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Overview

Monitoring dashboards provide real-time and historical views of your environment across infrastructure, application, and network layers. Built-in dashboards cover the most common monitoring needs; custom dashboards let you build focused views for specific teams or services.
Prerequisites
  • An active Polystack account with project access
  • Monitoring accessible from your Dashboard account (Monitor Center (admin view))
Monitoring dashboards are accessed through the admin panel. You must have administrator privileges to view infrastructure-level metrics described in this section.

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Built-In Dashboards

Access the monitoring portal

Navigate to Monitor Center (admin view) to open the Monitoring portal.

Select a dashboard

The Home view displays the default infrastructure overview dashboard. Use the left panel to switch between:

Filter and zoom

Use the time range picker in the top-right corner to select a preset range (Last 1h, Last 24h, Last 7d) or define a custom range. Click any panel to drill down into more granular metrics.
Pin frequently-used dashboards to your home screen using the star icon in the dashboard header. Pinned dashboards appear in the Quick Access bar.

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Creating Custom Dashboards

Create a new dashboard

Navigate to Monitor Center > Monitoring (admin view) and click New Dashboard. Enter a name and optional description.

Add panels

Click Add Panel and select a visualization type:

Configure the metric query

Define the data source and query for the panel. Monitoring supports the native metric query language for filtering by host, service, tag, or time range.Example query for CPU utilization:
Queries are not executed against external systems — all data flows through Monitoring’s internal collection pipeline. No external API keys are required.

Save and share

Click Save Dashboard. Use the Share button to generate a read-only link for stakeholders who do not have monitoring portal access.
Dashboard is saved and visible to all project members in the Dashboards list.

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Dashboard Best Practices

Group by context

Create separate dashboards for different audiences: an operations NOC dashboard with health-at-a-glance panels, and a detailed engineering dashboard with deep per-component metrics.

Use template variables

Add template variables (dropdown filters) to dashboards so a single dashboard covers all hosts or services. Use $host or $service as query variables.

Set alert thresholds visually

Add threshold lines to time-series panels to make alert levels visually obvious. This helps operators recognize whether current values are within or outside acceptable ranges at a glance.

Link to related dashboards

Add panel links that navigate to more detailed dashboards when an anomaly is spotted. Click a high-CPU panel → open the detailed compute node dashboard.

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Next Steps

Metrics & Alerts

Create alert rules that fire when dashboard metrics breach thresholds

Log Analytics

Add log panels to dashboards for correlated event visibility

Network Monitoring

Explore network traffic panels and flow-based visualizations

Troubleshooting

Diagnose missing metrics and dashboard data issues