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 → <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?

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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