Chapter 1. Logging

Procedure

1. In the OpenShift Container Platform web console, go to the menu Observability Logging to view the Kibana dashboard.

2. Create an index pattern.

   1. To display all the indices, define the index pattern as *, and click Next step.
   2. Select @timestamp for Time Filter field name.
   3. Click Create index pattern.
3. In the navigation panel of the Kibana dashboard, click the Discover tab.

4. Create a filter to retrieve logs for Argo CD. The following steps create a filter that retrieves logs for all the pods in the openshift-gitops namespace:

   1. Click Add a filter +.
   2. Select the kubernetes.namespace_name field.
   3. Select the is operator.
   4. Select the openshift-gitops value.
   5. Click Save.
5. Optional: Add additional filters to narrow the search. For example, to retrieve logs for a particular pod, you can create another filter with kubernetes.pod_name as the field.
6. View the filtered Argo CD logs in the Kibana dashboard.