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What Is Cloud Eye?

Cloud Eye is a multi-dimensional resource monitoring service. You can use Cloud Eye to monitor resources, set alarm rules, identify resource exceptions, and quickly respond to resource changes.

Architecture

Cloud Eye collects metrics from various cloud services. You can also use APIs to report custom metric data according to the specifications stipulated by Cloud Eye.

All metrics are stored in the Cloud Eye's metric database. When a cloud service reports monitoring data to Cloud Eye, its metrics will be displayed on a default graph where you can view resource details. You can also configure alarm rules with varying severity levels based on the importance of metrics. When a metric reaches its preset threshold, an alarm is triggered, and notifications will be sent to you over different protocols through Simple Message Notification (SMN). This allows you to quickly address any resource issues.

Figure 1 Cloud Eye architecture

Major Features

Cloud Eye provides the following functions:

  • Automatic monitoring

    Monitoring starts automatically after you created resources such as Elastic Cloud Servers (ECSs). On the Cloud Eye console, you can view the service status and set alarm rules for these resources.

  • Server monitoring

    After you install the Agent (Telescope) on an ECS or Bare Metal Server (BMS), you can collect 60-second granularity ECS and BMS monitoring data in real-time. Cloud Eye provides 40 metrics, such as CPU, memory, and disk metrics. For details, see Overview.

  • Flexible alarm rule configuration

    You can create alarm rules for multiple resources at the same time. After you create an alarm rule, you can modify, enable, disable, or delete it at any time. For details, see Overview.

  • Real-time notification

    You can enable Alarm Notifications when creating alarm rules. When a metric reaches the threshold specified in an alarm rule, Cloud Eye will notify you by SMS, email, HTTP or HTTPS message, FunctionGraph (function), FunctionGraph (workflow), WeCom, DingTalk, Lark, or WeLink. You can track the service status and establish programs accordingly to handle the alarms. For more information, see Alarm Notifications.

  • Monitoring panel

    A dashboard enables you to view cross-service and cross-dimension monitoring data. It displays key metrics and provides an overview of the service status and monitoring details that you can use for troubleshooting. For details, see Overview.

  • Resource group

    A resource group allows you to centrally manage resources, such as ECSs, EVS disks, EIPs, bandwidth, and databases, from the respective of your services. You can manage different types of resources, alarm rules, and alarm records by service. This improves O&M efficiency. For more information about resource groups, see Overview.

  • Event monitoring

    You can query system events and custom events reported to Cloud Eye through APIs. You can create alarm rules for both system events and custom events. When specific events occur, Cloud Eye generates alarms for you. For details, see Overview.

  • Data dump

    You can use the data dump function to query metrics on the DMS for Kafka console or on an open-source Kafka client. It helps you dump cloud service monitoring data to Kafka in real time.

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