This topic describes how to use the metrics in CloudMonitor and provides links for you to view the metrics of various Alibaba Cloud services.
For more information about the metrics of Hybrid Cloud Monitoring, see Naming conventions for monitoring metrics in Hybrid Cloud Monitoring.
Usage notes
If you need to call CloudMonitor API operations, you can click the links in the following table to view the parameters of the metrics for Alibaba Cloud services. The parameters include Namespace, MetricName, Dimensions, and Period.
Parameter | Value source |
Namespace | The content following |
MetricName | The Metric ID column on the Metric List page of the cloud service. |
Dimensions | The Dimensions column on the Metric List page of the cloud service. When you call API operations, you do not need to specify userId in the Dimensions column. CloudMonitor automatically obtains the ID of the current account and enters it in userId. |
Period | The Min Periods column on the Metric List page of the cloud service. |
Metrics for Alibaba Cloud services
Category | Alibaba Cloud service |
Elastic computing | |
Analytics | |
Message queue | |
Artificial intelligence | |
Database | |
Others | |
Storage and CDN | |
Cloud communications | |
Monitoring and management | |
Video services | |
Big data | |
Network | |
Application services | |
Security |