Viewing Pod Information

To monitor the resource usage of pods, go to the Pods tab. This tab provides information about all pods in a cluster and monitoring data of a pod, such as the CPU usage, memory usage, network inbound rate, network outbound rate, and disk usage.

Container groups, pods and instances are the same concept.

Navigation Path

Log in to the UCS console.
In the navigation pane, choose Container Intelligent Analysis. On the Container Insights > Clusters tab, click the target cluster name in Cluster Statistics and click the Pods tab.

This tab displays information about all pods. To view the monitoring data of a pod, click the pod name to access its Overview page and switch to the Containers or Monitoring tab.

Viewing Pods

The Pods tab lists the name, status, namespace, IP address, node, number of restarts, CPU request/limit, memory request/limit, CPU usage, and memory usage of each pod.

Figure 1 Pods

You can select a namespace and the name, status, IP address,or node above the list to quickly search for the desired pod.

You can click in the upper right corner of the list to export data of all pods or selected pods. The exported file is in .xlsx format, and the file name contains the timestamp.

Viewing Pod Details

In the pod list, click the pod name to to access its Overview page and switch to the Containers or Monitoring tab.

**Table 1** Modules on the pod details page
Module	Description
Overview	You can click the pod name to access this tab. This tab consists of the following: Resource Overview: displays the pod status and the numbers of abnormal and total containers, as well as abnormal events. Container Monitoring: displays the CPU usage, memory usage, network inbound rate, and network outbound rate. Container Usage Trend: You can switch the metrics in the upper left corner of the chart to view the CPU usage, used CPUs, memory usage, and used memory of each container in the pod. You can also click Top 5 (Descending) or Top 5 (Ascending) in the upper right corner to view the top 5 data in descending or ascending order.
Containers	This tab contains details such as the name, status, namespace, number of restarts, and image of each container. You can search for the desired container by name, status, or namespace. You can click in the upper right corner of the list to export data of all containers or selected containers. The exported file is in .xlsx format, and the file name contains the timestamp.
Monitoring	This tab displays the resource usage of the pod in each dimension in the last 1 hour, last 8 hours, last 24 hours, or a custom period. To view more monitoring information, click View Dashboard to access the Dashboard tab. For details, see Dashboard.