01 Monitor an Environment

This page details how to monitor a Rancher environment using Weavescope.
Monitoring is essential for keeping your environment and its hosts in good shape.

More information can be found here.

1. Go to Rancher UI
2. Click "Add from Catalog" button
3. Filter catalog items by "weavescope"
4. Click the "View Details" button
5. Leave fields with default values and click "Launch" button
6. Wait for all WeaveScope services to start, then click the "4040" link from Ports field
7. See WeaveScope in action
8. Organize WeaveScope data by Containers displayed as table
9. Click the containers running DokuWiki
10. Click the "Exec shell" link
11. Inside the console, type "top" command and take a peek inside this container processes
12. Close the console when you're done
13. Organize WeaveScope data by Hosts displayed as table
14. Click the row displaying ra2 host to open an overview of this host