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About the Monitors Page

To access this page, click Observability > Active Assurance > Monitors.

Monitors are entities that you configure to indefinitely measure metrics (such as response time and packet loss). A Monitor contains only one Step and a Step can have multiple Tasks. For more information on Monitors, see Tests and Monitors Overview.

You (superusers and network administrators) can use the Monitors page to view the list of Monitors that the Test Agents run in your network and view the details of each Monitor.

Tasks You Can Perform

You can perform the following tasks on the Monitors page:

  • View details of a Monitor—You can view the list of all the Monitors in your network and the details of these Monitors.

    To view the details of a Monitor, select a Monitor and click More > Details. You can also hover over the Monitor-Name and click the Detailed View icon. The Monitor Details pane appears on the right side of the page displaying the Monitor details.

    On the Monitor Details pane, you can:

    • Copy API Request URL—You can copy the API Request URL so that you can reuse the copied API request URL to fetch the Monitor details when you restart the Monitor.

    • View information such as, name, description, tags, ID, creation, and execution status of the Monitor.

    • Edit the name, description, and tags of the Monitor.

    Click the Close (x) icon to close the pane.

  • View details of a Monitor—You can view the list of all the Monitors that you have run and the details of a selected Monitor. Table 1 describes the fields on the Monitors page.

    Click a Monitor-Name to view the details of the Monitor. For more information, see About the Monitor-Name Page.

  • Create a Monitor. See Create a Monitor.

  • You can also perform the following tasks on this page:

    • Sort, resize, or re-arrange columns in a table (grid).

      Note:

      Sort functionality does not work for Created By, Updated By, Last Started By, Last Stopped By and Tags.

    • Show or hide columns in the table or reset page preferences, using the vertical ellipsis menu.

    • Filter the data displayed in the table—Click the filter icon (funnel) and select whether you want to show or hide advanced filters. You can then add or remove filter criteria, save criteria as a filter, apply or clear filters, and so on. The filtered results are displayed on the same page.

    For more information, see GUI Overview.

Table 1: Fields on the Monitors Page
Fields Description
Name

The name of the Monitor that you specified when you created the Monitor.
Description

The description of the Monitor that you specified when you created the Monitor.

Status

 The statuses for the Monitor are:

  • Started—The Test Agent has initiated a Monitor.

  • Running—The Test Agent is running the Monitor.

  • Error—The Test Agent has encountered an error while executing the Monitor. The errors can be anything from a Test Agent being offline to a metric configuration failure or a timeout.

  • Stopped—The Test Agent has stopped running the Monitor.

Requested Status

The expected status of the Monitor.

Created By

The username (e-mail address) of the user who has created the Monitor.

Updated By

The username (e-mail address) of the user who has updated the Monitor.

Created

The date and time when the Monitor was created. The timestamp is displayed in the following format: Month DD, YYYY, HH:MM:SS AM/PM.

For example, Feb 5, 2024, 4:29:52 PM.

Last Started

The date and time when the Monitor was last started. The timestamp is displayed in the following format: Month DD, YYYY, HH:MM:SS AM/PM.

For example, Feb 5, 2024, 4:29:52 PM.

Last Updated

The latest date and time when the Monitor was last updated. The timestamp is displayed in the following format: Month DD, YYYY, HH:MM:SS AM/PM.

For example, Feb 5, 2024, 4:29:52 PM.

Tags

The tags you have configured for the Monitor in the key:value format.

By default, only two tags are displayed in column. To view more than two tags, click + Number more.

A tag is a key-value pair in which the key signifies a category for which you configure a value. The value is an identifier for the category.

Examples of key-value pairs are device and device name (edgedevice:acx7000), site and site name (site:bangalore).

You can configure tags for a Monitor at the time of creating a Monitor.

Last Started By

The username (e-mail address) of the user who started the Monitor lately.

Last Stopped

The date and time when the Monitor was last stopped. The timestamp is displayed in the following format: Month DD, YYYY, HH:MM:SS AM/PM.

For example, Feb 5, 2024, 4:29:52 PM.

Last Stopped By

The username (e-mail address) of the user who has stopped the Monitor lately.

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