Enable and use app monitoring

After you create an app you can enable app monitoring during the deployment step, and then view metrics about the app's performance.

Deploy an app with monitoring enabled

After you have built an end-to-end application with all the necessary components you must deploy the app to start using it. When you deploy you have the option to enable monitoring.

Console

  1. Open the Applications tab of the Vertex AI Vision dashboard.

    Go to the Applications tab

  2. Select View app next to the name of your application from the list.

  3. From the application graph builder page click the Deploy button.

  4. In the Deploy application menu that opens, select any other options and select Enable monitoring for this application.

  5. Click Deploy.

    After deployment completes there will be green check marks next to the nodes.

View app monitoring metrics

After an app has been deployed for several minutes, you can access some app metrics, such as graphs indicating the request counts made to various external services (such as BigQuery or Cloud Run functions) from various models.

Console

  1. Open the Applications tab of the Vertex AI Vision dashboard.

    Go to the Applications tab

  2. Select View app next to the name of your application from the list.

  3. From the application graph builder page click the View details button.

    In this view you can see metrics, such as app request count and uptime.

  4. For a more detailed view, click the Open Metrics Explorer button.

  5. To view a specific metric, click Select a metric and choose the metric.

    Metrics explorer select a metric option

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