1.2. Observability in the console

See the following image of the Navigation from the Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes console, which is decsribed in more detail later in each section. See that the navigation represents major production function.

Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes console components:

To learn about Search, see Search in the console

From the Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes Welcome page, you get more information about the product and you can access header features, such as Search and Create resource. When you select Create resource, you can create a YAML file or JSON file for a deployment. Also from the Header, you can click the Help (?) icon to view the About page and the documentation. From the User menu, you can access the Configure Client page. Additionally, you can access the Visual Web Terminal from the header.

You can view the following information about your clusters on the Overview dashboard:

Many elements on the dashboard can be clicked to open a search for related resources. Click on a provider card to view information for clusters from a single provider. You can personalize your view of the Overview dashboard by clicking and dragging to reorganize the cards.

Create clusters or import existing clusters. Scale up or down and delete clusters as needed. For more information, see Managing your clusters with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes

Click New application to edit a .yaml file and create your application. Click Resources to view the information of each application. For more information about application resources, see Managing applications.

The Topology page uses information from Weave Scope probe to display Kubernetes objects within a cluster. You can view hub cluster resources. As you configure managed clusters, you see more clusters in the Topology view.

To reduce the graphics on the page, you can filter the view by Clusters, Namespaces, and Labels. You can also filter the design by selecting the icon that represents the Kubernetes objects.

Learn more about the tabs that are available from the Topology page:

Use the Governance and risk dashboard to create and manage policies and policy controllers. For more information, see Governance and risk.