Introduction to Monitoring Center

Monitoring Center is a tool that shows all kinds of metrics on a multi-charts page.

To open Monitoring Center from the Main Menu, select Monitoring Center.

The new page opens on a separate tab with four 2x2 charts as default.

Change the charts by selecting a new layout. Options to choose from:

2x2 (4 charts), 2x3 (6 charts) or 3x3 (9 charts).

To change the layout from the navigation bar, select Layout; charts adjust automatically on your screen.

Each chart can be configured individually by clicking the configuration icon at the right corner of the chart.

In the configuration panel you can specify:

• Chart title (displayed on the top panel of the chart)

• Account and region to pull data from

• Metric Category – Gives you an option to choose what category you want to see metrics from (e.g. EC2, EBS, ELB, etc.)

• Metrics – This list is populated after selecting category and contains metrics relevant to the selected category

• Select Object – List of objects related to the selected category, e.g. if you select EC2 as a category, the object list, contains EC2 Instances from the selected account and region

• Data Interval – Interval of data to be shown on the chart

• Refresh Data – Interval of frequency to refresh data on the chart

Additionally, you can configure alarms. When the alarm is triggered, the color of the chart's border is changed to light green if a warning is triggered, or red if an alert is triggered.

To setup alarm, select operator and enter value.

When you finish configuration, click Save.

When you finish configuration of charts, you can save the layout (including configuration of all charts under given name). To save layout, click Save As from the navigation panel.

Enter name and click Save.

The new layout is displayed on the Load Layout drop down list.

To load layout from the list, select layout and click Load.

At any time, you can remove layout from the list by selecting Layout and clicking Delete.

To create a new layout, click New.