Camel Dashboard

Camel Dashboard is a Kubernetes operator that you can use to monitor your fleet of Camel applications deployed in the cloud. Whether you use Camel K to deploy or not, the Dashboard is a great tool that you can use to monitor your Camel fleet.

the project is in developer preview mode.

The Camel Dashboard was originally born as a spin off from Camel K Synthetic Integrations features and matured into a brand new operator whose goal is to provide a meaningful set of information about typical KPIs of your fleet of Camel workloads running on the cloud.

From Camel K version 2.10.0 onward, the applications deployed by the operator will be automatically instructed with the labels required by the Dashboard to discover and monitor. This is controlled via a Kubernetes label injected to the Deployments (or CronJob or KnativeService) configured on the operator side with the environment variable CAMEL_DASHBOARD_APP_LABEL (set by default to camel.apache.org/app).

On the Camel Dashboard side, any application containing the label will be watched and monitored providing a set of useful Camel metrics (for example, health, number of exchanges succeeded, failed, …​).

You will need to include the camel-observability-services component into your application in order to get the full power of this monitoring tool. As an example:

apiVersion: camel.apache.org/v1
kind: Integration
metadata:
  name: sample-it
spec:
  dependencies:
    - mvn:org.apache.camel.quarkus:camel-quarkus-observability-services
  flows:
    - route:
        id: send-5-messages
        from:
          uri: "timer:tick?repeatCount=5"
          steps:
            - setBody:
                simple: "Hello!"
            - to: "log:myLogger"
  traits:
    # We need a provide any version supporting camel-observability-services
    camel:
      runtimeProvider: plain-quarkus
      runtimeVersion: 3.30.8

The information will be stored in a Custom Resource provided by the Camel Dashboard installation procedure: CamelApp. Here a basic example:

$ kubectl get camelapp -w

NAME           IMAGE                                              PHASE     REPLICAS   HEALTHY   MONITORED   INFO                        EXCHANGE SLI   LAST EXCHANGE
camel-sample   10.104.35.69/camel-k/camel-k-kit-d67egl6snmec...   Running   1          True      True        Quarkus - 3.30.8 (4.16.0)                  4m3s

More in detail, the specific info are stored in the custom resource status:

$ kubectl get camelapp -o yaml
apiVersion: v1
items:
- apiVersion: camel.apache.org/v1alpha1
  kind: CamelApp
  metadata:
    annotations:
      camel.apache.org/imported-from-kind: Deployment
      camel.apache.org/imported-from-name: sample-it
...
  status:
    conditions:
    - lastTransitionTime: "2026-02-18T08:32:59Z"
      message: Success
      reason: MonitoringComplete
      status: "True"
      type: Monitored
    - lastTransitionTime: "2026-02-18T08:32:59Z"
      message: All pods are reported as healthy.
      reason: HealthCheckCompleted
      status: "True"
      type: Healthy
    image: 10.104.35.69/camel-k/camel-k-kit-d67egl6snmec73e6oqgg@sha256:0ba2fdcc091c62e2a121ebe795d59cb42e34af176b84398e40862bf2fb09c3d1
    info: Quarkus - 3.30.8 (4.16.0)
    phase: Running
    pods:
    - internalIp: 10.244.0.225
      name: sample-it-75c5fd6c6f-wfbc7
      observe:
        healthEndpoint: observe/health
        healthPort: 9876
        metricsEndpoint: observe/metrics
        metricsPort: 9876
      ready: true
      runtime:
        camelVersion: 4.16.0
        exchange:
          lastTimestamp: "2026-02-18T08:27:28Z"
          succeed: 5
          total: 5
        runtimeProvider: Quarkus
        runtimeVersion: 3.30.8
        status: UP
      status: Running
      uptimeTimestamp: "2026-02-18T08:26:57Z"
    replicas: 1
    sliExchangeSuccessRate:
      lastTimestamp: "2026-02-18T08:27:28Z"
      samplingInterval: 60000000000
Camel K won’t require the availability of Camel Dashboard to work, neither Camel Dashboard would require Camel K, they are independent projects which can cooperate to provide a Build and Monitoring tool.

Learn more by reading the official Camel Dashboard documentation.

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