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Select a Controller

Cluster network usage is accessed by selecting a Controller.

Controller concept​

A Controller is a Spider agent controlling capture agents (Whisperers and Gociphers) spawned in a Kubernetes cluster.
Selecting a Controller allows you to access the network usage of the Cluster, that is:

  • Captured by Gociphers, in Linux kernel
  • Enriched by Controllers, using Kubernetes API

Select a Controller​

To select a Controller,

  1. Click the Controller icon on the menu
  2. Select the Controller you want to access data from by clicking on the radio button
  3. If you don’t find it (only the first 20 are displayed), you may search by partial name, id…

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The dropdown shows you the status of the Controller:

  • Connected
  • Disconnected

👉 Select a Controller to continue

Once selected​

The selected Controller is shown in a badge in the top left of the screen.

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The top left status icon adapts to the selected Controller.

  • Connected (above)
  • Disconnected (below)

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Depending on the view and mode selected, the timeline is refreshed, the cluster map is rendered, the grid lists usages...

Next page lists available Views and Modes of Network Usage.