Metrics do not display in operator Grafana dashboard

Symptoms

One of the dashboards in the Grafana service, the Event Streams Operators dashboard, does not display metrics.

Causes

The Event Streams metrics are not provided to Prometheus.

Resolving the problem

Add the following PodMonitor to your namespace where Event Streams is installed.

1. in the OpenShift Container Platform web console, go to Search in the navigation on the left.
2. Search for PosMonitor in Resources.
3. Click Create PodMonitor.

4. Add the following snippet, and replace <namespace> with the namespace where your Event Streams is installed:

   apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
   kind: PodMonitor
   metadata:
     name: operator-metrics
     namespace: <namespace>
   spec:
     podMetricsEndpoints:
       - port: metrics
         scheme: http
     selector:
       matchLabels:
         app.kubernetes.io/name: eventstreams-operator
         eventstreams.ibm.com/kind: cluster-operator
   

5. Click Create. The Event Streams Operators dashboard will display metrics after a few minutes.