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OpenShift 4.4: Getting insights into your application

April 30, 2020
Serena Chechile Nichols
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    The developer experience in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.4's web console now includes a metrics-based dashboard. With this dashboard, you can access insights into your application metrics instead of relying on external tools. This Tech Preview feature is available in the Developer perspective’s Monitoring section, providing access to the dashboard, metrics, and events. Monitoring information is also available on the resource side panel, accessible within the Topology and Workloads views.

    Monitoring Dashboard

    The Monitoring -> Dashboard page can be found under the Monitoring section of the Developer perspective, as shown in Figure 1. The dashboard features 10 metrics charts that display metrics for the project in context. The charts provide insight into various metrics including CPU Usage, Memory Usage, Receive Bandwidth, Transmit Bandwidth, Rate of Received Packets, Rate of Transmitted Packets, Rate of Received Packets Dropped and Rate of Transmitted Packets Dropped.

    Developer -> Monitoring -> Dashboard tab
    Figure 1: The Monitoring Dashboard.
    Figure 1: The Monitoring Dashboard.">

    Clicking on a chart allows you to gain more insight into the metrics, including a list of all pods and associated metrics values, as shown in Figure 2.

    Developer -> Monitoring -> Metrics tab
    Figure 2: The Monitoring Metrics.
    Figure 2: The Monitoring Metrics.">

    Monitoring Metrics

    The Metrics page is now available in the Monitoring section, as shown in Figure 3. This page includes five out-of-the-box queries while retaining the ability to perform custom queries.

    Developer -> Monitoring -> Metrics tab -> Select Query
    Figure 3: Out-of-the-box metrics queries.
    Figure 3: Out-of-the-box metrics queries.">

    Monitoring Events

    You can view events associated with your project on the Events page in the Monitoring section, as shown in Figure 4.

    Developer -> Monitoring -> Events tab
    Figure 4: Monitoring Events.
    Figure 4: Monitoring Events.">

    Monitoring with Topology

    A new Monitoring tab is available on the side panel of the Topology page. This tab displays associated events and metrics associated with the selected workload and is only displayed when a workload is selected. The Metrics section includes CPU Usage, Memory Usage, and Receive Bandwidth charts, and a link to view the monitoring dashboard with the selected resource in context, as shown in Figure 5.

    Developer -> Topology -> Monitoring tab
    Figure 5: Monitoring tab in the Topology side panel.
    Figure 5: Monitoring tab in the Topology side panel.">

    The Monitoring section is our first step in providing an application monitoring solution for the developer, allowing them to troubleshoot problems with their applications. We are already thinking about what’s coming in future releases like saving custom queries, additional out-of-the-box queries, adding alerts, and the addition of a notification drawer.

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    Last updated: June 29, 2020

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