General information about the Metrics service

The Metrics service is designed to collect, store, and analyze metrics for Servercore products.

You can collect metrics for:

• dedicated servers;
• cloud servers, volumes connected to them, and private networks.

Metrics allow you to evaluate resource utilization, identify bottlenecks in application and infrastructure performance, and distinguish one-time anomalies from systematic degradation.

How it works

The Metrics service automatically collects metrics on the state of your resources. A metric (metric) is a quantitative indicator of performance in the Prometheus format.

A metric is a single record consisting of three parameters:

• metric_name – metric name;
• label_name – metric label name;
• label_value – label value.

Metrics related to specific products or services are grouped into a namespace (namespace). Namespaces are fixed and cannot be changed. Available namespaces can be viewed in the Metrics Reference.

How to use the Metrics service

You can view and analyze metrics using metrics collection agents:

• Prometheus;
• VMAgent;
• Telegraf.

You can also visualize metrics using Grafana or view system dashboards in the Control Panel.

You can check the availability of the Metrics service in locations in the Metrics availability in locations article.

Pricing

The service is currently provided free of charge. In the future, the service will become paid—we will notify you of any changes to the terms in advance.