Is there anyway to view how much memory the pods are using etc? some way to enable a nice monitoring console?

There's the dashboard built into RD (unless you're on Linux...), or Rancher https://rancher.com/products/rancher K8s Lens https://k8slens.dev/ Kubenav https://kubenav.io/ k9s cli https://k9scli.io/ I'm sure there are others...

I couldn't see a way to view memory per pod in the rancher dashboard.. ended up deploying prometheus/grafana etc.