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Cloud Architect Design Tools:Intelligent monitoring dashboard

Last Updated:Jun 08, 2026

The intelligent monitoring dashboard in Cloud Architect Design Tools (CADT) lets you build real-time, no-code visual dashboards to monitor production, equipment, and safety metrics from connected IoT (Internet of Things) devices.

The intelligent monitoring dashboard is a large-screen visualization feature in CADT. Connect your IoT device data, arrange panels, and display live metrics — no coding required. Operations teams can monitor equipment status, track production KPIs, and respond to anomalies from a single screen.

Use cases

  • Production monitoring: Display real-time throughput, equipment uptime, and process efficiency metrics across a factory floor or production line.

  • Safety monitoring: Track environmental sensors, alarm states, and safety thresholds for facilities that require continuous compliance oversight.

  • Equipment status overview: Aggregate device health signals from multiple assets into a unified dashboard so operators can identify failures without switching between systems.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, ensure that you have:

  • An active Alibaba Cloud account with CADT access enabled

  • IoT devices connected and reporting data to Alibaba Cloud IoT Platform or a compatible data source

  • Permissions to create and publish dashboards in CADT

How it works

  1. Create a dashboard in CADT and give it a descriptive name.

  2. Add panels to the dashboard canvas. Each panel displays one metric or visualization type (line chart, gauge, table, or alert indicator).

  3. Bind each panel to a data source — an IoT device property, a time-series dataset, or a custom API endpoint.

  4. Configure refresh intervals so the dashboard updates at a frequency appropriate for your monitoring scenario.

  5. Publish the dashboard and share the URL with the operators or managers who need to view it.

After publishing, the dashboard runs in full-screen mode and refreshes automatically at the configured interval.

Get started

To create your first intelligent monitoring dashboard:

  1. Log in to the CADT console.

  2. In the left navigation pane, choose Monitoring Dashboard.

  3. On the Monitoring Dashboard page, click Create Dashboard.

  4. Enter a name for the dashboard, then click OK.

  5. In the dashboard editor, click Add Panel and select a visualization type.

  6. In the panel settings, select a data source and configure the display options.

  7. Repeat steps 5–6 until all required metrics are displayed.

  8. Click Publish to make the dashboard available to your team.