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.
Create a dashboard
- Log on to theCloud Monitor console.
- In the left-side navigation pane, choose .
- On the Dashboards page, click Create Dashboard in the upper-right corner.
- In the Create Dashboard dialog box, enter a dashboard name.
- 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.
Add a monitoring chart
- Log on to theCloud Monitor console.
- In the left-side navigation pane, choose .
- On the page that appears, select the dashboard to which you want to add a monitoring
chart from the Dashboards drop-down list.
- In the upper-right corner, click Add View.
- In the Add View panel, select a chart type and metrics.
Parameter |
Description |
Chart Type |
Supported types include line charts, area charts, tables, heat maps, and pie charts. |
Select Metrics |
You can select cloud service metrics, log monitoring metrics, or custom metrics.
- Cloud service metrics: the metrics of Alibaba Cloud services. For more information,
see Cloud service monitoring.
- Custom metrics: the metrics that you add by using the custom monitoring feature. For
more information, see Overview.
|
- Click Save.
View monitoring charts
- Log on to theCloud Monitor console.
- In the left-side navigation pane, choose .
- On the page that appears, select the dashboard whose monitoring charts you want to
view from the Dashboard drop-down list.
- Select the time range of the monitoring charts.
Note You can query the monitoring data of only the last 30 days.
- View the monitoring charts.
- Click Full Screen in the upper-right corner. You can view all the monitoring charts of the dashboard
in full-screen mode.
- Click Refresh in the upper-right corner. You can refresh all monitoring charts of the dashboard
in real time.