Observe metrics

You can observe Database Service metrics with the monitoring instance. See Monitoring and visualizing metrics for general information about the monitoring and visualizing processes for Application Operators (AO) in GDC.

You must create a database cluster before you can observe its metrics.

View diagnostic logs

  1. Navigate to the monitoring instance UI to access the database diagnostic logs for a database cluster.

  2. Click the explore Explore button from the menu to open the Explore page.

  3. Enter a query to search for Database Service logs using LogQL.

    1. Using the Label filters drop-down menu, create a filter for service_name=ods.

    2. Click the add Operations button and select Line contains. Enter the database cluster's name in the text box.

    3. Click the add Operations button again and select Line contains. Enter PROJECT_NAME in the text box.

    4. Click the Run query button.

View metrics

  1. Navigate to the monitoring instance UI to access the metrics for a database cluster.

  2. From the drop-down menu, select prometheus as the data source to retrieve metrics.

  3. Application operators can access Database Service metrics that have the ods_ prefix. Enter ods_ in the Select a metric text box in the Metrics browser panel to view all Database Service metric types.

  4. Application operators can also access metrics with the pg_ prefix.