Ceph Dashboard

Overview

The Ceph Dashboard is a built-in web-based Ceph management and monitoring application to administer various aspects and objects of the cluster. It is implemented as a Ceph Manager module.

Enabling and Starting the Dashboard

If you want to start the dashboard from within a development environment, you need to have built Ceph (see the toplevel README.md file and the developer documentation <https://ceph.readthedocs.io/en/latest/dev/quick_guide/>_ for details on how to accomplish this.

If you use the vstart.sh script to start up your development cluster, it will configure and enable the dashboard automatically. The URL and login credentials are displayed when the script finishes.

Please see the Ceph Dashboard documentation <https://ceph.readthedocs.io/en/latest/mgr/dashboard/>_ for details on how to enable and configure the dashboard manually and how to configure other settings, e.g. access to the Ceph object gateway.

Working on the Dashboard Code

If you're interested in helping with the development of the dashboard, please see /doc/dev/dev_guide/dash_devel.rst or the online version <https://ceph.readthedocs.io/en/latest/dev/developer_guide/dash-devel/>_ for details on how to set up a development environment and other development-related topics.