Chapter 7. Accessing third-party UIs
Integrated Metrics, Alerting, and Dashboard UIs are provided in the OpenShift Container Platform web console. See the following for details on using these integrated UIs:
OpenShift Container Platform also provides access to the Prometheus, Alertmanager, and Grafana third-party interfaces.
Default access to the third-party monitoring interfaces might be removed in future OpenShift Container Platform releases. Following this, you will need to use port-forwarding to access them.
The Grafana instance that is provided with the OpenShift Container Platform monitoring stack, along with its dashboards, is read-only.
The Grafana dashboard includes Kubernetes and cluster-monitoring metrics only. Additional platform components are included in Monitoring
7.1. Accessing third-party monitoring UIs by using the web console
You can access the Alertmanager, Grafana, Prometheus, and Thanos Querier web UIs through the OpenShift Container Platform web console.
Prerequisites
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You have access to the cluster as a user with the
cluster-adminrole.
Procedure
In the Administrator perspective, navigate to Networking
Routes. NoteAccess to the third-party Alertmanager, Grafana, Prometheus, and Thanos Querier UIs is not available from the Developer perspective. Instead, use the Metrics UI link in the Developer perspective, which includes some predefined CPU, memory, bandwidth, and network packet queries for the selected project.
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Select the
openshift-monitoringproject in the Project list. Access a third-party monitoring UI:
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Select the URL in the
alertmanager-mainrow to open the login page for the Alertmanager UI. -
Select the URL in the
grafanarow to open the login page for the Grafana UI. -
Select the URL in the
prometheus-k8srow to open the login page for the Prometheus UI. -
Select the URL in the
thanos-querierrow to open the login page for the Thanos Querier UI.
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Select the URL in the
- Choose Log in with OpenShift to log in using your OpenShift Container Platform credentials.
7.2. Accessing third-party monitoring UIs by using the CLI
You can obtain URLs for the Prometheus, Alertmanager, and Grafana web UIs by using the OpenShift CLI (oc) tool.
Prerequisites
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You have access to the cluster as a user with the
cluster-adminrole. -
You have installed the OpenShift CLI (
oc).
Procedure
Run the following to list routes for the
openshift-monitoringproject:$ oc -n openshift-monitoring get routes
Example output
NAME HOST/PORT ... alertmanager-main alertmanager-main-openshift-monitoring.apps._url_.openshift.com ... grafana grafana-openshift-monitoring.apps._url_.openshift.com ... prometheus-k8s prometheus-k8s-openshift-monitoring.apps._url_.openshift.com ... thanos-querier thanos-querier-openshift-monitoring.apps._url_.openshift.com ...
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Navigate to a
HOST/PORTroute by using a web browser. - Select Log in with OpenShift to log in using your OpenShift credentials.
The monitoring routes are managed by the Cluster Monitoring Operator and they cannot be modified by the user.
