Using the Cloud Pak Healthcheck service

The Cloud Pak Healthcheck service provides general health information about your cluster deployment.

Before you begin

You must have at least an operator role to use the Cloud Pak Healthcheck.

About this task

The Cloud Pak Healthcheck service provides the health status of your system. View the table for a description of the health status details that are provided with the service:

Table 1. Cloud Pak Healthcheck service
Status Output description
Your product cluster node
  • Provides cluster node health status details.
  • Provides failure details and pod events for any unhealthy nodes.
Kubernetes API server Provides Kubernetes API server and other management service health status details.
Unhealthy pods Provides failure details and pod events in the kube-system namespace.
Your product cluster management service
  • Provides the health status of all management services.
  • Provides the dependencies of each management service.

Procedure

  • Get the health status of your hub cluster by running this command:
    oc get clusterservicestatus
  • Get a description of any management service status. For example, run the following command to get a description of the ibm-cs-system-healthcheck-service-ibm-common-services service status:
    oc describe clusterservicestatus ibm-cs-system-healthcheck-service-ibm-common-services