Alibaba Cloud Prometheus Service 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. You can also upgrade a dashboard based on your business requirements.
Prerequisites
View the dashboard list
Related operations
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.
- View core metrics
Find a Grafana dashboard that you want to view and move the pointer over the icon in the Core Metrics column. Then, the information about the core metrics is displayed. Click View Details. In the Core Metrics dialog box, you can view the type and description of the core metrics.
- Close a dashboard
Find a Grafana dashboard that you want to close and click Closed in the Actions column. In the dialog box that appears, click Closed.
- 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 the version of a dashboard
- 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.
- Reset dashboards: In the upper-right corner of the Dashboards page, click Dashboard reset. In the dialog box that appears, click Reset. Then, all basic dashboards are upgraded to the latest version. For more information, see Reset dashboards.
Note- You can click Upgrade or Dashboard reset to upgrade the version of a dashboard. 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 click Dashboard reset on the Dashboard page, all basic dashboards on the page are directly upgraded to the latest version. 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.
- You cannot reset the dashboards of Prometheus instances for cloud services by clicking Dashboard reset.