# Metricbeats can't recognize kubernetes dns
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeats-cant-recognize-kubernetes-dns/295389
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** docker, metricbeat
**Created:** [January 25, 2022, 7:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeats-cant-recognize-kubernetes-dns/295389 "2022-01-25T19:09:09Z")
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### Author:  [@Sebastian\_Randoll\_Le](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sebastian_Randoll_Le)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2022, 7:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeats-cant-recognize-kubernetes-dns/295389/1 "2022-01-25T19:09:09Z")
Hello
I'm using ECK 1.19 and I'm implementing monitoring with beat use the following:
```auto
---
apiVersion: beat.k8s.elastic.co/v1beta1
kind: Beat
metadata:
name: metricbeat
spec:
type: metricbeat
version: 7.16.2
elasticsearchRef:
name: ha-elastic
kibanaRef:
name: kibana
config:
http.enabled: true
http.port: 5066
http.host: 0.0.0.0
monitoring.enabled: false
metricbeat:
autodiscover:
providers:
- hints:
default_config: {}
enabled: "true"
host: ${HOSTNAME}
type: kubernetes
modules:
- module: system
period: 10s
metricsets:
- cpu
- load
- memory
- network
- process
- process_summary
process:
include_top_n:
by_cpu: 5
by_memory: 5
processes:
- .*
- module: system
period: 1m
metricsets:
- filesystem
- fsstat
processors:
- drop_event:
when:
regexp:
system:
filesystem:
mount_point: ^/(sys|cgroup|proc|dev|etc|host|lib)($|/)
- module: kubernetes
period: 10s
enabled: true
labels.dedot: true
add_metadata: true
host: ${HOSTNAME}
hosts:
- https://kube:10250
bearer_token_file: /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token
ssl:
verification_mode: none
metricsets:
- node
- system
- pod
- volume
- event
- container
processors:
- add_cloud_metadata: {}
- add_host_metadata: {}
daemonSet:
podTemplate:
metadata:
labels:
stack-monitoring.elastic.co/type: beat
annotations:
co.elastic.logs/enabled: "true"
spec:
serviceAccountName: metricbeat
automountServiceAccountToken: true # some older Beat versions are depending on this settings presence in k8s context
containers:
- args:
- -e
- -c
- /etc/beat.yml
- -system.hostfs=/hostfs
ports:
- containerPort: 5066
name: monitoring
protocol: TCP
name: metricbeat
volumeMounts:
- mountPath: /hostfs/sys/fs/cgroup
name: cgroup
- mountPath: /var/run/docker.sock
name: dockersock
- mountPath: /hostfs/proc
name: proc
securityContext:
runAsUser: 0
terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 30
volumes:
- hostPath:
path: /sys/fs/cgroup
name: cgroup
- hostPath:
path: /var/run/docker.sock
name: dockersock
- hostPath:
path: /proc
name: proc
---
# permissions needed for metricbeat
# source: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-module-kubernetes.html
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRole
metadata:
name: metricbeat
rules:
- apiGroups:
- ""
resources:
- nodes
- nodes/stats
- namespaces
- events
- pods
verbs:
- get
- list
- watch
- apiGroups:
- "extensions"
resources:
- replicasets
verbs:
- get
- list
- watch
- apiGroups:
- apps
resources:
- statefulsets
- deployments
- replicasets
verbs:
- get
- list
- watch
- apiGroups:
- ""
resources:
- nodes/stats
verbs:
- get
- list
- watch
- nonResourceURLs:
- /metrics
verbs:
- get
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
name: metricbeat
namespace: default
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata:
name: metricbeat
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
name: metricbeat
namespace: default
roleRef:
kind: ClusterRole
name: metricbeat
apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
```
Reviewing the logs of the metricbeat pod I found the following:
```auto
2022-01-25T19:07:48.255Z WARN [transport] transport/tcp.go:52 DNS lookup failure "kube": lookup kube on 10.24.23.10:53: no such host
2022-01-25T19:07:48.316Z ERROR module/wrapper.go:259 Error fetching data for metricset kubernetes.system: error doing HTTP request to fetch 'system' Metricset data: error making http request: Get "https://kube:10250/stats/summary": lookup kube on 10.24.23.10:53: no such host
2022-01-25T19:07:48.516Z ERROR [kubernetes.container] container/container.go:93 error making http request: Get "https://kube:10250/stats/summary": lookup kube on 10.24.23.10:53: no such host
2022-01-25T19:07:49.448Z ERROR [kubernetes.pod] pod/pod.go:94 error making http request: Get "https://kube:10250/stats/summary": lookup kube on 10.24.23.10:53: no such host
2022-01-25T19:07:51.368Z ERROR module/wrapper.go:259 Error fetching data for metricset kubernetes.volume: error doing HTTP request to fetch 'volume' Metricset data: error making http request: Get "https://kube:10250/stats/summary": lookup kube on 10.24.23.10:53: no such host
2022-01-25T19:07:51.794Z ERROR [kubernetes.node] node/node.go:95 error making http request: Get "https://kube:10250/stats/summary": lookup kube on 10.24.23.10:53: no such host
2022-01-25T19:07:57.819Z ERROR module/wrapper.go:259 Error fetching data for metricset kubernetes.system: error doing HTTP request to fetch 'system' Metricset data: error making http request: Get "https://kube:10250/stats/summary": lookup kube on 10.24.23.10:53: no such host
2022-01-25T19:07:58.755Z WARN [transport] transport/tcp.go:52 DNS lookup failure "kube": lookup kube on 10.24.23.10:53: no such host
2022-01-25T19:07:58.755Z ERROR [kubernetes.container] container/container.go:93 error making http request: Get "https://kube:10250/stats/summary": lookup kube on 10.24.23.10:53: no such host
2022-01-25T19:07:59.448Z ERROR [kubernetes.pod] pod/pod.go:94 error making http request: Get "https://kube:10250/stats/summary": lookup kube on 10.24.23.10:53: no such host
2022-01-25T19:08:01.368Z ERROR module/wrapper.go:259 Error fetching data for metricset kubernetes.volume: error doing HTTP request to fetch 'volume' Metricset data: error making http request: Get "https://kube:10250/stats/summary": lookup kube on 10.24.23.10:53: no such host
2022-01-25T19:08:01.793Z ERROR [kubernetes.node] node/node.go:95 error making http request: Get "https://kube:10250/stats/summary": lookup kube on 10.24.23.10:53: no such host
```
Follow the steps in this post.
> **[Elastic Stack Monitoring with Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes](https://www.elastic.co/es/blog/elastic-stack-monitoring-with-elastic-cloud-on-kubernetes)**
>
> In this blog post, we'll explore how the official Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes operator can be used to easily deploy and manage Elastic Stack Monitoring using the new Beat CRD.
That could be happening?
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### Author:  [@mtojek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mtojek)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2022, 2:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeats-cant-recognize-kubernetes-dns/295389/2 "2022-01-26T14:38:19Z")
Hi,
did you jump inside the pod to check if the domain is unavailable? Maybe you should use a different one?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2022, 4:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeats-cant-recognize-kubernetes-dns/295389/3 "2022-02-23T16:38:33Z")
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