Ascend resource pool overview
Updated at：2025-10-27
Prerequisites
- The CCE Ascend MindX DL component has been installed
- Accessed monitoring instances
- Collection tasks need to be enabled. For details, refer to the document: Access Monitoring Instance and Enable Collection Tasks
Application method
- Sign in to Cloud Container Engine Console (CCE).
- Click Cluster Management on the left sidebar. In the Cluster List, select the Cluster Name you need. Under Actions - More on the right, click Prometheus Monitoring to navigate to the Prometheus Monitoring Service.
- In the options at the bottom of the Prometheus Monitoring Page, select Cloud-Native AI Monitoring, then select Ascend Resource Pool Overview.
Ascend resource pool overview is shown below
You can click the button in the upper right corner to set monitoring time, manual refresh, and automatic refresh by yourself.
Detailed explanation of ascend resource pool overview
Node usage
| Monitoring items | Description |
|---|---|
| Total node count | All nodes in cluster |
| Allocated node count | Nodes with 0 available NPU cards |
| Idle node count | Nodes with NPU card count > 0, including tainted nodes |
| Unavailable node count | Cordoned or not ready nodes |
Cluster card allocation
| Monitoring items | Description |
|---|---|
| Total GPU cards | NPU cards across all nodes in the cluster |
| Allocated cards | Allocated and in-use NPU cards |
| Idle GPU cards | Nodes with NPU card count > 0, including idle GPU cards of tainted nodes |
| Unavailable GPU cards | Idle GPU cards across nodes in the cluster |
GPU card usage
| Monitoring items | Description |
|---|---|
| Average GPU card utilization rate | Real-time average utilization rate of NPU cards across all nodes in the current cluster, average utilization rate of NPU cards = sum (utilization rate of NPU cards across all nodes) / GPU cards across all nodes) |
| Average memory utilization rate of GPU card | Real-time average memory utilization rate of NPU cards across all nodes in the current cluster, average memory utilization rate = sum (memory utilization rate of NPU cards across all nodes) / NPU cards across all nodes) |
CPU & memory
| Monitoring items | Description |
|---|---|
| CPU core count | Total CPU core count in the current cluster |
| Average CPU utilization rate | Real-time average utilization rate of all CPUs in the current cluster |
| Total memory | Total memory of the current cluster |
| Average memory utilization rate | Real-time average utilization rate of all memory in the current cluster |
NPU node information
| Monitoring items | Description |
|---|---|
| Node name | Names of nodes in the current cluster |
| Card type | Card types in the current cluster |
| CPU utilization rate | Real-time average utilization rate of all CPUs in the current node |
| Memory utilization rate | Real-time average utilization rate of all memory in the current node |
| CPU core count | Total CPU core count in the current node |
| Total memory | Total memory of the current node |
| Total number of cards | Total number of NPU cards on the current node |
| Average NPU utilization rate | Average utilization rate of NPU cards on nodes in the current cluster |
| Count of NPU-Pods | Count of NPU-occupied Pods on the current node |
| Allocated cards | NPU cards allocated on nodes in the current cluster |
| Average NPU memory utilization rate | Average utilization rate of NPU memoery on nodes in the current cluster |
NPU-occupied workload information
| Monitoring items | Description |
|---|---|
| Workload type | Type of NPU-occupied workloads in the current cluster |
| Name of workload | Name of NPU-occupied workloads in the current cluster |
| Namespace | Namespace of NPU-occupied workloads in the current cluster |
| Allocated NPU cards | Count of NPU cards allocated to NPU-occupied workloads in the current cluster |
| Average memory utilization rate | Real-time average memory utilization rate of all NPU cards of NPU-occupied workloads in current cluster |
| Average NPU utilization rate | Real-time average utilization rate of NPU cards in NPU-occupied workloads in current cluster |
| Memory usage | Memory usage of NPU-occupied workloads in the current cluster |
| CPU core count | CPU core count of NPU-occupied workloads in the current cluster |
