kibana-dashboard.md

Kibana Dashboard

Goal: Explore Calico observability tools in Kibana UI.

Calico observability tools

1. Kibana dashboards

   The Kibana components comes with Calico commercial offerings and provides you access to raw flow, audit, and dns logs, as well as ability to visualize the collected data in various dashboards.

   

   Calico provide Some of the default dashboards you get access to, including are DNS Logs, Flow Logs, Audit Logs, Kuernetes API calls, L7 HTTP metrics etc, and you can also customernize different dashboard.

2. DNS dashboards

   The DNS dashboard will give you a general idea about how DNS behave in your cluster, including internal & external queries, also DNS latency as it shows below.

   

3. L7 logs

   The L7 dashboard will give you all details related to http protocol including method, response code and url etc. We will enable L7 logs in later module.

   

4. Flow logs

   The ee flow log dashboard will give you all details related to every flow logs including deny & allow action and the reporter, you can find out kubernetes context as well while expand each flow logs.

   

5. Audit logs

   The audit logs dashboard is useful as you can filter them by username and verb, example below is filter by user [email protected] which means the action is from UI manager user. We will enable k8s audit logs in later module.

   

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