Hands-On Kubernetes on Windows

Adding visualizations

First, let's create the dashboard and add the first visualization for CPU usage for Windows nodes. Please perform the following steps:

1. Navigate to the Grafana web UI and log in with the credentials provided in the Helm chart release. The default is user admin and password P@ssword.
2. From the side panel, click the + button and choose Dashboard.
3. Click the Save Dashboard button and provide voting application as the name.
4. Choose Add Query.

5. Provide the following query in the first metric: 100 - (avg by (instance) (irate(wmi_cpu_time_total{mode="idle"}[2m])) * 100). This query calculates the average CPU usage in the last two minutes using counters for the total CPU idle time.
6. In Legend, provide {{instance}} to use the node ...