Monitoring Overview
Couchbase Capella monitors your clusters for activity and notifies you of important events.
In Couchbase Capella, monitoring includes alerts and metrics. Alerts are events that have occurred within your organization and can range from simply useful info (a new user was invited) to critical (a cluster’s storage is beyond capacity). Metrics provide you with a view of the data behind many of the alerts and can present a picture of how your clusters are performing.
Alerts
Alerts and notifications provide insight into cluster activity and other important events occurring within your organization. This includes everything from service impacting events to administrative activities. They’re designed to inform you before an issue has a service impact and provide you with enough time to perform a corrective action, while also avoiding noise.
Critical and Warning alerts are shown as an alert banner at the top of all cluster screens for clusters experiencing an important event. These banner alerts include severity, count, and time information about the event. They also include a detailed description of why the alert was triggered, recommended remediation guidance, and in some cases direct actions to resolve the issue. All past alerts are also collected in the activity dashboard.
Activity Dashboard
The Activity Explorer provides an audit trail of events that bring transparency to user activity and cluster performance. It forms a complete timeline of activity that includes a summary of the activity, the resource affected, the actor, the date and time, and any actionable recommendations. Smart filtering allows you to narrow down activity events based on cloud, cluster, severity, and tag (activity event type).