Part 5: Visibility & Monitoring

What Will You Do

In this part, you will explore the integrated visibility and monitoring capabilities of the platform. Specifically, you will explore the dashboards that provide you access to both critical summary and trends.

• You will start with a "bird's eye view" and contextually click in one level at a time, going deeper and deeper.
• Critical metrics are automatically scraped and aggregated at the controller in a centralized time series database (TSDB)
• Interactive, real time access to this data is provided

Org Dashboard

• Click on Home -> Dashboards to view all clusters, projects, user activity, resource utilization and events in the Project.

You should see something like the example below.

Project Dashboard

• Select a Project and Click Go To Project to view all clusters, projects, user activity, application, workloads and events across the entire Project. You should see something like the example below.

Cluster Dashboard

In your project, click on Infrastructure -> Clusters

You should see something like the example below providing an overview of critical, operational metrics for your cluster.

Node Dashboard

In the cluster dashboard, click on Nodes. This will provide you an overview of all the nodes in the cluster. You should see something like the example below.

• Click on Overview for one of your nodes

This will provide you with a dashboard for the node.

k8s Resources

Click on the Resources tab. This will provide you access to an "integrated Kubernetes dashboard" where you can view the k8s resources organized by type, by namespace etc.

Pod Dashboard

By default, the k8s dashboard will list the pods in the "kube-system" namespace. Click on the "cert-manager" pod to view the Pod dashboard. You should see something like the example below.

Container Dashboard

Click on "Configuration" for the pod in the pod dashboard

Now, click on the container in the configuration to go to the "container dashboard". You should see something like the example below.

Recap

Congratulations! At this point, you have successfully accessed the integrated dashboards for visibility and monitoring.