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title: Part 3 - Visibility and Monitoring 
description: Learn Rafay Kubernetes Operation Platform (KOP) with EKS Workshop. Rafay is a SaaS-first Kubernetes Operations Platform with enterprise-class scalability.
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In this section, you will explore the integrated visibility and monitoring capabilities of the platform. Specifically, you will explore the dashboards that provide you access to both critical summary and trends. 

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- You will start with a "bird's eye view" and contextually click in one level at a time, going deeper and deeper. 
- Critical metrics are automatically scraped and aggregated at the controller in a centralized time series database (TSDB)
- Interactive, real time access to this data is provided

**Estimated Time**

Estimated time burden for this part is 5 minutes. 

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## Org Dashboard

Click on Home -> Dashboard to view all clusters, projects, user activity, resource utilization and events in the Project. You should see something like the example below.

![Org Dashboard](/images/org_dashboard.png)

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## Project Dashboard

Select a Project and Click on Dashboard to view all clusters, projects, user activity, application, workloads and events across the entire Project. You should see something like the example below.

![Project Dashboard](/images/project_dashboard.png)

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## Cluster Dashboard 

In your project, click on Infrastructure -> Clusters. You should see something like the example below providing an overview of critical, operational metrics for your cluster. 

![Cluster Dashboard](/images/cluster_dashboard.png)

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## Node Dashboard

In the cluster dashboard, click on Nodes. This will provide you an overview of all the nodes in the cluster. You should see something like the example below.

![Node Dashboard](/images/node_dashboard.png)

Click on **Overview** for one of your nodes. This will provide you with a dashboard for the node.

![Node Dashboard Details](/images/node_dashboard_trends.png)

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## k8s Resources 
Click on the **Resources** tab. This will provide you access to an integrated Kubernetes dashboard where you can view the k8s resources organized by type, by namespace etc. 

![Kubernetes Dashboard](/images/k8s_resources.png)

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## Pod Dashboard

By default, the k8s dashboard will list the pods in the "kube-system" namespace. Click on the "coredns" pod to view the Pod dashboard. You should see something like the example below. 

![Pod Dashboard](/images/pod_dashboard.png)

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## Container Dashboard 

Click on "Configuration" for the pod in the pod dashboard

![Pod Configuration](/images/pod_config.png)

Now, click on the container in the configuration to go to the "container dashboard". You should see something like the example below.

![Container Dashboard](/images/container_dashboard.png)

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## Recap

Congratulations! At this point, you have successfully accessed the integrated dashboards for visibility and monitoring.
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