information and statistics about the Ceph cluster using a web server hosted by
``ceph-mgr``.
-The dashboard currently provides insight into the following aspects of your
-cluster:
+The dashboard currently provides the following features to monitor and manage
+various aspects of your Ceph cluster:
+* **Username/password protection**: The Dashboard can only be accessed by
+ providing a configurable username and password.
* **Overall cluster health**: Displays the overall cluster status, storage
utilization (e.g. number of objects, raw capacity, usage per pool), a list of
- pools and their status and usage statistics, access to the cluster log file.
+ pools and their status and usage statistics.
+* **Cluster logs**: Display the latest updates to the cluster's event and audit
+ log files.
* **Hosts**: Provides a list of all hosts associated to the cluster, which
services are running and which version of Ceph is installed.
* **Performance counters**: Displays detailed service-specific statistics for
and usage histograms for read/write operations.
* **iSCSI**: Lists all hosts that run the TCMU runner service, displaying all
images and their performance characteristics (read/write ops, traffic).
-* **RBD**: Lists all RBD images and their properties (size, objects, features)
- in a given pool.
+* **RBD**: Lists all RBD images and their properties (size, objects, features).
+ Create, modify and delete RBD images. Create, delete and rollback snapshots of
+ selected images, protect/unprotect these snapshots against modification.
* **RBD mirroring**: Lists all active sync daemons and their status, pools and
RBD images including their synchronization state.
* **CephFS**: Lists all active filesystem clients and associated pools,