In this topic, you can find information on how to monitor and retrieve the health status of the nodes.

Health Monitoring - Pods

To get details of the Kube API Server health, perform the following steps:
  1. Go to https://<Telcocloud serviceassurance-ui-IP>..

    A typical URL for logging in to the user interface from the same system on which VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance is installed is, https://10.x.x.x.

  2. Enter user name and password.
  3. Click Next.
  4. Click Dashboard & Reports. The Grafana homepage appears.
  5. Go to Health Monitoring - Pods dashboard present under the Health Reports section of the Dashboard & Reports Home page.
  6. To view health monitoring pods for Kube API Server, select kube-system from the namespace drop-down and filter the pod name using kube-apiserver.* to get the essential CPU and memory information.
HealthMonitoringPods

Health Status

In the Health Status dashboard, selecting different namespace gives various details about the node health, metric server health, kafka-dege, vsphere csi health, metallb health, and so on.

Available namespaces are:
  • cert-manager
  • istio-system
  • kafka-edge
  • kapp-controller-packaging-global
  • kube-node-lease
  • kube-public
  • kube-system
  • metallb-system
  • tcx-system
  • vmware-system-csi
HealthStatus

Dashboard represents specific information for the chosen namespace. For instance, upon selecting namespaces such as Default, vmware-system-csi, and metallb-system, the dashboard provides the associated details.

Node Health: By default, this dashboard displays information related to the health status of all nodes.NodeHealth

vSphere CSI Health: Choose the vmware-system-csi namespace from the drop-down menu to access detailed information regarding the health status of vSphere CSI.vSphereCSI

MetalLB Health: Choose the metallb-system namespace from the drop-down menu to access detailed information regarding the health status of MetalLB. MetalLBHealth