Monitoring overview
Monitor the health of your cluster and virtual machines (VMs) to have a unified operational view of your environment. This ensures high availability and optimal resource performance.
You can monitor the health of your cluster and VMs with the following tools:
- Monitoring OpenShift Virtualization VM health status
View the overall health of your OpenShift Virtualization environment in the web console by navigating to the Home → Overview page in the OpenShift Container Platform web console. The Status card displays the overall health of OpenShift Virtualization based on the alerts and conditions.
- OpenShift Container Platform cluster checkup framework
Run automated tests with the OpenShift Container Platform cluster checkup framework to ensure that your cluster, including cluster storage, is optimally configured for OpenShift Virtualization.
- Prometheus queries for virtual resources
Query vCPU, network, storage, and guest memory swapping usage and live migration progress.
- VM custom metrics
Configure the
node-exporterservice to expose internal VM metrics and processes.- VM health checks
Configure readiness, liveness, and guest agent ping probes and a watchdog for VMs.
- Runbooks
Diagnose and resolve issues that trigger OpenShift Virtualization alerts in the OpenShift Container Platform web console.