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Version: 2.8

Overview

Home page → Left navigation pane → Clusters → (cluster-name) → Overview

Page Overview​

The cluster Overview page provides a high-level snapshot of the backup health and protection status of applications across the selected Kubernetes cluster. It serves as a centralized dashboard where users can quickly assess the effectiveness of their backup strategy and identify areas that need attention.

Page Components​

The key components of this page are as follows:

  1. Clusters/(cluster-name): a cluster breadcrumb to indicate that you are viewing a specific cluster called (cluster-name).

  2. Filter by clusters: A drop-down that allows you to choose the required cluster. To view dashboard data (protected applications, total backup data, latest alerts, and activity timeline) of a specific cluster, you need to choose the required cluster from this drop-down. This drop-down lists the first 200 application clusters added to PXB. You can also quickly search the required cluster by its name.

  3. Top Navigation Tabs

  • Overview: displays general information pertaining to the chosen Kubernetes cluster

  • Applications: displays the namespaces and VMs that are on the selected Kubernetes cluster, you can back up your applications from this tab

  • Backups: shows the namespace and VM backups you have created along with the status of the backup, you can restore the backups you have created from here

  • Restores: helps you to manage and view your restore operations

  • Schedules: you can view the schedules associated with your backups here along with its status and other details

  • Alerts: view alerts related to this cluster

Dashboard components​

  • Applications: displays the application protection status, shows the total number of applications with the breakdown of protected vs unprotected applications across the chosen cluster. Web console auto-refreshes this data frequently to fetch the latest data.

    • Protected: the number of applications of the chosen cluster that are currently backed up and hence protected
    • Unprotected: the number of applications belonging to the selected cluster that you have not backed up or protected
    note

    If you have backed up a namespace with Partial Success state, that namespace will be listed as protected.

  • Total Backup Data: this widget shows the cumulative size of all backup data of chosen Kubernetes cluster

  • Latest alerts: a panel that displays system-generated alerts and displays the recent five alerts

    To view the alerts associated with all the clusters or specific clusters, from the left navigation pane:

    • Click Alerts icon from the left navigation pane, and the Alerts page appears. You can search the alert by its name or filter by alert type or clusters

      OR

    • Click Clusters icon in the left navigation pane, choose the required cluster and then move to Alerts tab from the top tab view.

  • Activity timeline: this component is further classified into Activity timeline chart and Activity timeline table and holds the following components:

    • Backup: this tab displays the details of all the backups of various applications you have created across the selected Kubernetes cluster

    • Restore: this tab allows you to view the restore details of applications across selected Kubernetes cluster

    The following options/fields are common to both Backup and Restore tab:

    • Search by backup/restore name: a search box which allows you to search a backup by its name

    • Filter by status: filter by status field helps to shortlist the backups or restores with the following status:

      • In-Progress
      • Success
      • Failed
      • Deleting
      • Delete pending
      • Partial success

    • Time Filter (Last 24 hours): a drop-down that shows the backup or restore status data by time created

      • Last 24 hours
      • Last 1 week
      • Last 1 month

    • Download report: a drop-down that allows you to download backup or restore report either in:

      • PDF format
      • CSV format
      note

      Portworx Backup currently supports 20K backup and restore objects in PDF report and 40K objects in CSV report. You may observe system timeout issues while downloading the report if the number of objects exceed the specified limit.

    • Activity timeline chart: displays a bar graph representation of backups/restores along with their status. Hovering over the individual bar graph displays the number of backups/restores associated with the selected bar.

      note

      Activity timeline chart displays backups and restores that are in the following states for the logged-in user:

      • Success
      • Failed
      • In-Progress
      • Partial Success Backups and restores in Deleting and Delete pending state are not taken into account for here.

    • Activity timeline table for backup: displays specific details of backups spread across multiple backup locations and namespaces in tabular format. Lists individual backup activities with the following details:

      • BACKUP NAME: the unique identifier for the backup

      • Details: an expandable arrow to give more information on the backup such as status, activity information, backup schedules, upcoming schedules, retention period information, number of namespaces/VMs, resources, and volumes backed up in namespace or VM backup. You can click View All to view all the namespaces/VMs, resources and volumes associated with the backup. Besides, it gives options to delete, view Json, duplicate, edit and restore the backup.

        • Namespace backup details:
        • VM backup details:
        note

        Retention period information is visible only for AWS object lock enabled backup and for backups with Azure immutability support.

      • CLUSTER: cluster from where that backup is created

      • LOCATIONS: where the backup is stored

      • APP TYPE: type of application data that is backed up

      • SIZE: the size of the backup

      • CREATE TIME: the timestamp when the backup was started

      • COMPLETED TIME: the timestamp when the backup was completed

      • Clock icon and/or lock icon: a small clock icon after timestamp indicates that the backup is a scheduled backup. A lock icon indicates that backup is an object lock enabled backup.

      • OWNER: log-in name of the user who initiated the backup

      • Vertical ellipsis: provides options to restore the backup, view json details, show backup details, edit the backup to apply labels, duplicate the backup, retry option for a partially successful or failed backups, and to completely delete the backup

    • Activity timeline table for restore: displays specific details of and restores spread across multiple backup locations and namespaces in tabular format. Lists individual backup/restore activities with the following details:

      • RESTORE NAME: the unique identifier for the backup
      • Details: an expand more arrow that gives more information on the restore such as status, activity info, schedule associated with the restore and so on
      • CLUSTER: the cluster to which restore belongs to
      • BACKUP NAME: name of the backup utilized to create the restore
      • APP TYPE: type of application data that was backed up and then restored
      • SIZE: the size of the restore
      • CREATE TIME: the timestamp when the restore was created
      • OWNER: log-in name of the user who initiated the restore
      • Vertical ellipsis: provides options to view json details, show restore details, duplicate the restore, and to completely remove the restore
      note

      If there is no backup/restore created, activity timeline chart/table remains blank without any data.

      note

      If you are on OCP cluster and if you see any data loss in activity timeline table or chart, refer OCP configuration for troubleshooting information.

  • Pagination: navigational controls to move through different pages of the Activity timeline.

  • Error alerts: displays a red bar in the top-right corner of the page to indicate that there is an issue to be troubleshooted

  • Notification alerts: a green bar appears in the top-right corner to notify that the task (adding cloud account, adding backup location, creating a backup, restoring a backup and so on) is successful

Filter by status and time combination

  • In the backup tab, if you select In-Progress option from Filter by status drop-down and choose Last 24 hours from the time filter drop-down, the activity timeline chart/table displays the number of backups that are in in-progress state out of the backups you triggered in the last 24 hours. For example, if you created 10 backups in the last 24 hours out of which 4 backups are in in-progress state the activity timeline chart/table displays only 4 backups along with their details.

  • In the restore tab, if you select Partial success option from Filter by status and choose Last one month from the time filter drop-down, the activity timeline chart/table displays the number of restores that are in partial success state from past one month. In other words, if you have created 26 restores in last one month out of which 3 restores are in partial success state, active timeline table/chart displays only 3 restores and their details.

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