Metrics Dashboard
Cloud ZCP provides robust monitoring capabilities, primarily through integrated dashboards within the platform and more advanced visualizations within Grafana.
The ZCP console allows users with project permissions to check information about the containers within their project. Beyond basic resource usage displayed in the console dashboard, detailed metric data is collected and visualized through dedicated dashboards, primarily using Grafana. The platform centrally collects all metrics from registered Data Plane Clusters via a Prometheus Agent and stores them in a central repository (Cortex) on the Control Plane Cluster. This architecture supports collecting and visualizing metrics from multiple Data Plane Clusters and provides isolated metric data spaces for Multi-Project environments based on tenant IDs.
Monitoring Dashboards
There are two main type of dashboards:
- Project Dashboard: You can access this dashboard through the Cloud ZCP Console.
- Grafana Dashboard: You can access advanced monitoring metrics on Grafana.
Project Dashboard
- On the sidebar menu, choose Monitoring to access the project monitoring dashboard:
- The Project Monitoring Dashboard displays graphical representations of CPU, Memory usage, File-system, Network I/O, storage usage, and Ingress Controller requests for containers within the project.
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It also shows the number of available/unavailable Deployments, Ready/NotReady ReplicaSets and StatefulSets, and Pod status by state (Failed, Pending, Running, Succeeded).
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Project users will see an integrated dashboard showing the status of deployed applications based on the cluster and Namespace (created by the Deployment Group) used in their project.
Grafana Dashboards
For more detailed information and a wider range of dashboards, click the Advanced Monitoring button in the top-right corner of the Monitoring screen in the Console:
You will be automatically logged into Grafana when accessing it through the Web Console. Alternatively, you can access Grafana directly via its Domain URL and log in using the same Cloud ZCP account credentials.
In Grafana, you can monitor collected metric data through dashboards. Click the Dashboard icon on the left and go to the Browse tab to view available dashboards. The dashboards available may vary depending on your permissions and organization.
See Grafana Monitoring Dashboards page for more details.