Reviewing monitoring dashboards

In the Administrator perspective you can access dashboards for core OKD components, including:

• API performance

• etcd

• Kubernetes compute resources

• Kubernetes network resources

• Prometheus

Figure 1. Example dashboard in the Administrator perspective

In the Developer perspective you can access dashboards that provide the following statistics for a selected project:

• CPU usage

• Bandwidth information

• Packet rate information

Figure 2. Example dashboard in the Developer perspective

In the Administrator perspective, you can view dashboards relating to core OKD cluster components.

Prerequisites

• You have access to the cluster as a user with the role.

Procedure

1. In the Administrator perspective in the OKD web console, navigate to Monitoring → Dashboards.

2. Choose a dashboard in the Dashboard list. Some dashboards, such as etcd and Prometheus dashboards, produce additional sub-menus when selected.

3. Optional: Select a time range for the graphs in the Time Range list.

4. Hover over each of the graphs within a dashboard to display detailed information about specific items.

In the Developer perspective, you can view dashboards relating to a selected project. You must have access to monitor a project to view dashboard information for it.

Prerequisites

• You have access to the cluster as a developer or as a user with view permissions for the project that you are viewing the dashboard for.

Procedure

1. In the Developer perspective in the OKD web console, navigate to Monitoring → Dashboard.

2. Choose a project in the Project: list.

3. Choose a workload in the All Workloads list.

4. Optional: Select a time range for the graphs in the Time Range list.

5. Optional: Select a Refresh Interval.

6. Hover over each of the graphs within a dashboard to display detailed information about specific items.

Additional resources

• Accessing third-party UIs