Akamai Cloud Pulse automatically collects and stores metrics data for Akamai Cloud services. Metrics data provides essential insights into the health, behavior, and performance of your cloud resources and infrastructure.

You can visualize and analyze metrics data using dashboards. Monitor your Akamai Cloud services on the centralized dashboard, which allows you to analyze metrics data for multiple entities at once, or monitor a specific entity by selecting the Metrics tab on an entity's details page.

You can also access metrics using the API.

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Metrics is currently available for the Databases service. Support for additional Akamai Cloud services in planned for future releases.

Filters

To customize the centralized dashboard view, you'll need to specify a few things:

• The specific dashboard. Select the dashboard you wish to view. Currently, Resource Usage is the only available dashboard for Databases service.
• The time range. Choose a preset time range, or set a custom time range. The maximum time range allowed is 31 days. The dashboard aggregates metric data at the appropriate granularity based on the time range you select.
• the filtering criteria. Use the dimensional filters to narrow down the metrics data to include. The dashboard can display metrics data for a maximum of ten entities at a time. See Dimensions for more information about the supported dimensions for the Databases service.

Once you've selected the dashboard, set the time range, and applied your filters, the dashboard displays metrics data as a series of widgets. IF you navigate away from the dashboard, your preferences will be saved and applied the next time you access it.

Widgets

Each widget displays a graph of a single metric over time—see Metrics for descriptions of the metrics available for the Databases service. You can change the way the data is aggregated in the display by changing the aggregation interval and aggregation function.

Each widget also displays minimum, maximum, and last values for the selected time period in a table below the graph.

You change the width of the widget from 50% and 100%, or from 100% to 50% by clicking the resize icon.

Aggregation interval

Set the aggregation interval to view data at a specific granularity: 1 minute, 5 minutes, 1 hour, or 1 day. The aggregation interval dropdown menu is located to the right of the widget heading.

If the aggregation interval is set to **Auto**, data is aggregated based on the time range selected. Time ranges correspond to the following granularities:

Aggregation function

Set the aggregation function to the statistic you want to use to visualize aggregated values for the selected time range: sum, maximum, minimum, or average. The aggregation function dropdown menu is located to the right of the widget heading and aggregation interval dropdown menu.

Next steps

Akamai Cloud Pulse – Alerts monitors key metrics and and events in real-time, automatically triggering notifications or actions when predefined thresholds or conditions are met. To learn more about alerts and how to configure them, see Akamai Cloud Pulse - Alerts.