[Tracking] Falco Prometheus Support for Falco Metrics

[incertum]

This issue is to track Falco's progress in regards to supporting a Prometheus Exporter for Falco's newer Metrics system https://falco.org/docs/metrics/falco-metrics/.

Important: The Falco maintainers have decided to deprecate https://github.com/falcosecurity/falco-exporter. Please note that the falco-exporter never exported any of the newer internal metrics that we need for the CNCF benchmarking.

CC @AntonioDiTuri @nikimanoledaki @leogr

[incertum]

Current status: The first PR is up to create a more coherent metrics interface that also features convenient light weight Prometheus exporter helper methods falcosecurity/libs#1652. Once the maintainers have agreed on a solution, more PRs against the https://github.com/falcosecurity/falco repo will be needed.

We are targeting Falco 0.38.0.

[nikimanoledaki]

Wonderful, thank you for this update!

[incertum]

@nikimanoledaki FYI this timeline is not for KubeCon EU 24. Falco 0.38.0 is scheduled for end of May 2024. Thanks for your patience.

[poiana]

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[incertum]

We are on track for Falco 0.38.0.

[incertum]

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[incertum]

Latest Falco version 0.38.1 now has Prometheus support. We still need to develop the Grafana dashboards and update the deployment configs in this repo. Will post again once all this is done.

[leogr]

We still need to develop the Grafana dashboards and update the deployment configs in this repo

AFAIK @alacuku should take care of them :)

[alacuku]

First PR that supports Falco metrics in the charts has been merged: falcosecurity/charts#700

[paltaa]

Hey, quick question, there was no information in metrics-exporter chart or the kubernetes getting started tutorials that it was deprecated and took me a while to find this issue. Is there any working Grafana dashboard / alerts for this new metrics?

[leogr]

Hey, quick question, there was no information in metrics-exporter chart or the kubernetes getting started tutorials that it was deprecated and took me a while to find this issue. Is there any working Grafana dashboard / alerts for this new metrics?

We are still working on the Grafana Dashboard and documentation for these new metrics and trying to move them to the "stable" maturity level. Afterward, our previous metrics tools (like falco-exporter) will be deprecated.

[alacuku]

The grafana dashboard is now part of the Falco charts: falcosecurity/charts#760