Chapter 2. Console monitoring and alerting
Red Hat Quay provides support for monitoring instances that were deployed by using the Red Hat Quay Operator, from inside the OpenShift Container Platform console. The new monitoring features include a Grafana dashboard, access to individual metrics, and alerting to notify for frequently restarting Quay pods.
To enable the monitoring features, the Red Hat Quay Operator must be installed in All Namespaces mode.
2.1. Dashboard
On the OpenShift Container Platform console, click Monitoring → Dashboards and search for the dashboard of your desired Red Hat Quay registry instance:
The dashboard shows various statistics including the following:
- The number of Organizations, Repositories, Users, and Robot accounts
- CPU Usage
- Max memory usage
- Rates of pulls and pushes, and authentication requests
- API request rate
- Latencies
2.2. Metrics
You can see the underlying metrics behind the Red Hat Quay dashboard by accessing Monitoring → Metrics in the UI. In the Expression field, enter the text quay_ to see the list of metrics available:
Select a sample metric, for example, quay_org_rows:
This metric shows the number of organizations in the registry. It is also directly surfaced in the dashboard.
2.3. Alerting
An alert is raised if the Quay pods restart too often. The alert can be configured by accessing the Alerting rules tab from Monitoring → Alerting in the console UI and searching for the Quay-specific alert:
Select the QuayPodFrequentlyRestarting rule detail to configure the alert: