Customize default graph selections in monitoring section

[eberhab]

Hi everyone,

We are running Rancher 2.7 and just installed the monitoring (prometheus-operator/kube-prometheus) chart for our clusters. After installing the monitoring chart, the dashboard displays a pre-defined set of Grafana graphs oob. While this is very convenient and basically happens at the push of a single button, the default selection of graphs isn’t what we usually want to see and we’d like to modify the selection.

In more detail: After installing the prom monitoring chart, the Rancher cluster dashboard offers the following manual customization options: [“Cluster Metrics”, “Kubernetes Components Metrics”, “Etcd Metrics”], {“Range”: “5m”, “Refresh”: “30s”}. We would like to permanently define these values to always display the “Cluster Metrics” of the last “1h” Range and refresh only every “5m”.

The current solution is to perform the selection by hand, at the time we open the dashboard. Preferably there would be a configmap or such, to re-define these defaults which are currently hardcoded.

Your consideration would be much appreciated!