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Cloud Eye

Cloud Eye monitors cloud services and resources to keep you informed of any issues in real time.

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 and Bare Metal Server (BMS), you can collect 60-second granularity ECS and BMS monitoring data in real-time. Cloud Eye tracks 40 different metrics, such as CPU, memory, and disk usage, for resources.

    For details, see Server Monitoring.

  • Flexible alarm rule configuration: You can create alarm rules for multiple resources at the same time. After an alarm rule is created, you can flexibly manage it, for example at any time you can modify, enable, disable, or delete it.
  • Real-time notification: You can enable Alarm Notification when creating alarm rules. When the cloud service status changes and the monitoring data of the metric reaches the threshold specified in an alarm rule, Cloud Eye notifies users by text messages, emails, or by sending messages to server addresses. In this way, you can monitor the cloud resource status and changes in real time.
  • Panel: Panels enable you to view cross-service and cross-dimension monitoring data. It displays key metrics centrally, providing an overview of the service operating status and allowing monitoring details to be checked when troubleshooting.
  • OBS dump: Raw data for each metric is kept for only two days on Cloud Eye. If you need to store the metrics longer than that, use Object Storage Service (OBS) to synchronize them to OBS buckets.
  • Resource groups: A resource group allows you to add and monitor correlated resources and provides a collective health status for all resources that it contains.
  • Website monitoring: It continuously monitors the remote server status, such as availability and connectivity, by simulating real user's access to remote servers.
  • Log Monitoring: It enables you to monitor log content in real time. By creating alarm rules on Cloud Eye to monitor the logs collected by Log Tank Service (LTS), you can reduce your O&M costs for log monitoring and simplify the log monitoring process.
  • Event monitoring: You can query system events that are automatically reported to Cloud Eye and custom events reported to Cloud Eye through the API. When there are specified events, you will receive alarm notifications.
Parent topic: Operational Excellence