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Dashboards

Dashboards help you see what's going on in your cluster. See how your cluster is performing, check your security posture, and visualize your system's log data.

About dashboards​

Calico Cloud provides a set of dashboards to help you understand the activity in your cluster. Each dashboard is made up of graphs, charts, and diagrams that visually represent the data in your logs.

To view your dashboards, sign in to Calico Cloud Manager and click the Dashboards icon.

You can also create your own arrangement by creating a custom dashboard. With a custom dashboard, you can combine and arrange cards from any of the other dashboards.

Not all users have access to dashboards. Creating custom dashboards is limited to administrators.

Cluster Health​

The Cluster Health dashboard provides a birds-eye view of cluster activity.

dashboards

Security Posture (tech preview)​

The Security Posture dashboard helps you assess the overall security risk of your cluster and tells you how to address high-priority security issues. For more information, see Security Posture dashboard.

Security posture dashboard

Data Volume (tech preview)​

The Data Volume dashboard provides a high-level view of traffic in your cluster.

Data volume dashboard

DNS Logs (tech preview)​

The DNS Dashboard summarizes DNS data and logs into metrics, providing high-level information on the types of DNS lookups made, responses, and overall DNS performance.

DNS logs dashboard

Flow Logs (tech preview)​

The Flow Logs dashboard gives you an overview of how packets are being sent and received by all the pods in your cluster. Seeing this data helps you spot unusual flow activity, which may indicate a compromise.

Flow logs dashboard

L7 (tech preview)​

The L7 dashboard provides application performance metrics for inscope Kubernetes services. The data can assist service owners and platform personnel in assessing the health of cluster workloads without the need for a full service mesh. L7 logs are not enabled by default, and must be configured.

L7 dashboard

TCP Performance (tech preview)​

The TCP Performance dashboard provides TCP metrics to help you identify bottlenecks, packet loss, and performance issues.

TCP performance dashboard

Create a custom dashboard (tech preview)​

You can create your own custom dashboard by importing cards from other standard and custom dashboards.

Prerequisites

  • You are signed in to the Calico Cloud Manager UI as a user with the Owner, Admin, or Dashboards Admin role.

Procedure

  1. From the Calico Cloud Manager UI, click Dashboards > New Dashboard.
  2. Enter a name for your custom dashboard, and then press Enter.
  3. To import cards from existing dashboards, click Import Cards. In the dialog that appears, select the cards you want, and then click Import. The page now displays the cards you selected.
  4. Add, delete, or move the cards to create the arrangement that suits your needs.
    • To add a card, click Actions > Import and you can select more cards.
    • To delete a card, click the icon on the card, and then click Delete.
    • To move a card, click and hold the icon on the card, and then drag the card to a new location.