To monitor and analyze network performance within your cluster, view networking metrics in the OKD web console. By accessing these dashboards through Observe → Dashboards, you can identify traffic patterns and troubleshoot connectivity issues to ensure consistent workload availability.
If you have the Network Observability Operator installed, you can view network traffic metrics dashboards by selecting the Netobserv dashboard from the Dashboards drop-down list. For more information about metrics available in this Dashboard, see Network Observability metrics dashboards.
You can view both general networking metrics and OVN-Kubernetes metrics from the dashboard.
To view general networking metrics, select Networking/Linux Subsystem Stats from the Dashboards drop-down list. You can view the following networking metrics from the dashboard: Network Utilisation, Network Saturation, and Network Errors.
To view OVN-Kubernetes metrics select Networking/Infrastructure from the Dashboards drop-down list. You can view the following OVN-Kubernetes metrics: Networking Configuration, TCP Latency Probes, Control Plane Resources, and Worker Resources.
You can view networking metrics handled by the Ingress Operator from the dashboard. This includes metrics like the following:
Incoming and outgoing bandwidth
HTTP error rates
HTTP server response latency
To view these Ingress metrics, select Networking/Ingress from the Dashboards drop-down list. You can view Ingress metrics for the following categories: Top 10 Per Route, Top 10 Per Namespace, and Top 10 Per Shard.