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Cloud Monitor:Naming conventions for monitoring metrics in Hybrid Cloud Monitoring

Last Updated:Jun 18, 2026

Hybrid Cloud Monitoring uses modified metric names derived from CloudMonitor Basic. Learn about the applicable scenarios, naming conventions, and examples.

Scenarios

These naming conventions apply only to monitoring metrics of Alibaba Cloud services in Hybrid Cloud Monitoring.

Naming conventions for monitoring metrics

Monitoring metrics in Hybrid Cloud Monitoring follow the format: AliyunNamespace_Metric.

Note

For information about cloud services and their monitoring metrics in CloudMonitor Basic, see MetricName in Appendix 1: Metrics for Alibaba Cloud products.

Rules for changing the namespaces of cloud services

Compared with CloudMonitor Basic, namespaces in Hybrid Cloud Monitoring are changed based on the following rules:

  • The prefix acs_ is removed.

  • The suffix _dashboard is removed.

  • The underscore (_) in the middle is removed.

  • The first letter of the cloud service abbreviation is uppercase and all other letters are lowercase.

Rules for changing the names of monitoring metrics

Compared with CloudMonitor Basic, metric names (MetricName) in Hybrid Cloud Monitoring are changed based on the following rules:

  • Symbols other than underscores (_), letters, and digits are replaced with underscores (_).

  • The letter case remains unchanged.

Examples of changes in metric names

The following table shows how metric names from CloudMonitor Basic are converted in Hybrid Cloud Monitoring.

Namespace in CloudMonitor Basic

Metric ID in CloudMonitor Basic

Metric name in Hybrid Cloud Monitoring

Change description

acs_ecs_dashboard

cpu_total

AliyunEcs_cpu_total

The cloud service name is Ecs.

waf

4XX_ratio

AliyunWaf_4XX_ratio

The cloud service name is Waf.

acs_fc

FunctionDequeueCount

AliyunFc_FunctionDequeueCount

The cloud service name is Fc.

acs_vpc_eip

net.rxPkgs

AliyunVpceip_net_rxPkgs

  • The cloud service name is Vpceip.

  • The monitoring metric name is net_rxPkgs.