Monitoring and logging help ensure the availability of your CloudBox resources and the health of your services. You can use the network monitoring and data center monitoring features in CloudBox to continuously collect monitoring data. Alibaba Cloud provides various monitoring and logging services, such as Cloud Monitor and ActionTrail. These services help you monitor your cloud resources and business operations in real time and respond promptly to alerts for abnormal events.
CloudBox resource monitoring
You can view monitoring data for the following resources in the CloudBox console:
Resource type | Description | References |
Compute resource | Lets you view the inventory and usage of compute resources. | |
Block storage resource | Lets you monitor the input/output operations per second (IOPS), throughput, and storage capacity of its block storage resources. | |
Network resource | Lets you monitor its network bandwidth and rate. | |
Data center environment | Lets you monitor the data center environment, including temperature and humidity, and manage access control. |
Basic Cloud Monitor
CloudBox is integrated with the basic service of Alibaba Cloud Cloud Monitor. You can use this service for free to monitor various metrics for your cloud resources and Internet applications in real time. You can monitor your CloudBox resources and data center environment with Cloud Monitor. This helps you understand their status and promptly resolve any issues.
For CloudBox, Cloud Monitor supports the following metrics:
Block storage: used capacity, total capacity, and capacity usage.
Network: inbound packet rate, inbound bandwidth, inbound rate-limiting packet loss rate, outbound packet rate, outbound bandwidth, and outbound rate-limiting packet loss rate.
IDC: temperature and humidity.
You can set alert rules based on these metrics. When monitoring data meets the conditions of an alert rule, Cloud Monitor automatically sends an alert notification. For more information, see Monitor CloudBox resources and the data center environment with Cloud Monitor.
Cloud resource operation audit
CloudBox is integrated with Alibaba Cloud ActionTrail to provide unified management of operation logs for your cloud resources. ActionTrail records user logons and resource access operations under your Alibaba Cloud account. This enables security analytics, intrusion detection, resource change tracking, and compliance auditing.
For a list of supported audit events, see Audit events for CloudBox.
You can query management events in the ActionTrail console. For more information, see Event query overview.