Checking Browser Health and Resource Consumption for Rancher

Article Number: 000021616

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  → <check each entry> → 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?