To access Grafana, follow these steps:
- Use
admin
as both the username and password to log in. - Create a new password when prompted.
- Explore the Grafana UI to familiarize yourself with its features.
You can import pre-built dashboards from the Grafana community to monitor your cluster and deployments. Find these dashboards at Grafana Dashboards.
- Go to Grafana Dashboards.
- Open the desired dashboard.
- Copy the dashboard ID.
- Paste the ID at
http://localhost:3000/dashboard/import
.
To monitor your cluster's state using the Node Full Exporter dashboard:
- Visit
http://localhost:3000/dashboard/import
. - Fill in the ID field with
1860
.
Read More about Node Full Exporter
This dashboard displays metrics exported by Prometheus Node Exporter, a resource created during the installation of prometheus. This metrics includes:
- CPU Usage
- System Load
- RAM Usage
- Uptime
- Total Root File System
- Total RAM
- Total SWAP
- SWAP Usage
- Root File System Usage
- CPU Cores
To monitor ArgoCD and your application deployment using the ArgoCD dashboard:
- Go to ArgoCD Dashboard and learn about ArgoCD dashboard.
- Copy the dashboard ID ie;
14584
. - Create a new dashboard with the above ID at
http://localhost:3000/dashboard/import
.
This dashboard monitors:
- Application Health
- Application Sync Health
- Controller Stats
- Other ArgoCD-related resources