This preview documentation is deprecated.

Discovery for Media has been renamed to media recommendations. It is now part of Vertex AI Search, and you can manage it using the Search and Conversation console. We recommend that you use the Search and Conversation console. After March 31, 2024, the Discovery Engine console will no longer be available.

For information about what's changing, see Switch from Discovery for Media to media recommendations. For more information about recommendations in Vertex AI Search, see About recommendations.

Monitor and troubleshoot

This page describes how to monitor traffic, error rates, and latency by API method from the Discovery Engine console, and how to access the APIs & Services console for additional API method metrics, quotas, credentials, and service cost information.

Introduction

Providing accurate document information and user events is important to getting the highest quality results. Monitoring API method metrics can help you find and fix errors that occur during data import.

Monitor API method activity

To see graphs of traffic, errors, and latency by API method over time:

Go to the Discovery Engine Monitoring page in the Google Cloud console.

Go to the Monitoring page
Select a preset time period or enter a custom time range.
To see more details about each graph:
- Select method names in a graph's legend to isolate them in that graph.
- Hold the pointer of your cursor over a graph to see a callout with each method and its values at that point in time.
- Click and drag over any section of the graph to zoom in on that period of time.

View API usage overview

To see an overview of your API usage over time, including costs and percentages of quotas used:

Go to the Discovery Engine Monitoring page in the Google Cloud console.

Go to the Monitoring page
On the button bar, click View API metrics.

The Cloud console API/Service Detail page for the Discovery Engine API
opens.

For more about the API/Service Detail page, see Using the API Dashboard.