K8S Container dashboard

As an administrator, use the K8S Container dashboard to view the overall health of Kubernetes containers in a cluster. You can use the dashboard to quickly identify the containers that might have issues with the CPU and memory utilization. You can view container details from the entire cluster, or from a specific namespace, deployment, or pod.

The following image shows the K8S Container dashboard:

k8s_container.png

To view the dashboard

  1. In BMC Helix Dashboards from the navigation menu, click Dashboards.
  2. Click the Operations Management folder and click K8S Container.
  3. From the K8 Clusters list, select a cluster to view its container details.
  4. To view the container details in more granularity, use the following fields:
    • Namespace: View container details of a namespace within a cluster.
    • Deployment: View container details of a deployment within a namespace.
    • Pod: View container details of a pod within a namespace.

Tip: To quickly open the dashboard from the home page, mark it as a favorite by using the star icon. Additionally, after you open a dashboard, it is available under Recently viewed dashboards on the home page. 

Panels in the K8S Container dashboard

PanelDescriptionExample
The top menu bar

The menu bar, where you can select the following options:

  • K8S Clusters
  • Namespace
  • Deployment
  • Pod
  • Top Number: Select a number to view details of the top 5, 10,  or 20 resources. The default is 10. 

Select one of the following links to view the corresponding dashboard:

  • K8S Daemonset
  • K8S Deployment
  • K8S Node
  • K8s Pods
container_menu bar.png
The CPU Profile section
CPU Utilization for Top 10The CPU utilization of the top 10 resources in the container.container_cpu_util.png
CPU Core Seconds for Top 10The sum of core CPU usage of the top 10 resources in a container in seconds.container_cpu_core_seconds.png
Average CPU Cores for Top 10The average of the sum of core CPU usage of the top 10 resources in a container.container_avg_cpu_core.png
The Memory Profile section
Memory Utilization Top 10The memory utilization of the container.container_mem_util.png
Page Faults/Major Page Faults Top 10Displays the total number of page faults and major page faults.container_page_faults.png
Memory Usage, RSS Memory Top 10Displays the total amount of RSS memory and the total amount of memory in use.container_mem_usage_rss.png

 

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