HPE's High-Performance Computing (HPC) management solutions, particularly the modern HPE Cray System Management (CSM) software stack, are designed with an integrated monitoring and alerting framework. This framework commonly utilizes Prometheus for collecting time-series metrics from various cluster components and Grafana as the front-end visualization tool. Grafana provides pre-configured and customizable dashboards that allow administrators to monitor the real-time health, status, and performance of compute nodes, the Slingshot interconnect, storage, and other critical system services. This integration makes Grafana the standard tool for visualization within contemporary HPE HPC environments.

B. PowerBI: This is a Microsoft business intelligence and analytics tool used for creating business-focused reports and dashboards, not for real-time HPC infrastructure monitoring.

C. Adobe Analytics: This is a web analytics service for tracking and reporting website traffic and user engagement, which is entirely unrelated to HPC system management.

D. Citrix Director: This is a monitoring and troubleshooting console specifically for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops environments, not for managing bare-metal HPE HPC clusters.

1. HPE Cray System Management Operations Guide for CSM 1.6.0 (Document ID: S-8011-160

Published: November 2023). Chapter 10

"System Monitoring and Alerts

" Section 10.1

"Monitoring Dashboards

" explicitly states: "The HPE Cray System Management software includes pre-configured Grafana dashboards for monitoring the health of the system. Access Grafana to view these dashboards."

2. HPE Performance Cluster Manager 1.5 Administration Guide (Document ID: a00098204enus

Published: October 2020). Chapter 11

"Monitoring

" discusses the architecture for monitoring which involves collecting time-series data and using a visualization tool. Grafana is the industry-standard tool used in such integrations for creating dashboards from data sources like InfluxDB or Prometheus

which HPCM supports.