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Dashboard Overview

In addition to the My Cluster tab, the Dashboard screen contains a default dashboard (the Default tab) that provides metrics for and essential information about the cluster. You can modify the contents and appearance of the Default dashboard, as well as add more dashboards (as new tabs on the screen).

The Default tab contains several widgets. A widget is a UI element that provides a visual representation of a set of metrics or provides information about the state of the cluster.

On Default, you can add any number of widgets.

Dashboard Overview

The Default tab consists of the following elements:

  • Tab bar — for arranging widgets into tabs. By default, there is one tab which is called "Default Dashboard" and provides a predefined set of widgets. You can add tabs and reorganize the size and location of any widget.

  • Time Period control — for selecting the time period for charts.

  • ADD WIDGET button — for adding a widget.

Adding Tabs

To add a tab, click the icon located in the tab bar and select to create an empty dashboard, or one of templates. The menu of each tab enables you to rename, clone, or remove the tab.

Dashboard Templates

Dashboard templates are a quick way to create a dashboard with predefined widgets. GridGain Control Center provides the following templates:

  • Default: The default dashboard for monitoring cluster status. Has the following widgets: Nodes, Heat Map, Memory, Cpu Load, Heap Size widgets.

  • Persistance: This dashboard has widgets that are configured for optimal persistence monitoring. Has the following widgets: Last Checkpoint Duration, Storage Size, Write Throttling Max., Write Throttling, Dirty Pages, Page replacement

  • Sql:This dashboard has widgets that are configured for monitoring SQL transactions. Has the following widgets: Queries, Total, Query Free Memory, min, Query Free memory (Heat Map), Query Free memory (Graph)

Saving Dashboard as Template

You can save your current dashboard as a template by clicking ⋮ and selecting Save as Template. In the subsequent dialog, specify the template name.

Managing Custom Templates

You can remove or rename an existing templates. Click the icon located in the tab bar and select Manage Templates. In the dialog, click ⋮ next to the custom template, and select to Rename or Delete it.

Enabling and Disabling Tasks

To save CPU and memory, you can disable certain tasks that are enabled by default. You can re-enable the previously disabled tasks.

The tasks that can be disabled and enabled via the UI are:

  • Tracing

  • Metric monitoring

  • Compute monitoring

To disable or enable any of the above tasks:

  1. Open the cluster’s context menu in the top right corner.

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  2. Switch the required tasks' toggle "on" or "off."

Changing the Time Period For Charts

The tab bar contains the Time Period control. When you click this control, a date/time picker opens.

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The picker enables you to select a time period for all widgets in the current tab (dashboard):

  • Relative to

Changing the Time Period For Charts

The tab bar contains the Time Period control. When you click this control, a date/time picker opens.

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The picker enables you to select a time period for all widgets in the current tab (dashboard):

  • Relative to the current date/time

  • Absolute (custom) - unrelated to the current date/time

Relative to the Current Time

To select a period relative to the current date/time:

  1. In the left-hand section of the picker, select the required option; e.g., Last 1 hour, Last 2 days, etc.

  2. Click Apply.

Absolute (Custom)

To define a period in absolute terms:

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  1. In the left-hand section of the picker, select the Custom option.

  2. In the right0hand (calendar) section of the picker, select the first and last dates of the period.

  3. Click Apply.

Triggering Garbage Collection for a Node

You can trigger garbage collection for a specific node if you suspect a memory leak.

Proceed as follows:

  1. Locate the node for which you want to initiate garbage collection in the Nodes widget.

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  2. Select the Trigger garbage collection option from node’s context menu.

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  3. In the confirmation dialog that opens, click Trigger.

Collecting a Thread Dump for a Node

To collect a dump for a specific thread on a selected node in your cluster:

  1. In the Nodes widget, locate the required node.

  2. From the node’s context menu, select Get thread dump.

    The Thread dump dialog opens. By default, it lists thread in all statuses, sorted by name in ascending order.

    The thread statuses are:

    • NEW - has not started yet

    • RUNNABLE - is executing on the Java virtual machine

    • BLOCKED - is blocked, waiting for a monitor lock

    • WAITING - is waiting indefinitely for another thread to perform a particular action

    • TIMED_WAITING - is waiting for another thread to perform an action (for a specified time period)

    • TERMINATED - has been executed

      The top thread on the list is selected, and that thread’s dump is displayed for previewing in the lower part of the dialog.

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  3. To navigate to the required thread, do any or all of the following:

    1. Click column headers to change the sorting order.

    2. Click a status chip in the left-hand part of the toolbar to filter the list to a specific thread status.

    3. Start typing the required thread’s name in the progressive search field in the right part of the toolbar to filter the list by name.

    4. Click Refresh in the top right corner of the dialog to refresh the thread list.

  4. Select the required thread on the list.

  5. Click Download in the top right corner of the dialog.

    The thread dump is downloaded to your machine as a .txt file.

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