Using Monitoring Dashboards
In the monitoring dashboard, you can view the operational status and event status of monitored services and resources, as well as the top usage items.
Getting Started with Monitoring Dashboard
When you navigate from the Samsung Cloud Platform Console to the Cloud Monitoring Console page, the monitoring dashboard is displayed. If you are on a different page, click Cloud Monitoring Console > Monitoring Dashboard to go to the Monitoring Dashboard page.
The monitoring dashboard is structured as follows.
| Item | description |
|---|---|
| Data reference time | Display the reference time for the data shown on the dashboard |
| Refresh | Refresh the dashboard based on the current time |
| Automatic refresh | You can enable or disable the dashboard refresh feature. |
| Period setting | Set the data retrieval period or change the refresh interval |
| Monitoring Status | Display the number of monitoring targets and monitoring status for each service |
| Event History | Display the number of events that occurred in the last 7 days as a graph by severity. |
| Top 5 usage rates by performance | Display the usage rates of the five monitoring targets with the highest usage for each major performance metric as a usage graph. |
| Event map | Display the number of events per service by severity |
| Event status | Display the list of unprocessed events among the occurred events. |
- The monitoring dashboard is automatically created when an Account is created in the Samsung Cloud Platform Console and cannot be deleted arbitrarily.
- Configuration widgets on the monitoring dashboard cannot be modified arbitrarily.
- To create a dashboard with a specific widget, use a custom dashboard. For more information about custom dashboards, refer to Using Custom Dashboards.
Explore Common Dashboard Features
This describes the functions available on the dashboard.
Download widget image
Click the download button at the top right of the widget area to download the widget as an image file (*.png).
View graph details
When you place the mouse cursor over the graph, detailed information appears as a popup.
Monitoring Status
Shows the number of monitoring targets and their monitoring status for each service in use.
| Item | description |
|---|---|
| Service Category | Display the monitoring target service categories per service and the quantity of monitoring targets included in each service category
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| Service List | Display the list and quantity of services included in the monitoring target service category
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| Monitoring status | Displays the number of monitoring targets and their current status
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| Event status | Displays the number of current events by grade (Fetal, Warning, Inform). |
- Performance collection in monitoring mode aggregates and displays the number of performance metrics from both Agent and Agentless approaches.
Event History
Displays the number of events that occurred in the last 7 days as a graph by severity.
When you place the mouse cursor over the graph, a popup shows the number of occurrences of events corresponding to the selected date’s event risk level, along with active/inactive information.
- Occurrence: total number of event occurrences
- Activation: The state where an event that has occurred by meeting the event trigger conditions continues to be maintained.
- Deactivation: The event that occurred no longer meets the event trigger conditions and has returned to a normal state
You can click the risk legend area to hide or unhide the corresponding graph.
Top 5 Usage by Performance
Displays a usage graph for the five monitoring targets with the highest utilization rates across major performance categories.
- When you place the mouse cursor over the graph, a popup displays the full name of the selected item and its current performance metrics.
- When you click the graph, a Monitoring Target Details popup window for the corresponding item opens.
Item description CPU Usage/Core [Basic] Percentage of CPU time used, excluding Idle and IOWait states Memory Used [Basic] Current memory usage Disk Read Bytes [Basic] Disk read byte count Disk Write Bytes [Basic] Disk write byte count
- The monitoring dashboard only displays the performance of Virtual Server. To show the Top 5 performance of other service types, you need to select and configure them in a custom dashboard.
Event Map
Displays the number of events per service by severity.
- When you place the mouse cursor over the rectangle, the name of the monitoring target appears as a popup.
- When you click a service item on the event map, the Monitoring Target Details popup window opens.
The risk level for each item is as follows.
| Item | description |
|---|---|
| No Rule | The condition cannot be classified as normal or abnormal. This indicates that the status cannot be assessed due to the absence of a threshold setting. |
| NORMAL | It is in a normal state. This means the threshold did not meet the configured value, so no event was generated. |
| INFORM | This is the lowest level of risk status, including information at a simple notification level. |
| WARNING | It is a moderate risk condition. |
| FATAL | This is the most dangerous stage. |
Event Status
Displays a list of events that are in an active state among the generated events.
- Events are displayed in order of most recent occurrence.