Monitoring

You can use the Monitoring service to monitor the status of your cluster and applications with the cluster monitoring dashboard.

If you are using the Monitoring operator service as part of an IBM Cloud Pak®, see the documentation for that IBM Cloud Pak® to learn more about how to install and use the operator service. For more information about IBM Cloud Paks, see IBM Cloud Paks that use IBM Cloud Pak foundational services.

What's new for the Monitoring service

IBM Cloud Pak foundational services Prometheus as a data source of Grafana is removed from foundational services version 3.8.x and later. To remove resources that were not cleaned up, follow the instructions in Monitoring resources not cleaned up.

Important: Access to the third-party Grafana web user interface is deprecated in OpenShift Container Platform version 4.10 Opens in a new tab , and removed in OpenShift Container Platform version 4.11 . You can use the OpenShift Container Platform console to access the dashboards. For more information, see Monitoring overview .

Monitoring service version 1.12.x and newer

IBM Cloud Pak foundational services monitoring mode is removed. Monitoring version 1.12.x installs only Grafana and uses Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform monitoring to configure Prometheus as a Grafana datasource.

Monitoring service version 1.9.x and newer

Monitoring technology preview that was announced in version 3.5.x is moved to general availability. You now have the option to install only Grafana and use Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform monitoring to configure Prometheus as a Grafana datasource. For more information, see IBM Cloud Platform Monitoring service.
You can use the nodeSelector parameter to schedule monitoring service on specific nodes. For more information see, Monitoring (operator).

Monitoring service 1.9.0 and newer

(Technology preview) Using OpenShift Container Platform Monitoring

With the technology preview, only Grafana is installed and the Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform monitoring Prometheus is configured as the datasource for Grafana. For more information, see Using OpenShift Container Platform Monitoring.

Monitoring service v1.8.0 and newer

The service is now available as an operator-based service. The Monitoring service includes the following operators:

ibm-monitoring-exporters-operator
ibm-monitoring-prometheusext-operator
ibm-monitoring-grafana-operator

Monitoring service v1.7.0

The service is now available as a part of IBM Cloud Pak foundational services.

Available versions

How to check which service version you are using

You can check the installer version in the configmap by running the following command:

oc -n kube-public get ConfigMap ibmcloud-cluster-info -o jsonpath=’{.data.version}’

   3.6.0

You can check the Common service operator full version and deployed namespace by running the following command:

oc get csv --all-namespaces | grep common-service-

common-service        IBM Cloud Platform Common Services     3.6.3                   ibm-common-service-operator.v3.5.6             Succeeded
ibm-common-services  IBM Cloud Platform Common Services     3.6.3                   ibm-common-service-operator.v3.5.6             Succeeded

If there is no ibmcloud-cluster-info configmap in your cluster, it means that the service was installed by installer version 1.1.0 and the service is version 1.8.0 or newer. You can check the Installed Operators tab in the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform console to find the accurate version.