Visualize Metrics

With the Monitoring service, you can visualize your metrics using customizable charts. You can analyze the load on the system, CPU usage, the throughput rate, the number of HTTP requests over a period of time, RAM usage, and so on. The Monitoring service allows you to:

  • accumulate statistical data that you can filter using custom criteria.
  • represent this data as a collection of informative visualizations for better monitoring, for troubleshooting, and for analysis of your system performance.

The service helps you detect abnormal activities that need to be eliminated.

On the Dashboards page of the Monitoring service, you can:

  • create and edit charts,
  • re-arrange the charts on the dashboard,
  • change the time range for each chart,
  • refresh a chart if the related data has changed,
  • filter metric records by their properties,
  • and expand the charts that you want to focus on, in particular.

Before you start creating visualizations, you must upload the metrics to the Monitoring service using a monitoring agent or the SDK.

To create a new chart:

  1. On the Dashboards page, in Source, select the source for the metrics you plan to visualize.
  2. Click Get Started if you do not have any charts yet.

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    Click Add New Chart.

  3. In Select Metrics, select the metric that you plan to visualize. A new chart with the default configurations is created.

On the Dashboards page, on the panel with the required chart, click and select the following options:

Option Description
Configure Use this option to set the chart configuration properties (aggregation method, y-axis label, chart title, chart size, and line color).
Filter

Use this option to apply filters to a chart. In the Filters dialog, click Add, and then select the required filter. Select an operator for the filter (for example, is, is not, is one of, is not one of, exists, not exists) and enter a value for the operator, if and when the corresponding field appears.

The filters you added are then displayed on the panel with the chart.
Move

Use this option to move a panel to another area on the dashboard.
Full Width/Half Width Use this option to resize a chart.
Refresh Use this option to update a chart manually. You can also click on the Dashboards page if you want to refresh all the charts on the dashboard.
Remove Use this option to remove a chart from the dashboard.

To clear the Monitoring service of the metrics that are no longer required, you can purge them.

To purge metrics:

  1. On the Dashboards page, click . The Purge Metrics dialog is displayed.
  2. In Delete metrics older than, select the number of days. The metrics reported before the number of days you entered are removed.

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    In Delete metrics older than, select Delete All to purge all metrics. Select Drop source if you want to remove the current source from the service. This operation removes all the data from the source (metrics, logs, events, log access rules).

  3. Click Purge, and then click Yes.