How to check specific pods CPU/memory consumption in Grafana
Instructions
1. Open Grafana from Admin page ‘Monitoring’ section
[ALT text: A screenshot of a web application interface showing the "System Management" section. On the left side, there's a navigation menu with options such as "User Management," "App Configuration," "Server & Features," and "Data Groups." The main area displays a table with columns for "Server," "Application Title," "Query Count," "Build Time," "Status," and "Description," but no data entries are visible. The header includes tabs labeled "Analytics" and "Graphics."]
2. On the left side menu click ‘Dashboards’, then choose dashboard ‘All pods per namespace’
[ALT text: A screenshot of a dark-themed dashboard interface showing a list of dashboards and their details. The section titled "Dashboards" is highlighted, with a specific dashboard named "all pods per namespace" displayed in the main area. There are additional columns indicating tags related to Kubernetes resources like Cluster and Pod.]
3. On top of the dashboard, in the namespace section choose ‘sisense’
[ALT Text: A screenshot of a dark-themed user interface showing various tabs labeled "Namespace," "Sidebar," "Pod," and "Node." Below, there is a graph indicating CPU usage, which peaks at 140%. The design features a clean layout with a minimalist aesthetic.]
4. In the top right corner choose the appropriate time frame. By default, the time is set to last 3 hours. Depending on when
the issue you are experiencing started, choose the time from before the issue started. For example, if the issue started
around 3-4 hours before, the best option would be to last 6 hours.
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[ALT Text: A screenshot of a time range selection interface. The "Absolute time range" section shows two fields labeled "From" and "To," with the "From" field set to "now-3h" and the "To" field set to "now." A dropdown menu for "Search quick ranges" is visible on the right, displaying options including "Last 15 minutes," "Last 30 minutes," "Last 1 hour," "Last 3 hours," "Last 6 hours," "Last 12 hours," "Last 24 hours," and "Last 2 days." Below the dropdown, there is a note indicating that recently used intervals will appear here and a link to read the documentation is highlighted.]5. Depending on which pods you need to check, choose the appropriate pods in ‘Pod’ section in top of the dashboard. For
example, you need to check ‘qry' pods. Then you type ‘qry’ in the ‘Pod’ section and press on ‘selected’ button to
choose all filtered po
[ALT text: A blurred screenshot of a software interface displaying a list of selected pods within a namespace labeled "qry." The list shows four selected items with checkmarks next to their names, including a specific pod labeled "qry" and others related to e-commerce and retail. The CPU usage appears at 100%.]
6. When making a screenshot of the pods, both CPU usage and Memory usage graphs should be fully visible
[ALT Text: "A data visualization dashboard displaying two graphs: the top graph shows CPU usage over time with a sharp spike and drop, while the bottom graph represents memory usage remaining relatively stable. Both graphs include time markers along the horizontal axis and usage percentage or memory size on the vertical axis."]7. In case you need to check several different pods (like qry and query OR bld and build, etc), better to make a separa
screenshot for each type of a pod. After you have made a screenshot of one type of pods, open ‘Pod’ section again
and press on ‘Selected’ to make sure that it will show zero. After that start typing next pod’s name
[ALT text: "Screenshot of a dark interface displaying a pod selection menu in a computing environment. The 'Namespace' dropdown is set to 'skiense' and the 'Pod' dropdown shows 'build' with an additional item 'build-8bbab4947c-zcgmf' highlighted and selected."]
