K8S Pods dashboard

As an administrator, use the K8S Pods dashboard to understand the following information:

  • The CPU, Memory, Ephemeral storage, and Volume profiles of a Kubernetes pod
  • Details of the events that are related to a Kubernetes pod
  • The number of times that a pod restarted in a specified interval
  • The current status of a pod. The status can be one of the following values:
    • Running
    • Succeeded
    • Odnding
    • Failed
    • Unknown

The following image shows the K8S Pods dashboard:

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To view the dashboard:

  1. In BMC Helix Dashboards from the navigation menu, click Dashboards.
  2. Click the Operations Management folder and click K8S Pods.

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Panels in the K8S Pods 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. 
  • Events_CPU_Utilization: Toggle this button to choose to view details about the event CPU utilization on each pod.

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

  • K8S Container
  • K8S Daemonset
  • K8S Deployment
  • K8S Node
pods_menu bar.png
The Status section
Restarts Top 10

The number of times that the top 10 containers in the pod restarted in the last polling interval.

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Ready

Displays whether the pod is ready based on the pod conditions returned by the Kubernetes API.

The following values are valid:

  • 0: OK
  • 1: Not OK
  • 2: Unknown
pods_ready.png
Status

The status of the pod.

The following values are valid:

  • 0: Running
  • 1: Succeeded
  • 2: Pending
  • 3: Failed
  • 4: Unknown
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The CPU Profile section
CPU Utilization Top 10

The CPU utilization of the top 10 pods in percentage.

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CPU Usage Core Seconds Top 10The CPU usage of top 10 pods in seconds. The CPU usage is calculated as the sum of all cores.pods_cpu_usage_core.png
CPU Average Usage Cores Top 10The average CPU usage of top 10 pods in cores. The average CPU is calculated as the average of the sum of all cores.pods_cpu_avg_usage_core.png
The Memory Profile section
Memory Utilization Top 10

The memory utilization of the top 10 pods in percentage.

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Memory Page Faults & Major Page Faults Top 10The number of the memory page faults and major page faults of the top 10 pods on the node.pods_mem_page_faults.png
Memory Usage Bytes, RSS Bytes Top 10The total memory in use in bytes and the amount of Resident Set Size (RSS) memory in MB of the top 10 pods in the node.pods_mem_usage_bytes.png
The Ephemeral Storage Profile section
Ephemeral Storage Utilization Top 10

The percentage of the file system space utilization of the top 10 pods on the node.

 

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Ephemeral Storage Used and Available Bytes Top 10The used and available storage space in the filesystem of the top 10 pods in MB.pods_ephe_storage_used.png
Ephemeral Storage Inodes Used & Free Top 10The number of used and free file system inodes of the top 10 pods on the node.pods_ephe_storage_inodes.png
The Network Profile section
Network Total Bytes Top 10

The total number of bytes that are received and transmitted over the network on the top 10 pods in MB.

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Network Transmitted & Received Bytes Top 10The number of bytes that are received and transmitted over the network on the top 10 pods in MB.pods_net_trans_rec_bytes.png
Network Transmitted & Received ErrorsThe number of errors that are received and transmitted on the top 10 pods over the network.pods_net_trans_rec_errors.png
The Volume Profile section
Volume Utilization Top 10

The storage space utilization of the top 10 pods on the node in percentage.

pods_vol_util.png
Volume Used Bytes and Available Bytes Top 10The number of used and available bytes in the storage space on the volumes of the top 10 pods in MB.pods_vol_used_bytes.png
Inodes Used & Free Top 10The number of used and free inodes on the volumes of the top 10 pods .pods_vol_inodes_used_free.png
The Events panel
Events

The number of open events related to the pod.

You can see details such as the time when the event occurred, its metric information, and the value that caused the threshold breach.

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