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Monitoring health information for application resources and deployments

The Red Hat OpenShift GitOps Environments page in the Developer perspective of the OpenShift Container Platform web console shows a list of the successful deployments of the application environments, along with links to the revision for each deployment.

The Application environments page in the Developer perspective of the OpenShift Container Platform web console displays the health status of the application resources, such as routes, synchronization status, deployment configuration, and deployment history.

The environments pages in the Developer perspective of the OpenShift Container Platform web console are decoupled from the Red Hat OpenShift GitOps Application Manager command-line interface (CLI), kam. You do not have to use kam to generate Application Environment manifests for the environments to show up in the Developer perspective of the OpenShift Container Platform web console. You can use your own manifests, but the environments must still be represented by namespaces. In addition, specific labels and annotations are still needed.

Settings for environment labels and annotations

This section provides reference settings for environment labels and annotations required to display an environment application in the Environments page, in the Developer perspective of the Red Hat OpenShift GitOps web console.

Environment labels

The environment application manifest must contain labels.openshift.gitops/environment and destination.namespace fields. You must set identical values for the <environment_name> variable and the name of the environment application manifest.

Specification of the environment application manifest
spec:
  labels:
    openshift.gitops/environment: <environment_name>
  destination:
    namespace: <environment_name>
...
Example of an environment application manifest
apiVersion: argoproj.io/v1alpha1
kind: Application
metadata:
  name: dev-env (1)
  namespace: openshift-gitops
spec:
  labels:
    openshift.gitops/environment: dev-env
  destination:
    namespace: dev-env
...
1 The name of the environment application manifest. The value set is the same as the value of the <environment_name> variable.

Environment annotations

The environment namespace manifest must contain the annotations.app.openshift.io/vcs-uri and annotations.app.openshift.io/vcs-ref fields to specify the version controller code source of the application. You must set identical values for the <environment_name> variable and the name of the environment namespace manifest.

Specification of the environment namespace manifest
apiVersion: v1
kind: Namespace
metadata:
  annotations:
    app.openshift.io/vcs-uri: <application_source_url>
    app.openshift.io/vcs-ref: <branch_reference>
  name: <environment_name> (1)
...
1 The name of the environment namespace manifest. The value set is the same as the value of the <environment_name> variable.
Example of an environment namespace manifest
apiVersion: v1
kind: Namespace
metadata:
  annotations:
    app.openshift.io/vcs-uri: https://example.com/<your_domain>/<your_gitops.git>
    app.openshift.io/vcs-ref: main
  labels:
    argocd.argoproj.io/managed-by: openshift-gitops
  name: dev-env
...

Checking health information

The Red Hat OpenShift GitOps Operator will install the GitOps backend service in the openshift-gitops namespace.

Prerequisites

  • The Red Hat OpenShift GitOps Operator is installed from OperatorHub.

  • Ensure that your applications are synchronized by Argo CD.

Procedure

  1. Click Environments under the Developer perspective. The Environments page shows the list of applications along with their Environment status.

  2. Hover over the icons under the Environment status column to see the synchronization status of all the environments.

  3. Click the application name from the list to view the details of a specific application.

  4. In the Application environments page, if the Resources section under the Overview tab displays icons, hover over the icons to get status details.

    • A broken heart indicates that resource issues have degraded the application’s performance.

    • A yellow yield sign indicates that resource issues have delayed data about the application’s health.

  5. To view the deployment history of an application, click the Deployment History tab. The page includes details such as the Last deployment, Description (commit message), Environment, Author, and Revision.