Explore cloud instances and VMs

To quickly review status and metrics for your cloud infrastructure, cloud instances and VMs in the SolarWinds Platform Web Console, see cloud summary views for an overview of monitored accounts, triggered alerts, and monitored entities.

Access cloud data

For a modern, tile-based cloud summary, click My Dashboards > Cloud > New Cloud Summary.

For a conservative cloud overview, click Dashboards > Cloud > Cloud Summary.

Provider-based dashboards

For a provider-based overview, click Dashboards > Cloud > Azure, AWS, or GCP.

Review summary information on monitored clouds

On Cloud Summary view, use the Search Instances field to find instances/VMs and volumes quickly. Click hyperlinks to access more details quickly. Hover over points to compare collected data and linked alerts.

• The Cloud Instances Status Summary shows various metrics. Values that exceed thresholds are colored to indicate warning (orange) and critical (red) values.
• The Cloud Asset Summary displays totals for instances/VMs, attached volumes, and storage capacity, grouped by cloud service provider.
• The Cloud Server Infrastructure section groups instances/VMs by cloud account and region.
• The Active Cloud Alerts section lists unacknowledged alerts currently affecting cloud instances/VMs.
• The Cloud Volumes Performance section includes various volume-related metrics.
• The Cloud Applications with Problems section lists applications with issues on cloud instances managed as nodes in SAM.
• If you have NPM installed, In/Out Gateway Traffic by Region widget lists regions with in and out traffic. Click a region to go to the list of gateways in the selected region.

Review status and metrics for a specific cloud instance

• Hover over the name of cloud instance/VM to display details about it.

• If an instance/VM is a managed node, the displayed information includes additional data such as CPU usage and packet loss.

Monitor cloud performance and usage

To track performance and usage trends, you may want to focus on the following resources:

• Active Alerts lists active alerts affecting the cloud instance/VM.
• Min/Max/Average of Average CPU load displays average CPU load collected and calculated for the cloud instance/VM.
• Min/Max/Average of Network Utilization provides a chart of the minimum, maximum, and average bits per second transmitted and received over a cloud instance for a custom period of time.