juniper.net credentials. We'll call this secret juniper-hub-auth in this example.
  4. Populate the image-pull-secret-values.yaml file with references to the secret you just created.
    1. Extract the image-pull-secret-values.yaml file from the Contrail Analytics package.
    2. Replace all occurrences of _SECRET_NAME_ in that file with the name of the secret you created.
  5. Install the Contrail Analytics package, referencing the image-pull-secret-values.yaml file you just updated.

    where <ipAddress> is the optional externally-routable virtual IP address that you want to use to access the analytics components. You would use this IP address, for example, to access Grafana from your web browser. In the example networks shown in this document, this IP address would be an unused address in the 172.16.0.0/24 subnet. If you want to access this address from outside this subnet, then you may need to create a NAT rule to allow external browsers to reach this address.

  6. Verify that the analytics components are installed and running.
  7. To uninstall Contrail Analytics: