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Checking Browser Health and Resource Consumption for Rancher

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Environment

SUSE Rancher 2.9.x+

Situation

Should you need to check the browser health (performance) and resource consumption for Rancher, this article explains the steps to do so.

Resolution

Check the following aspects:

  • CPU
  • Go to ⋮ → More Tools  → Task Manager
  • Monitor the CPU column. Is it constantly at 100?
  • Memory
  • Go to ⋮ → More Tools  → Task Manager
    • Monitor the Memory footprint column. Is it constantly higher than 400 MB? What does it peak at? Does it drop down after a minute?
  • Go to ⋮ → More Tools  → Developer Tools → Memory Tab
    • Monitor the Total JS heap size. Is it constantly higher than 100 MB?
  • Web Socket traffic
  • Go to ⋮ → More Tools  → Developer Tools  → Network Tab  → WS  → → Messages Tab
  • Are there hundreds of messages per second?
  • Errors or spammed messages
  • Go to More Tools  → Developer Tools  → Console Tab
  • Are there Error entries?
  • Are there lots and lots of messages?

Additional Information

You should take a note of all this information and report back to the Rancher Support team via a support ticket if you need any further analysis.

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