Putting it all together

We have seen all the super metrics required to monitor performance. Let's put them together and see the actual dashboards. The following example is for a tier-2 cluster:

Putting it all together

The Capacity Monitoring dashboard

The reason you need to have separate dashboards for each tier is the SLA. Each tier has its own metric. The View widget cannot show different metrics based on certain conditions.

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