Metrics dashboards provide visual representations of the numerical measurements collected from a cloud service. Dashboards help you understand how a service is performing over time—for example, how much capacity it uses, how quickly it responds, or how much work it's handling. Dashboards make it easy to identify trends, compare current behavior with past patterns, and quickly detect when something isn't operating as expected.

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Supported services

Metrics are currently available in limited availability for Databases, Object Storage, and NodeBalancers. Support for additional services is planned for future releases.

Centralized vs. entity-level dashboards

You can view metrics in Cloud Manager using centralized dashboards or entity-level dashboards, depending on the scope of the data you want to explore.

Centralized dashboards aggregate metrics from multiple entities of the same service type and present them in a unified view. They help you compare performance across resources, identify patterns, and understand overall service behavior. To access centralized dashboards, navigate to Monitor > Metrics in Cloud Manager.

Entity-level dashboards display metrics for a single entity within a service, such as a specific database cluster. They help you understand the individual performance and behavior of that entity. To view an entity-level dashboard, open an entity's details page and look for the option to view Metrics.

When used together, centralized and entity-level dashboards provide both a high-level view of service behavior, and deeper insight into individual entities.

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NodeBalancers metrics dashboards

Currently, only the centralized NodeBalancers dashboard accessed from the Metrics page of Cloud Manager uses Akamai Cloud Pulse metrics. Entity-level dashboards accessed from the NodeBalancers section of Cloud Manager continue to display legacy graphs.

Dashboard components

Metrics dashboards are organized into two main areas:

• Configuration controls enable you to set the dashboard, time range, filters, and grouping options
• Widgets. display metrics visually based on your selections

After you apply your settings, the selected dashboard displays widgets containing the corresponding metrics data.

Configuration controls

Dashboard

Select the dashboard you want to view from the dropdown list. Dashboards are organized by service. A service can have multiple dashboards, each highlighting a different types of information, such as performance or resource usage. Each dashboard contains a set of widgets focused on related metrics.

Time period

Use the date picker to tim period for the metrics display. Select a start and end date and time, optional preset ranges, such as Last hour or Last 30 days. You can query up to 31 days of data at a time, or select one of the preset ranges (last 30 minutes, last hour, last 12 hours, and so on). The dashboard automatically adjusts the granularity at which metrics data is aggregated based on the selected time range.

Global Group By

Use Global Group By to split data into separate time series lines based on selected dimension values. Global Group By affects all widgets on the dashboard, so only dimensions supported by every widget can be selected. If multiple dimensions are selected, data is split according to those dimensions in the order selected. Widget-level groupings can be applied on top of the global grouping.

To use Global Group By, click the icon next to the Refresh icon beside the End Date field.

Filters

Filters help narrow down the list of available entities. The filters available depend on the service associated with the dashboard. You can select up to 10 entities for visualization.

Widgets

Widgets visualize metrics data. They contain both graphical and tabular representations of the data. The number and types of widgets vary by service.

Widgets include the following components:

• A chart showing how the metric values change over time. This chart makes it easy to identify trends, spikes, and patterns.

• A summary table containing key values for the selected time range such as the maximum, average, and last observed values.

• An Aggregation interval dropdown list that lets you select your preferred aggregation interval.

  

  Metrics can be aggregated at intervals of 1 minute, 5 minutes, 1 hour, or 1 day. When set to Auto, the dashboard determines the appropriate interval based on the selected time range.

  Time ranges map to the following granularities:

  Time range	Granularity
  Less than 24 hours	1 minute
  24 hours to 7 days	5 minutes
  More than 7 days	1 hour

• An Aggregation function dropdown list that lets you choose how metrics values are aggregated—for example, sum, maximum, minimum, or average.

  

Widget tools

You can work with widgets in the following ways:

• Filter icon: Filter by dimension, if available
• Download icon: Download widget data to CSV
• Group by icon: Group data into separate time series lines by dimension
• Expand/contract icon: Change the width of the widget from 50% to 100% or 100% to 50%
• Drag to zoom: Zoom in on a specific time range within the dashboard-level time range by dragging across a chart

Next steps

• Try using the centralized dashboard.
• Learn more about accessing entity-level dashboards.
• See descriptions of the metrics and dimensions for each service in the reference guides .