Accessing third-party UIs

• Managing metrics

• Reviewing monitoring dashboards

OKD also provides access to the Prometheus, Alertmanager, and Grafana third-party interfaces. Dashboards for some additional platform components are included in Monitoring → Dashboards in the OKD web console.

You can access the Alertmanager, Grafana, Prometheus, and Thanos Querier web UIs through the OKD web console.

Prerequisites

• You have access to the cluster as a user with the cluster-admin role.

1. In the Administrator perspective, navigate to Networking → Routes.

2. Access a third-party monitoring UI:

   • Select the URL in the alertmanager-main row to open the login page for the Alertmanager UI.

   • Select the URL in the grafana row to open the login page for the Grafana UI.

   • Select the URL in the row to open the login page for the Prometheus UI.

   • Select the URL in the thanos-querier row to open the login page for the Thanos Querier UI.

Accessing third-party monitoring UIs by using the CLI

You can obtain URLs for the Prometheus, Alertmanager, and Grafana web UIs by using the OpenShift CLI (oc) tool.

Prerequisites

• You have access to the cluster as a user with the cluster-admin role.

Procedure

1. Run the following to list routes for the project:

   Example output

   NAME                HOST/PORT                                                     ...
   alertmanager-main   alertmanager-main-openshift-monitoring.apps._url_.openshift.com ...
   grafana             grafana-openshift-monitoring.apps._url_.openshift.com           ...
   prometheus-k8s      prometheus-k8s-openshift-monitoring.apps._url_.openshift.com    ...
   

2. Navigate to a HOST/PORT route by using a web browser.