{"id":50083,"date":"2026-06-23T06:56:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T06:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/?p=50083"},"modified":"2026-06-23T06:56:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T06:56:24","slug":"openshift-lab-10-view-performance-information-using-the-openshift-web-console","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/openshift-lab-10-view-performance-information-using-the-openshift-web-console\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenShift Lab 10: View Pod, Workload, and Namespace Performance Metrics Using the OpenShift Web Console"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OpenShift Lab 10: View Pod, Workload, and Namespace Performance Metrics Using the OpenShift Web Console<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Updated lab flow<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Start OpenShift Local.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Log in to the web console.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Create project <code>lab10-performance-demo<\/code>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Deploy a lightweight web app or resource-pressure Job.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>View pods and workload details in <strong>Topology<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Open <strong>Observe \u2192 Dashboards<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select dashboard:<code>Kubernetes \/ Compute Resources \/ Namespace (Workloads)<\/code><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>View CPU, memory, network receive\/transmit, pod count, and workload metrics.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Use <strong>Observe \u2192 Metrics<\/strong> to run simple PromQL queries.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Validate from CLI using:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\" aria-describedby=\"shcb-language-1\" data-shcb-language-name=\"JavaScript\" data-shcb-language-slug=\"javascript\"><span><code class=\"hljs language-javascript\">oc <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">get<\/span> pods\noc <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">get<\/span> jobs\noc logs job\/rpjob\noc adm top pods\n<\/code><\/span><small class=\"shcb-language\" id=\"shcb-language-1\"><span class=\"shcb-language__label\">Code language:<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__name\">JavaScript<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">(<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__slug\">javascript<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">)<\/span><\/small><\/pre>\n\n\n<ol start=\"11\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Explain why metrics may take 30\u201360 seconds to appear.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Clean up the project.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One important update: Red Hat\u2019s monitoring docs note that from OpenShift 4.19 onward, the web console perspectives changed and the Developer perspective is no longer enabled by default in the same way, so our lab should avoid depending too heavily on old Developer Sandbox screenshots. We can still mention Developer\/Administrator views, but we should write the steps flexibly for the current console. 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