Fabric8 Documentation

Management

Fabric8 provides a number of features to help manage your software on top of Kubernetes.

• Console provides a nice web application based on hawtio for working with your apps, pods, replication controllers
• Logging provides consolidated logging and visualisation of log statements and events across your environment
• Metrics provides consolidated historical metric collection and visualisation across your environment

Logging and metrics are key parts of being able to maintain and understand distributed systems. Consolidating log statements and events and being able to query and visualise them is an extremely useful tool. Then capturing historical metrics an extremely useful tool to help diagnose your running system.

Installation

To install this app please see the Install Fabric8 on OpenShift Guide