Chapter 6. Reviewing monitoring dashboards
OpenShift Container Platform 4.8 provides a comprehensive set of monitoring dashboards that help you understand the state of cluster components and user-defined workloads.
In the Administrator perspective you can access dashboards for core OpenShift Container Platform components, including:
- API performance
- etcd
- Kubernetes compute resources
- Kubernetes network resources
- Prometheus
- USE method dashboards relating to cluster and node performance
Figure 6.1. Example dashboard in the Administrator perspective
![monitoring dashboard administrator](https://access.redhat.com/webassets/avalon/d/OpenShift_Container_Platform-4.8-Monitoring-en-US/images/07eb12a8940f9b9d8816198f840d6e76/monitoring-dashboard-administrator.png)
In the Developer perspective you can access dashboards that provide the following statistics for a selected project:
- CPU usage
- Memory usage
- Bandwidth information
- Packet rate information
Figure 6.2. Example dashboard in the Developer perspective
![monitoring dashboard developer](https://access.redhat.com/webassets/avalon/d/OpenShift_Container_Platform-4.8-Monitoring-en-US/images/71cdc15ac6aa9dd1b55e84461bc60dc2/monitoring-dashboard-developer.png)
In the Developer perspective, you can view dashboards for only one project at a time.
6.1. Reviewing monitoring dashboards as a cluster administrator
In the Administrator perspective, you can view dashboards relating to core OpenShift Container Platform cluster components.
Prerequisites
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You have access to the cluster as a user with the
cluster-admin
role.
Procedure
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In the Administrator perspective in the OpenShift Container Platform web console, navigate to Monitoring
Dashboards. - Choose a dashboard in the Dashboard list. Some dashboards, such as etcd and Prometheus dashboards, produce additional sub-menus when selected.
Optional: Select a time range for the graphs in the Time Range list.
- Select a pre-defined time period.
Set a custom time range by selecting Custom time range in the Time Range list.
- Input or select the From and To dates and times.
- Click Save to save the custom time range.
- Optional: Select a Refresh Interval.
- Hover over each of the graphs within a dashboard to display detailed information about specific items.
6.2. Reviewing monitoring dashboards as a developer
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
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In the Developer perspective in the OpenShift Container Platform web console, navigate to Monitoring
Dashboard. - Choose a project in the Project: list.
- Choose a workload in the All Workloads list.
Optional: Select a time range for the graphs in the Time Range list.
- Select a pre-defined time period.
Set a custom time range by selecting Custom time range in the Time Range list.
- Input or select the From and To dates and times.
- Click Save to save the custom time range.
- Optional: Select a Refresh Interval.
- Hover over each of the graphs within a dashboard to display detailed information about specific items.
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