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Exploring Edge Data

Let's explore the data that Edge is generating.

Back to Monitoring
  • Near Edge's top left, click on the Monitor tab to give it focus again.

Look at the at-a-glance info at the top of the Monitor tab: Teleport At a Glance

You can explore the data that Edge is generating in either of two ways: Via the Explore link on the submenu under Manage, or by clicking on the Explore buttons in the at-a-glance view. Let's explore a bit...

Running Processes

  1. Click Explore on the submenu below Manage. This will take you to the Explore page's Processes tab. You should see a number of processes that are running on the Edge Node (which is a container called edge-baddev-<hash>). (If you don't see them immediately, don't worry, it may take a few seconds for them to appear.)

  2. Click on any of the processes to open a drawer that shows some basic information on the process, including CPU, Memory, and IO graphs for that process (along separate tabs).

  3. Click on the All details link near the lower right.

    Suddenly, it looks like someone just pulled all the info for that process out of /proc, and printed it out in tabular format. Whoa! That's info that's not readily available without ssh'ing to the machine. Troubleshooting across multiple systems just got easier...

  4. Click the Process drawer's upper-right X close box to dismiss the tab.

In the sandbox environment, which is somewhat open to the world at large, we're not enabling the container discovery, as it provides a bit too much information for us to expose about the internal workings of the system. However, if we did, the Explore page's Containers tab would show you info about all of the containers running on the host.

Now let's look at the Files tab...

Files

  1. Click on the Files tab.

    You're seeing the log files that Edge has auto-discovered. We're running in a containerized environment, so you're seeing only the logs that are open within the container. At the moment, this means just the Edge logs.

  2. Click on any of the files that show up there.

    In the resulting File browser modal, you should now see a representation of all of the lines in the file you chose, looking very similar to the Stream's log viewer. Here, the upper search bar provides full-text search. As in Stream, the time picker to its right restricts how much data is shown (by time). Feel free to play around with this File modal!

Finally, we'll exit out of the log file browser, and take a look at this page's final tab, System State.

Host Info
  1. Click the File browser modal's upper-right X close box to dismiss it. (You can also just press Escape.)
  2. Click on the System State tab.

You should see a combined graph and table view of information about the Edge Node. Environment variables, network interfaces, OS info, and hardware info – all available by selecting among the left tabs.

We encourage you to take a little time to explore the tabs here, and the information contained in them. When you're done exploring, let's learn how to install a new Node...