Getting started with Yandex Cloud resource metrics

Monium allows you to work with the metrics of Yandex Cloud services as well as any other metrics uploaded to Monium, e.g., from your applications, infrastructure, or other clouds.

Follow this guide to create a dashboard and widgets displaying the state of your Yandex Cloud resources.

Create a new dashboardCreate a new dashboard

1. On the Monium home page, select Dashboards on the left.

2. In the top-left corner, select the folder project containing the resource in question.

3. At the top right, click Create.

4. At the top right, click and select Heading.

5. In the text field that appears, specify Cross-service dashboard.

6. Click Save.

   Headings allow you to separate dashboard sections.

7. Save the dashboard:

   1. At the top right, click and select Save.
   2. Specify the dashboard title.

Add a Yandex Compute Cloud widgetAdd a Yandex Compute Cloud widget

1. At the top right, click and select Graph.
2. Configure a new chart showing CPU load of all VMs in the folder, using Yandex Compute Cloud cpu_usage metric. To do this, select the following labels in the query constructor:
   • cluster=default
   • service=__compute__
   • name=cpu_usage
   • resource_id=*
   • resource_type=vm
3. Click Execute query and the page will present a chart.
4. At the top, next to the dashboard name, specify the widget name, e.g., CPU on all hosts.
5. Click Apply at the top right.
6. Return to the dashboard editing page by clicking the dashboard title (you specified earlier) at the top.

Add a section widgetAdd a section widget

1. Click and select Section.
2. Drag the title and chart to the section you created.
3. Next to the section name, click the settings and enter a section title, e.g., Virtual machines.
4. Click Save.

Save the new dashboardSave the new dashboard

1. Change the widget size and arrange them according to your preferences.
2. Click Save at the top right.

In the end, you created a dashboard with widgets displaying the resource status for different Yandex Cloud services.

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