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Why am I seeing duplicate metrics or logs being sent from my clusters?

Why am I seeing duplicate metrics or logs being sent from my clusters?

You are seeing duplicate log entries for your clusters.

The most common cause for this issue is that you have multiple logging agents installed in your cluster.

Remove the unsupported observability plug-in resources from your cluster.

  1. Check for the unsupported agents.

    kubectl get daemonsets -n ibm-observe
    
  2. If there is a logdna-agent or a sysdig-agent, remove them.

    Example output that shows the resources which need to be removed.

    NAME           DESIRED   CURRENT   READY   UP-TO-DATE   AVAILABLE   NODE SELECTOR   AGE
    logdna-agent   9         9         9       9            9           <none>          4d
    sysdig-agent   9         9         9       9            9           <none>          4d
    
  3. Delete the resources.

    kubectl delete daemonset logdna-agent -n ibm-observe
    kubectl kubectl delete daemonset sysdig-agent -n ibm-observe
    
  4. Verify the daemonset and its pods were deleted.

    kubectl get daemonset logdna-agent -n ibm-observe
    kubectl get pods -l app=logdna-agent -n ibm-observe
    kubectl get daemonset sysdig-agent -n ibm-observe
    kubectl get pods -l app=sysdig-agent -n ibm-observe