Monitoring and alerting with OpenShift Container Platform

Explore available dashboards in the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform console under Observe > Dashboards. These dashboards offer visibility on core platform components and can provide valuable insights into the health and performance of your Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform cluster.

• Use the Administrator perspective to access the monitoring dashboards to monitor the following components:

  • API performance
  • etcd
  • Kubernetes compute resources
  • Kubernetes network resources
  • Prometheus
  • Cluster and node performance (USE method dashboards)

• Use the Developer perspective to access Kubernetes compute resources dashboards to view application metrics for monitoring the following status:

  • CPU usage
  • Memory usage
  • Bandwidth information
  • Packet rate information

For more information about Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Monitoring and the monitoring dashboards, see:

• About Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform monitoring.
• Reviewing monitoring dashboards

Configure and use the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform alerting capabilities to monitor your cluster and identify potential problems. With the web console Alerting UI you can manage alerts, silences, and alerting rules to monitor the health of your cluster. This UI can be found under Observe > Alerting.

• Pre-defined health alerts : IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps defines custom health alerts to improve system resiliancy and stability. Learn about these alerts to understand existing coverage.

• Custom alerts : Learn how to customize and create alerts tailored to your business's use cases.