Installing UI extensions

To install UI extensions, enable the UI extensions from the rancher UI.

Install

After enabling UI extensions, follow these steps:

  1. Navigate to extensions on the rancher UI and under the "Available" section of extensions, you will find the Observability extension.

  2. Install the Observability extension.

  3. Once installed, on the left panel of the rancher UI, the SUSE® Observability section appears.

  4. Navigate to the SUSE® Observability section and select "configurations". In this section, you can add the SUSE® Observability server details and connect it.

  5. Follow the instructions as mentioned in Obtain a service token section below and fill in the details.

Obtain a service token

  1. Log into the SUSE® Observability instance.

  2. From the top left corner, select CLI.

  3. Note the API token and install SUSE® Observability cli on your local machine.

  4. Create a service token by running

sts service-token create --name suse-observability-extension --roles stackstate-k8s-troubleshooter

SUSE® Observability Rancher UI extension compatibility matrix

UI Extension Version Supported Rancher Version

0.x.x

2.8

1.x.x

2.9

2.x.x

2.10
2.11
2.12