Management Plane Health Monitoring

View the health of your self-hosted management plane (Kubernetes control plane, etcd, and nodes) using dedicated Grafana dashboards.

For self-hosted PCD deployments, the health of the management plane itself — the Kubernetes control plane it runs on, etcd, and the underlying nodes — is monitored separately from the hypervisor and VM metrics described in Monitoring. This page covers accessing and reading those dashboards.

Access

These dashboards use the same Grafana instance and login flow as the rest of your monitoring stack. See Accessing Grafana Dashboards and Log into Grafana if you have not logged in before.

Once in Grafana, open the dashboard browser and look for the following dashboards, in addition to the hypervisor and VM ones:

Dashboard	Shows
Management Plane	Aggregate, at-a-glance health of the management cluster.
Node Health	Per-node CPU, memory, and disk pressure for the nodes the management plane runs on.
etcd Health	etcd leader status, commit latency, and proposal failures.
Kubernetes Cluster Health	Pod and deployment state (crash loops, failed/pending pods, degraded deployments) and PVC capacity/binding status.
Certificate Expiry	Time remaining before management-plane certificates expire.

Granting read-only access

To give someone visibility into these dashboards without full Grafana admin access, create them a Viewer-role user from Server Admin → Users in Grafana. A Viewer can browse dashboards but cannot change data sources, alert rules, or other users.