Foglight for OpenStack 5.7.4 - User Guide

Quick View

The Quick View appears in the middle of the Monitoring tab on the OpenStack Environment dashboard. For more information about this dashboard, see Using the OpenStack Environment dashboard .

The Quick View displays a list of objects associated with the selected resource object and summary information about the object or group of objects you select.

The Quick View is made up of the following embedded views:

NOTE: The information displayed on the summary view varies depending on whether you select one resource object or a group of resource objects. The view for a group of resource objects displays graphs and tables showing Top CPU Consumers, Top Memory Consumers, Top Network Consumers, and Top Disk Consumers. The view for one resource object shows a list of related items and CPU Utilization, Memory Utilization, Network Usage, and Disk Throughput.

NOTE: The default view for All Volumes shows Top Disk Consumers. The summary view for a volume displays a list of related items and a graph showing disk throughput.

Reports tab

This tab is available in the OpenStack Environment view through a navigation tab. The display provides a convenient and easy-to-use dashboard with which to create reports, keep a track of past reports, reuse reports and edit reports.

Predefined report templates are included with Foglight for OpenStack.

For more information about the Reports dashboard, see the Foglight User Help.

The following templates are available with Foglight for OpenStack.

Resource Utilizations view

The Resource Utilizations view, typically located across the center of the Quick View display area, provides numerical and graphical representations of performance data associated with a chosen resource objects. To find it, open the OpenStack Explorer and on the Topology tab select the name of a particular resource from the resource object list in the left frame.

For example, selecting a particular Host Aggregate from the Topology tab and opening the Performance tab in the display area, displays four graphs in the Resource Utilizations view. The graphs depict CPU, memory, disk, and network resource utilizations for the selected Host Aggregate.

On the Summary tab, clicking a graph or a spinner shows a larger view of the graph with descriptive text about each metric appearing in the graph.

Storage

This tab is available in the OpenStack Explorer. To find it, open the OpenStack Explorer and on the Topology tab, that appears on the navigation panel, select a host or an Instance.

The tables displayed vary according to whether you selected a host or an instance.

The Storage tab displays a list of all mounted datastores on a Host or a list of all virtual disks associated with a particular Instance.