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# 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 <code class="expression">space.vars.product\_acronym</code> 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](/private-cloud-director/monitoring-and-observability/monitoring.md) 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](/private-cloud-director/monitoring-and-observability/monitoring.md#accessing-grafana-dashboards) and [Log into Grafana](/private-cloud-director/monitoring-and-observability/monitoring.md#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.


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