Chapter 17. Monitoring Reports and Data

The Summary > Activity tab for an individual resource (or compatible group) shows a snapshot of all recent actions on the resource, such as new packages and content, inventory changes, events, operations, and alerts. There is also a portlet that displays the most recent detected value of the primary metrics for the resource.

Click on any metric name in the Resource: Measurements portlet opens the metric graph. Clicking the see more... link opens the metrics charts in the Monitoring tab.

The Dashboard main page has a global view of all resources in the inventory. By default, this page shows only alerting data and unavailable resources. However, the Dashboard can be customized to show different portlets of monitoring data. Additionally, the main page can have multiple dashboards, so a dashboard can be created to look at different metrics for the same resource, the same metrics for different resources, or a combination of relevant metrics for a group of related resources — whatever you design.

The main dashboard has several types of portlets specifically for monitoring data:

Charts for a specific metric for a resource can be added to the Dashboard. This makes it easier to see the current state of important readings for common or critical resources immediately, without having to configure alerts or check resource entries.

A chart for that specific metric on that specific resource is automatically added to the Dashboard that was selected.