Monitoring capabilities from the Developer perspective
The Observe view in the Developer perspective shows monitoring tools filtered by your project access permissions to track performance, troubleshoot issues, and respond to alerts. You can monitor CPU, memory, bandwidth, and network metrics.
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Starting with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.19, the perspectives in the web console have unified. The Developer perspective is no longer enabled by default. All users can interact with all Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform web console features. However, if you are not the cluster owner, you might need to request permission to access certain features from the cluster owner. You can still enable the Developer perspective. On the Getting Started pane in the web console, you can take a tour of the console, find information on setting up your cluster, view a quick start for enabling the Developer perspective, and follow links to explore new features and capabilities. See also, "Enabling the Developer perspective in the web console". |
The Observe view in the Developer perspective uses the same monitoring components as the Administrator perspective, but displays only the projects you have permissions for. You can monitor your applications without seeing cluster-wide metrics you cannot access.
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A project represents a Kubernetes namespace with additional annotations. When you select a project in the Developer perspective, you view the topology and metrics for that namespace. |
After selecting a project in the Observe view, the following tabs become available:
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Events: Cluster events filtered by the selected project
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Alerting rules: Configured alerting rules and their current state
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Alerts: Firing alerts for the selected project
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Dashboards: Pre-built visual dashboards showing resource consumption graphs including CPU usage, memory usage, bandwidth consumption, and network-related information
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Metrics: Prometheus query interface for analyzing specific metrics
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Silences: Create and manage alert silences to temporarily suppress alert notifications
The monitoring interface is the same as the Administrator perspective, with the key difference being project filtering based on your access permissions.
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In the Administrator perspective, the monitoring tabs are immediately available with a project dropdown for filtering. In the Developer perspective, you must select a project before the tabs are displayed. This scoping enables your developers to observe their applications by using the same monitoring tools as cluster administrators, focused only on their assigned projects. |