Monitoring the health of containers in an on-premises environment

Use the Container Performance Metrics dashboard to monitor the CPU, memory, and storage consumption by the Docker and Podman containers running in a BMC Helix Intelligent Integrations on-premises deployment. The dashboard also displays the network input and output of the containers.

The dashboard displays the health of the following containers:

  • swp-arangodb
  • swp-backup
  • swp-broker
  • swp-fluentd (not applicable for Podman deployments)
  • swp-kafka-exporter
  • swp-mediator
  • swp-nginx
  • swp-nginx-proxy
  • swp-ui
  • swp-zookeeper


Example: Observe the overall health of Docker containers

Susan, a tenant administrator, observes the collective CPU load of all the Docker containers over a time period to track the overall health of the BMC Helix Intelligent Integrations on-premises environment. She might decide to expand the container footprints based on her observations. For example, she notices that CPU load is more than 90% for a particular time period, which might have led to slow performance of the UI. After analysis, she realizes that the swp-mediator container is consuming most of the CPUs, so she might want to increase the number of CPUs.


To view the Container Performance Metrics dashboard

  1. Log on to the BMC Helix Intelligent Integrations dashboards UI:
    1. Enter the following URL: 
      http://<hostName>:3005 
      hostName is the name of the host where the BMC Helix Intelligent Integrations gateway is installed.
    2. Enter the user name and password.
      The default user name and password are admin and admin.
    3. When prompted, change the password if needed.
  2. In the navigation pane, select Dashboards Dashboards.pngand click Browse.

  3. In the General folder, click Container Performance Metrics.

    Tip: Quick access from the home page

    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. 

Container metrics in the Container Performance Metrics dashboard

The following table describes the metrics displayed in the Container Performance Metrics dashboard:

 

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