We can check both hardware and software resources on the dashboard. For example, to take a look at the nodes a cluster, click on Nodes under the Cluster section in the left-hand menu; every node in the current cluster will be shown on the page, with some basic information:

Your result on screen may be different from the preceding screenshot, since it will be based on your environment. Go ahead and click on the name of one node; even more details will be shown. Some of them are illustrated in beautiful graphs:

To show software resources, let's take a look at the one holding this dashboard. In the left-hand menu, change the Namespace to kube-system and click Overview, which gathers all the resources under this Namespace. It is easy to find out any issue by putting resources together on a single page with a clear diagram:

There's more; click on the Deployments kubernetes-dashboard, and then click the small text-file icon on the right side of the only pod in the replica set. You can see the logs for the container:

Now, we have seen that Kubernetes dashboard provides a brilliant interface for displaying resource status, covering nodes, Kubernetes workloads and controllers, and the application log.