Monitoring the Ceph cluster with the Ceph dashboard
As with Proxmox VE 4.1, we can monitor and manage the Ceph storage cluster through the Proxmox GUI. Under the Ceph tabbed menu of each node, you will see a great amount of data such as the health status of the Ceph cluster, the number of OSDs, the MONs, pools, the Ceph configurations, and so on. Refer to Chapter 4, Storage Systems, for the information on Ceph management through the Proxmox GUI. In this section, we will see how to implement a third-party solution to monitor the Ceph cluster. There are several options used to monitor a Ceph cluster graphically, which are as follows:
Calamari: https://ceph.com/category/calamari/
Kraken Dash: https://github.com/krakendash/krakendash
The Ceph dashboard: https://github.com/Crapworks/ceph-dash
All the three options are viable options used to monitor the Ceph cluster. But owing to the simplicity and effectiveness of this chapter, we are going to see how to install the Ceph dashboard. This is the...
