Monitor Visualization

Monitors

Monitors are information available on a device, such as CPU, memory, disk, etc. Each device provides exclusive resources that can be monitored. Monitor colors vary according to their state.

Real-time Chart: Displays the chart updating its data at the selected time interval.

Sampling Period: Customizes the period of the chart to be generated.

Chart Properties: Opens the screen with the properties of the displayed chart.

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	Title: Name that will appear at the top of the chart.
	Limits per reading: When enabled, fills the entire chart according to the period status during the readings.
	Show Status Markers: When there is a status change in the presented time period, Monsta adds a marker to visualize when and to which state the change occurred.
	Hide values: Removes the reported values from the bottom of the chart presentation.
	Hide legend: Removes the legend from the chart presentation.
	Show variation only: Renders the chart only with its variations for a better view of changes.
	Legend color: Customizes the text color of the legends at the bottom of the chart.
	Background color: Customizes the chart background color.
	Legend font size: Customizes the legend size at the bottom of the chart.
	Line width: Customizes the width of the line rendered on the chart.
	Show Percentile Indicator: Adds the selected percentile to the chart.
Group Data by Time	Group the data by time: When there is a time period greater than two days, Monsta groups data and automatically generates an average of the information to be presented on the chart. In this property you can choose the time that this grouping will use or simply disable this property.

Enable Monitoring: This button allows enabling or pausing data collection and chart display for the selected asset. When the monitor is disabled, collection is stopped immediately, ceasing metric processing and the sending of associated alerts, without removing the history of data already stored.

Clone Monitor: Use this functionality to replicate the monitor. By triggering this button, you will open a list to select the destination device, inheriting all metrics, alert thresholds and verification parameters configured.

Metric Value: Shows the metric name, the current reading value and whether the result is higher, lower or equal to the previous reading.

Metrics: Displays information about each individually monitored resource.

Edit: Changes the properties of the selected monitor.

Delete: Deletes the selected monitor.

Publish: Creates a link to publish the chart without the need for authentication. For more information, see Publish a Monitor

Number of Attempts: Indicates the number of monitor attempts before leaving the normal state.

Monitor Information: Displays the date of the last check, the date of the next check, the last status change and the date of the last alert sent.

Percentage: Displays the percentage of the resource used by the selected metric when a maximum value is provided.

Export / Calculate Area: The information collection chart offers three main options for interacting with the viewed data:

Export as Image: In the top right corner of the chart, click the “Download” or “Export” icon to save the chart as an image file. This allows you to use the image in reports, presentations or easily share it.
Export Data: You can export the raw data in spreadsheet formats for later analysis. Available formats are CSV and XLS.
Consumption Report: For a more in-depth analysis, you can calculate the area under the chart curve. This function is ideal for obtaining accumulated or total values over the selected period. Click the “Consumption Report” option and the result will be displayed in a text box, ready to be copied or used in your calculations.

Publish a Monitor

Publishing a monitor allows the user to create a link for internet access without the need for a username and password.

Publish: Enables creating the link for the selected monitor.
Period: Allows choosing the publish duration of the chart. For security, periods longer than one month are not allowed.
Fullscreen: When enabled, uses the entire screen to display the chart.
Width and Height: Sets the chart dimensions in pixels.
HTML Code: This code is generated by Monsta for the selected monitor and can be used to publish the chart on a third-party dashboard.

Edit/Customize a Monitor

Editing a monitor allows customizing important information about its behavior, such as collection frequency, alert thresholds and its script for how to fetch information.

Details

Icon: Allows selecting the icon that will be displayed on the screen.

Short name: This is the text that will appear on the monitor icon.

Name: This is the text that will be shown at the top of the monitor chart.

Metrics: These are the resources whose data will be collected for the chart.

Color: Selects the color that will be rendered by the metric on the chart.

Metric name: This is the name that will be shown in the legend of the current reading indicator.

Legend: This is the name that will be shown in the chart legend and in the current value indicator for the selected metric.

Instances: Allows changing the current instance of the metric.

Clone: Allows adding a new metric to the same monitor.

Disable Limits: When checked, disables sending alerts for the monitor being edited. The selected metric will always be considered in a normal state.

Fix OID: When unchecked, Monsta will verify if the name of the monitored instance remains at the same OID and in case of change, the new position will be located automatically. When this option is checked, Monsta will collect data always from the same OID, regardless of the instance name.

Threshold Inversion: This option allows you to change the alert logic of a monitor. Use this feature for metrics where a low value indicates a problem (e.g., the speed of a network interface should not drop below a certain level) or where you need to monitor specific ranges of values.

Alert Percentage: Allows selecting at which values the metric will enter an alert state. When a maximum value is defined, alert configuration will be in percentage; otherwise, limits are provided textually.

Check Interval: Allows selecting the frequency at which the monitor will run.

Number of Attempts: Allows selecting how many times the monitor should be checked before leaving its normal state. When a monitor returns to normal before reaching this limit, this counter is reset.

Alert Groups

Notify alert group: When enabled, sends alerts to the selected groups; otherwise, Monsta will not send alerts even when the monitor changes status.

Inherited from device: These are the alert groups defined in the device edit. Once inherited, they cannot be removed from the monitor, only disabled.

Add Alert Group: Adds groups that will receive alerts when the monitor changes state. For more information see Alerts.

Remove Alert Group: Removes the selected alert group.

Alert Sounds

Allows adding custom alert sounds for each monitor status.

Error Log

Shows the latest failures that occurred during monitor collection. This log is useful to know the reason why a collection is not being successfully performed.

Advanced

Metrics

Metrics: Allows changing the metric display order, removing it or editing it. For more information on how to edit a metric see Metrics.

Data source for the value: It is the method that Monsta will use to collect information for this metric. For more information, see Metrics.

Data source for the maximum value: Used when the monitor has a maximum limit value. For more information, see Metrics.

Parameters

In this tab the parameters used by the selected monitor and their respective values are provided.