OpenShift provides an embedded prometheus server. However, version < 4.3 de not provide the availability to monitor custom services. You can follow the links for official OpenShift documentation:
- https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.3/monitoring/cluster_monitoring/configuring-the-monitoring-stack.html
- https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.3/monitoring/monitoring-your-own-services.html
With IBM Cloud Pak MCM, prometheus+grafana is embeded. You can access the Grafana server through the MCM WEB UI.
First thing you want to set is Prometheus retention of information. First check retention time with following command :
[root@workstation ~ ]$ oc get prometheus monitoring-prometheus -n kube-system -o yaml | grep retention
retention: 24hBy default it's 24h but you can extend to 7 days for example (168h) by editing this file.
Grafana provides a custom dashboard for velero (ID 11055):
https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/11055
You can directly load this dashboard to start monitoring velero.
I provided an enhanced Grafana dashboard with additional informations about velero-pvc-watcher addon here [Grafana enhanced dashboard JSON](../resources/velero/grafana/Kubernetes _ Addons _ Velero Stats-1591178070559.json)
This dashboard displays the number of missing PVC annotations and also which namespace ans which resources.
