Alibaba Cloud product monitoring metrics reference - Cloud Monitor

Lists the monitoring metrics for each Alibaba Cloud product in Cloud Monitor and how to query them through API operations.

Note

Cloud Monitor includes CloudMonitor Basic and Hybrid Cloud Monitoring. For feature differences, see Differences between CloudMonitor Basic and Hybrid Cloud Monitoring.
Metric names in Hybrid Cloud Monitoring are derived from those in CloudMonitor Basic. For more information, see Naming conventions for metrics in Hybrid Cloud Monitoring.
Cloud Monitor provides monitoring services and processes metrics through a management platform deployed in the Chinese mainland.

Metrics

To view the list of cloud service monitoring metrics in Cloud Monitor, go to Metric and Event Center - Basic metrics.

To query monitoring data through Cloud Monitor API operations, use the index table to find the required Namespace, MetricName, Dimensions, and Period values.

Parameter	Value source
Namespace	The part after the `/` in the metric name on the product's Metric List page. For example, in ECS/acs_ecs_dashboard, the namespace is acs_ecs_dashboard.
MetricName	The value from the Metric ID column on the product's Metric List page.
Dimensions	The value from the Dimensions column on the product's Metric List page. You do not need to specify userId in Dimensions. Cloud Monitor automatically uses the current account ID.
Period	The value from the Min Periods column on the product's Metric List page.