Interactive Dashboard
Interactive dashboard is enabled for all Talos platforms except for SBC images.
The dashboard can be disabled with kernel parameter talos.dashboard.disabled=1
.
The dashboard runs only on the physical video console (not serial console) on the 2nd virtual TTY.
The first virtual TTY shows kernel logs same as in Talos <1.4.0.
The virtual TTYs can be switched with <Alt+F1>
and <Alt+F2>
keys.
Keys <F1>
- <Fn>
can be used to switch between different screens of the dashboard.
The dashboard is using either UEFI framebuffer or VGA/VESA framebuffer (for legacy BIOS boot).
For legacy BIOS boot screen resolution can be controlled with the vga=
kernel parameter.
Summary Screen (F1
)
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Interactive Dashboard Summary Screen
The header shows brief information about the node:
- hostname
- Talos version
- uptime
- CPU and memory hardware information
- CPU and memory load, number of processes
Table view presents summary information about the machine:
- UUID (from SMBIOS data)
- Cluster name (when the machine config is available)
- Machine stage:
Installing
,Upgrading
,Booting
,Maintenance
,Running
,Rebooting
,Shutting down
, etc. - Machine stage readiness: checks Talos service status, static pod status, etc. (for
Running
stage) - Machine type: controlplane/worker
- Number of members discovered in the cluster
- Kubernetes version
- Status of Kubernetes components:
kubelet
and Kubernetes controlplane components (only oncontrolplane
machines) - Network information: Hostname, Addresses, Gateway, Connectivity, DNS and NTP servers
Bottom part of the screen shows kernel logs, same as on the virtual TTY 1.
Monitor Screen (F2
)
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Interactive Dashboard Monitor Screen
Monitor screen provides live view of the machine resource usage: CPU, memory, disk, network and processes.
Network Config Screen (F3
)
Note: network config screen is only available for
metal
platform.
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Interactive Dashboard Network Config Screen
Network config screen provides editing capabilities for the metal
platform network configuration.
The screen is split into three sections:
- the leftmost section provides a way to enter network configuration: hostname, DNS and NTP servers, configure the network interface either via DHCP or static IP address, etc.
- the middle section shows the current network configuration.
- the rightmost section shows the network configuration which will be applied after pressing “Save” button.
Once the platform network configuration is saved, it is immediately applied to the machine.