launch.md

copyright	lastupdated	keywords	subcollection
years 2018, 2024	2024-11-13		monitoring

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Navigating to the web UI

{: #launch}

After you provision an instance of the {{site.data.keyword.mon_full_notm}} service in the {{site.data.keyword.cloud_notm}}, and configure a monitoring agent for a metrics source, you can view, monitor, and manage metrics through the {{site.data.keyword.mon_full_notm}} web UI. {: shortdesc}

Grant IAM policies to a user to view data

{: #launch_step1}

You must be an administrator of the {{site.data.keyword.mon_short}} service, an administrator of the {{site.data.keyword.mon_short}} instance, or have account IAM permissions to grant other users policies. {: note}

The following table lists the minimum policies that a user must have to be able to launch the {{site.data.keyword.mon_full_notm}} web UI, and view data:

Service	Role	Permission granted
{{site.data.keyword.mon_full_notm}}	Platform role: Viewer	Allows the user to view the list of service instances in the Observability Monitoring dashboard.
{{site.data.keyword.mon_full_notm}}	Service role: Writer	Allows the user to launch the Web UI and view metrics in the Web UI.
{: caption="IAM policies" caption-side="top"}

For more information on how to configure these policies for a user, see Granting permissions to launch the monitoring UI or to make REST API calls.

Launch the {{site.data.keyword.mon_short}} UI

{: #launch_step2}

You launch the {{site.data.keyword.mon_short}} UI within the context of an {{site.data.keyword.mon_full_notm}} instance, from the {{site.data.keyword.cloud_notm}} UI.

Complete the following steps to launch the web UI:

1. Log in to your {{site.data.keyword.cloud_notm}} account.

   Click {{site.data.keyword.cloud_notm}} dashboard{: external} to launch the {{site.data.keyword.cloud_notm}} dashboard.

   After you log in with your user ID and password, the {{site.data.keyword.cloud_notm}} Dashboard opens.

2. In the navigation menu, select Observability.

3. Select Monitoring.

   The list of instances that are available on {{site.data.keyword.cloud_notm}} is displayed.

4. Select one instance. Then, click Open dashboard.

   The {{site.data.keyword.mon_short}} UI opens.