Managed Service for Prometheus uses Grafana dashboards to display metric data. On the Dashboards page, you can view the information about all dashboards of a Prometheus instance and the related core metrics.

Prerequisites

Your service is monitored by Managed Service for Prometheus. For more information, see the following topics:

View the dashboard list

  1. Log on to the ARMS console.
  2. In the left-side navigation pane, choose Prometheus Service > Prometheus Instances.
  3. Click the name of the Prometheus instance to which you want to connect.
  4. In the left-side navigation pane, click Dashboards.
    The Dashboards page displays the information about all Grafana dashboards of the Prometheus instance. The information includes the dashboard name and tags.

    In this example, a Prometheus instance that is created for a Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) cluster is used. You can set the Grafana Workspace parameter to view the dashboard information about a specific workspace.

    ParameterDescription
    NameThe name of the dashboard.
    TagThe tags of the monitored objects.

What to do next

On the Dashboards page, you can perform the following operations:

  • View metrics

    Click the name of a Grafana dashboard. On the page that appears, you can view the real-time metrics on the Grafana dashboard. For more information about the metrics on basic dashboards, see Basic Grafana dashboards.

  • Other supported operations
    Note Different Prometheus instances support different operations. For more information, visit the Managed Service for Prometheus console.
    • Close a dashboard

      Find a Grafana dashboard that you want to close and click Disable in the Actions column. In the dialog box that appears, click Confirm.

    • Delete a dashboard

      Find a Grafana dashboard that you want to delete and click Delete in the Actions column. In the dialog box that appears, click Delete.

    • Upgrade a dashboard: Find a Grafana dashboard whose name is labeled with the New icon and click Upgrade in the Actions column. In the dialog box that appears, click Upgrade.
      Note If you click Upgrade in the Actions column of a dashboard, the dashboard is upgraded to the next version in the sequence of released versions. If you do not upgrade or reset a dashboard to the latest version at the earliest opportunity, the data that is displayed on the current dashboard may be inaccurate.