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Resource: Live Insights & Operations

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The Live tab offers real-time insights and management capabilities for your cloud resources. It provides a comprehensive view of pipeline activities, Kubernetes workloads, Terraform outputs, and monitoring dashboards.

Use Cases

  • Real-Time Monitoring: Observe live deployment statuses and resource metrics to ensure system health and performance.
  • Deployment Management: Oversee and control deployment pipelines, including version rollbacks and promotions.
  • Kubernetes Operations: Manage Kubernetes workloads with actions like rolling restarts and scaling adjustments.
  • Infrastructure Outputs Access: Retrieve and utilise Terraform outputs for seamless integration and configuration.
  • Resource Monitoring: Utilise Grafana-powered dashboards to monitor CPU usage, memory consumption, and pod restarts.

Functionalities

1. Pipeline Activity

This section displays the current state and version history segmented into:

  • Build Registered: Tracks the changes to the artifact being deployed.
  • Blueprint Activity: Monitors changes and deployments related to the blueprint configurations.
  • Override Activity: Logs modifications applied to the resources as overrides.

Each category presents:

  • Live Version: The version currently deployed.
  • Release Pending Version: The version queued for deployment.
  • Version History: An expandable table detailing past versions with timestamps and statuses.

The Version History table includes a rollback feature, allowing you to revert to a specific version if necessary.

2. Kubernetes Dashboard

This dashboard offers a live overview of your Kubernetes cluster, covering:

  • Workloads:

    • Pods: Displays status, age, restarts, readiness, and available actions.
    • Deployments, DaemonSets, StatefulSets, CronJobs, Jobs: Provides insights into the state and performance of various controllers and jobs.

  • Storage:

    • Persistent Volume Claims (PVCs) and Persistent Volumes (PVs): Shows storage allocations, statuses, and capacities.

  • Autoscaling:

    • Horizontal Pod Autoscalers (HPAs): Monitors scaling activities and metrics.

For Pods, the following actions are available:

  • Rolling Restart: Gracefully restarts pods to apply updates or recover from issues.
  • Refresh: Updates the pod list to reflect the current state.
  • Promote: Advances a pod to a stable release, particularly useful in blue-green or canary deployments.
  • Abort: Terminates a deployment in progress, applicable during blue-green or canary strategies.

3. Terraform Outputs

This section displays the outputs from your Terraform configurations, including:

  • Interfaces: Endpoints or connection details exposed by your resources.
  • Attributes: Key-value pairs representing resource properties.

Each output offers action buttons to copy names and dollar references ($refs) for seamless integration into your configurations.

4. Monitoring Dashboards

Real-time monitoring is facilitated through Grafana-powered dashboards, featuring:

  • CPU Usage: Visualizes CPU consumption across your resources.
  • Memory Usage: Tracks memory allocation and usage patterns.
  • Pod Restarts: Monitors the frequency and reasons for pod restarts, aiding in troubleshooting.

5. Additional Dashboards

Depending on the selected resource type, additional dashboards may include:

  • Ingress Overview: Details traffic routing, load balancing, and external access points.
  • Historical Logs: Provides access to past logs for auditing and debugging purposes.

These dashboards adapt based on the resource type selected, ensuring relevant information is presented for effective management.

FAQs

Q1: How can I perform a rollback to a previous version?

Navigate to the Pipeline Activity section, expand the Version History table, and select the desired version to revert to using the rollback mechanism.

Q2: What actions are available for managing pods?

In the Kubernetes Dashboard, you can perform actions such as Rolling Restart, Refresh, Promote, and Abort.

Q3: What monitoring metrics are available?

The Monitoring Dashboards provide metrics on CPU Usage, Memory Usage, and Pod Restarts, visualized through Grafana dashboards.

Q4: Are the dashboards customizable?

Dashboards are tailored based on the selected resource type, ensuring relevant information is displayed for effective management.

Troubleshooting

Issue: Changes are not reflecting in the Kubernetes Dashboard.

  • Solution: Ensure you have clicked the Refresh action to update the pod list. If the issue persists, verify your Kubernetes cluster's connectivity and health.

Issue: Unable to perform a rollback to a previous version.

  • Solution: Confirm that the desired version is listed in the Version History. If it's unavailable, the version may not be eligible for rollback.

Issue: Terraform outputs are not displaying correctly.

  • Solution: Check that your Terraform configurations have been applied successfully. Re-run the Terraform apply process if necessary and refresh the Live tab.

Updated about 21 hours ago