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CloudMonitor:Appendix 1: Metrics

Last Updated:Nov 06, 2023

This topic describes how to use the metrics in CloudMonitor and provides links for you to view the metrics of various Alibaba Cloud services.

Note

For more information about the metrics of Hybrid Cloud Monitoring, see Naming conventions for monitoring metrics in Hybrid Cloud Monitoring.

Usage notes

If you need to call CloudMonitor API operations, you can click the links in the following table to view the parameters of the metrics for Alibaba Cloud services. The parameters include Namespace, MetricName, Dimensions, and Period.

Parameter

Value source

Namespace

The content following / in the table header on the Metric List page of the cloud service. For example, acs_ecs_dashboard in Elastic Compute Service (ECS)/acs_ecs_dashboard is the namespace of ECS metrics.

MetricName

The Metric ID column on the Metric List page of the cloud service.

Dimensions

The Dimensions column on the Metric List page of the cloud service.

When you call API operations, you do not need to specify userId in the Dimensions column. CloudMonitor automatically obtains the ID of the current account and enters it in userId.

Period

The Min Periods column on the Metric List page of the cloud service.

Metrics for Alibaba Cloud services

Category

Alibaba Cloud service

Elastic computing

Analytics

Message queue

Artificial intelligence (AI)

Database

Others

Storage and CDN

Cloud communications

Monitoring and management

ActionTrail

Video services

Big data

Network

Application services

Security