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Monitoring Resources

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Overview​

Monitoring in the Webberstop Cloud Portal is an opt-in feature that enables real-time and historical insights into your instance's resource utilization. It collects and displays performance metrics to help you monitor availability, troubleshoot issues, and optimize system behavior across your virtual machines.

Monitoring can be accessed from:

  • The Monitoring page, offering a centralized view of all VMs.
  • The Usage Graphs tab within each individual instance for detailed, instance-specific analytics.

Key Metrics & Charts​

Each monitored resource includes one or more charts that visualize data across specific time intervals. These charts allow administrators and developers to track usage trends, investigate anomalies, and fine-tune system performance.

Network Traffic​

The Network Traffic chart provides insights into incoming and outgoing data across the network interface over time. It helps identify:

  • Bandwidth usage patterns
  • Network bottlenecks
  • Unexpected traffic spikes

Common use cases include troubleshooting latency issues or validating network load under high demand.

Disk I/O (Read/Write)​

The Disk I/O Read/Write chart displays:

  • Read operations: How frequently data is being accessed from disk
  • Write operations: How often data is written to the disk

This metric is critical for:

  • Evaluating the health of the storage subsystem
  • Detecting disk bottlenecks
  • Diagnosing issues related to disk throughput and latency

Memory Usage​

The Memory Usage chart visualizes RAM consumption over time, helping you understand how much memory is being used by processes, caching, and the OS. This allows you to:

  • Identify memory leaks or over-utilization
  • Determine if your instance needs resizing
  • Optimize performance under memory-constrained environments

CPU Usage​

The CPU Usage chart shows the percentage of CPU resources consumed over a selected period. It is useful for:

  • Monitoring compute-intensive workloads
  • Detecting abnormal CPU spikes
  • Understanding how workloads are impacting CPU load

Disk Read & Write​

This chart provides a combined view of disk read and write activity, useful for:

  • Analyzing storage-intensive applications
  • Tracking disk utilization under load
  • Evaluating performance before and after I/O optimizations

Benefits of Monitoring​

  • Real-time performance insights to quickly identify and react to issues
  • Historical data visualization for trend analysis and capacity planning
  • Centralized visibility across all instances or per-instance granularity
  • Better resource optimization for cost-effective scaling
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Enable monitoring on all production VMs to proactively detect issues and reduce downtime. For improved visibility, set up alerts and retention policies (if available).