Cloud Monitor provides the dashboard feature. You can customize the monitoring data that a dashboard displays and view the monitoring data on the dashboard. If the default Elastic Compute Service (ECS) dashboard of Cloud Monitor cannot meet your business needs, you can create a dashboard and add monitoring charts to view custom monitoring data. You can also modify or delete the dashboard.

Create a dashboard

  1. Log on to theCloud Monitor console.
  2. In the left-side navigation pane, choose Dashboard > Custom Dashboard.
  3. On the Dashboards page, click Create Dashboard in the upper-right corner.
  4. In the Create Dashboard dialog box, enter a dashboard name.
  5. Click Create.
    You are redirected to the newly created dashboard. You can then add monitoring charts to the dashboard as needed. For more information, see Add a monitoring chart.

Modify the dashboard

  1. Log on to theCloud Monitor console.
  2. In the left-side navigation pane, choose Dashboard > Custom Dashboard.
  3. Select the dashboard from the Dashboards drop-down list.
  4. Move the pointer over the name of the dashboard and Edit appears on the right.
  5. Click Edit.
  6. Enter the dashboard name.
  7. Click OK.

Delete the dashboard

Notice If you delete a dashboard, all the monitoring charts in the dashboard are deleted. Proceed with caution.
  1. Log on to theCloud Monitor console.
  2. In the left-side navigation pane, choose Dashboard > Custom Dashboard.
  3. Select the dashboard from the Dashboards drop-down list.
  4. Click Delete Dashboard in the upper-right corner.
  5. In the Confirm dialog box, click Confirm.