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This topic describes the procedure to create a dashboard.

The following table describes the steps to create a dashboard.

Step	Operation	Description
Step 1	Create a namespace	The metrics in namespaces can be displayed on the dashboard. Before you can import metrics from self-managed data centers, Alibaba Cloud services, and cloud services of third-party providers, you must create namespaces.
Step 2	To create a metric import task, perform the following operations: Create a metric import task for a self-managed data center Create a metric import task within an Alibaba Cloud account or Create a metric import task for multiple Alibaba Cloud accounts Create a metric import task for cloud services of third-party providers Create a metric import task for Prometheus Create a metric import task for on-premises logs Create a metric for logs imported from Log Service Report custom monitoring data	You can create a metric import task for a self-managed data center, an Alibaba Cloud service, or a cloud service provided by a third-party cloud service provider to import monitoring data to CloudMonitor. You can create a metric import task to import data to CloudMonitor, including metric data from Prometheus, logs from on-premises servers, or logs from Log Service. You can also use Alibaba Cloud CLI or call API operations to report custom monitoring data to the namespaces of CloudMonitor. Note After you create a metric import task, Hybrid Cloud Monitoring traces the historical data of metrics for several periods within 1 to 2 minutes. If no historical data is available, you must wait for one period before you can view the latest monitoring data.
Step 3	To create a dashboard, perform the following operations: Create a business dashboard Create a system preset dashboard Create a custom dashboard	After the metrics are imported to CloudMonitor from self-managed data centers, Alibaba Cloud services, or cloud services of third-party providers, you can create a dashboard for the metrics. You can view the monitoring charts of specified metrics on the dashboard. You can create the following types of dashboards: Business dashboard: You can use a default template to create a business dashboard by specifying cloud services, resources, and namespaces. System preset dashboard: You can select a preset template of CloudMonitor to create a system preset dashboard. Monitoring dashboard: You can create a monitoring dashboard for the metrics of self-managed data centers, Alibaba Cloud services, and cloud services of third-party providers.
Step 4	Create an alert rule	After you connect Alibaba Cloud services, data centers, third-party cloud services, Prometheus, on-premises logs, logs from Log Service, and custom monitoring data to CloudMonitor, you can create alert rules. If the metric value of a resource meets the alert conditions, CloudMonitor automatically sends alert notifications to you.