Differences in the number of running Pods on the dashboard

[mrgrvs]

Hi!

What do we have

Dashboard on which the status of the openshift cluster is displayed and it have two tiles - Custom Charts.

1) One Custom Chart display metric -  "Kubernetes workloads - Pods" and  filtered by "Pod Phase" = "Running"

2) Second Custom Chart display metric - "Kubernetes namespaces - Running pods"

Metrics are limited to one ManagementZone

Please tell me why data in these metrics differ?

In "Kubernetes workloads - Pods" we see 100 pods with the "Running" status, while in "Kubernetes namespaces - Running pods" we see 100 pods with DeploymentType = DeploymentConfig and 2-3 DeploymentType = CronJob for example.

Why is the "Running Pods" metric not the same as the Pods metric with filtered "Pod phase" = Running ?

Thanks!

[ChadTurner · Accepted solution]

Kubernetes workloads are applications running on Kubernetes. Whether your workload is a single component or several that work together, on Kubernetes you run it inside a set of pods.

Kubernetes namespaces are virtual clusters backed by the same physical cluster.