The Metrics Explorer feature makes it easy to find and understand the metrics from all your systems and services. Whether you are monitoring servers, applications, or cloud resources, Metrics Explorer helps you see what is happening across your entire infrastructure.

You can search for metrics using names or simple keywords to quickly find what you need. Once you find metrics, you can narrow down the results using filters to focus on specific parts of your system. You can also create custom searches to dig deeper into the data. The built-in tools help you analyze trends and seasonality, detect anomalies, find problems, and understand why your metrics are changing. This makes it simpler to identify issues and take action to improve performance.

Key Capabilities

  • Find metrics quickly: Search for metrics by name or keyword to quickly find the data you need.
  • Narrow your results: Filter metrics by resource, attributes, and time range to focus on a specific part of your environment.
  • Create custom visualizations: Use Tile builder to edit queries, choose aggregations, and configure tiles for monitoring.
  • Understand metric behavior: Review trends and seasonality, detect anomalies, and use recommended thresholds to identify important performance changes.
  • Compare time periods: Compare different time ranges to confirm changes, identify recurring patterns, and spot regressions.
  • Save metrics to dashboards: Add metric tiles to dashboards for ongoing monitoring, collaboration, and follow-up.
  • Run focused analysis: Start an analysis directly from a metric tile to investigate patterns and changes in the selected data.

Use Cases

Use Metrics Explorer when you want to:

  • Search and inspect metrics quickly before creating dashboards.
  • Run one-click analysis for anomaly detection and trend review.
  • Validate behavior by applying filters and comparing time ranges.
  • Build and customize dashboard tiles for ongoing monitoring.

Permissions

The Manage Dashboard permission is required to access Metrics Explorer.

Documentation Sections

Use the following sections to learn how to use Metrics Explorer, analyze metrics, and troubleshoot common issues.