Monitoring a Ceph cluster with the Ceph dashboard

There are several options to monitor a Ceph cluster graphically. They are as follows:

Monitoring tools	Links
Calamari	https://ceph.com/category/calamari/
Kraken dash	https://github.com/krakendash/krakendash
Ceph dashboard	https://github.com/Crapworks/ceph-dash

All three of these are viable options to monitor a Ceph cluster. However, due to their simplicity and effectiveness, in this chapter, we are going to see how to install the Ceph dashboard.

Getting ready

The Ceph dashboard can be installed on any Ceph node or the Proxmox+Ceph node in the cluster. So long as it can read the ceph.conf file, it will function just fine. The Ceph dashboard does not require any web server or any other service to function. It is also a one-way monitoring system, meaning, we can read data but never write to the cluster.

How to do it…

1. Install git using the following command if it is not installed in the monitoring node:

   # apt-get install git
   

2. Clone the...