Monitoring System

The Virtual Cluster provides a monitoring system which gives an overview of the uptime and different CPU and network metrics for all instances. Running instances are automatically transmitting their performance data to a database of the monitoring system and the data is displayed by a web frontend. This web frontend can be accessed by entering:

https://<name_or_ip_of_the_virtual_cluster>/monitoring

in the address bar of a web browser using the user credentials as defined when creating the user account on the Virtual Cluster.

Access Privileges

A different access level for the monitoring system is granted based on the authorization level for the created account. Unlike admin users, regular users are unable to edit or create new resources.

Note

Refer to Authentication and Authorization for additional details to achieve this.

Alerting

Alerting is enabled by default and is being controlled by the configured notification channel.In order to adjust the configuration or create a new notification channel, navigate to ‘Alerting’ > ‘Notification Channels’ to view the existing notification channels.

Replacing a notification channel

If the same type should be kept you can edit the existing notification channel. Alternatively remove the ‘Default’ flag under ‘Notification settings’ and create a new notification channel with this flag set.

Adding a new notification channel

Note

If there is already a notification channel please refer to Replacing a notification channel

On the notification channel page click ‘New channel’ and configure it accordingly. The required information varies on the type. Please refer to the official Grafana documentation for additional help.

Warning

Make sure to enable the ‘Default’ flag under ‘Notification settings’ in order to apply it to existing alerts.