Accessing metrics

    1. To open Grafana, enter the following command:
    • This starts a local proxy of Grafana on port 3000. For security reasons, the Grafana UI is exposed only within the cluster.

    1. Navigate to the Grafana UI at http://localhost:3000.

    The following dashboards are pre-installed with Knative Serving:

    • Nodes: CPU, memory, network, and disk metrics at node level
    • Pods: CPU, memory, and network metrics at pod level
    • Deployment: CPU, memory, and network metrics aggregated at deployment level
    • Istio, Mixer and Pilot: Detailed Istio mesh, Mixer, and Pilot metrics
    • Kubernetes: Dashboards giving insights into cluster health, deployments, and capacity usage
    1. Set up an administrator account to modify or add dashboards by signing in with username: and password: admin.
    • Before you expose the Grafana UI outside the cluster, make sure to change the password. You will be prompted to set a password on first login, and it can later be changed at .

    Prometheus

    2. $(kubectl get pods -n knative-monitoring \
    4. 9090
    • This starts a local proxy of Prometheus on port 9090. For security reasons, the Prometheus UI is exposed only within the cluster.
    1. Navigate to the Prometheus UI at

    You can use the Prometheus web UI to troubleshoot publishing and service discovery issues for metrics.

    • To see the targets that are being scraped, go to Status -> Targets
    • To see a specific metric you can search for in the in search box on the top of the page