The names of the monitoring metrics in Hybrid Cloud Monitoring are changed based on the names of the monitoring metrics in CloudMonitor Basic. This topic describes the scenarios, naming conventions, and naming examples for monitoring metrics in Hybrid Cloud Monitoring.

Scenarios

The naming conventions are applicable only to the monitoring metrics of Alibaba Cloud services in Hybrid Cloud Monitoring.

Naming conventions for monitoring metrics

Naming conventions for monitoring metrics in Hybrid Cloud Monitoring: AliyunNamespace_Metric.
Note For information about cloud services and their monitoring metrics in CloudMonitor Basic, see MetricName in Appendix 1: Metrics.

Rules for changing the namespaces of cloud services

Compared with the namespaces in CloudMonitor Basic, the namespaces in Hybrid Cloud Monitoring are changed based on the following rules:
  • The prefix acs_ is removed.
  • The suffix _dashboard is removed.
  • The underscore (_) in the middle is removed.
  • The first letter in the abbreviation of the cloud service name is uppercase and all the other letters are lowercase.

Rules for changing the names of monitoring metrics

Compared with the metric names (MetricName) in CloudMonitor Basic, the metric names in Hybrid Cloud Monitoring are changed based on the following rules:
  • Symbols except underscores (_), letters, and digits in the metric names are replaced with underscores (_).
  • The letter case of the metric names remains unchanged.

Examples of changes in metric names

The following table describes how the metric names in CloudMonitor Basic are changed in Hybrid Cloud Monitoring.
Namespace in CloudMonitor BasicMetric ID in CloudMonitor BasicMetric name in Hybrid Cloud MonitoringChange description
acs_ecs_dashboardcpu_totalAliyunEcs_cpu_totalThe name of the cloud service is Ecs.
waf4XX_ratioAliyunWaf_4XX_ratioThe name of the cloud service is Waf.
acs_fcFunctionDequeueCountAliyunFc_FunctionDequeueCountThe name of the cloud service is Fc.
acs_vpc_eipnet.rxPkgsAliyunVpceip_net_rxPkgs
  • The name of the cloud service is Vpceip.
  • The name of the monitoring metric is net_rxPkgs.