Preparing the Environment

Speedscale collects detailed information about the service under test during replay. To achieve maximum fidelity, make sure every data source is enabled.

Metrics Server

The Kubernetes metrics server provides CPU and Memory usage through the replay. Speedscale will collect these metrics if they are available and collate them into the test report.

Check if it's already installed

Run the following command:

kubectl get pods --all-namespaces | grep metrics-server

If no results are found, install the metrics-server with the following command:

kubectl apply -f https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/metrics-server/releases/latest/download/components.yaml

The following output indicates a successful installation:

serviceaccount/metrics-server created
clusterrole.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/system:aggregated-metrics-reader created
clusterrole.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/system:metrics-server created
rolebinding.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/metrics-server-auth-reader created
clusterrolebinding.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/metrics-server:system:auth-delegator created
clusterrolebinding.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/system:metrics-server created
service/metrics-server created
deployment.apps/metrics-server created
apiservice.apiregistration.k8s.io/v1beta1.metrics.k8s.io created