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Manage Central Monitoring
Central Monitoring is a prerequisite for letting integrated IONOS CLOUD products forward metrics to Monitoring Service on your behalf. Activating it on your contract gives you region-level control over metric ingestion. Activate Central Monitoring from the DCD or the Monitoring API. To find out which products integrate with Central Monitoring, contact your account manager or IONOS CLOUD Support.
Activate Central Monitoring on your contract before any product can ingest metrics on your behalf. The DCD provides a per-region toggle that controls this contract-level flag.
Prerequisite: Ensure you have the corresponding permissions to manage the Monitoring Service. Only contract administrators, owners, and users with Access and manage Monitoring privileges can activate or deactivate Central Monitoring. For more information, see Set User Privileges.
Turn on Central Monitoring for a region
1. In the DCD, go to Menu > Observability > Monitoring Service.
2. Select the Central Monitoring drop-down list.
Turn on Central Monitoring toggle in the DCD
3. Toggle the STATE to activate Central Monitoring for the selected region.
4. In the confirmation dialog, select Confirm.
Result: Central Monitoring is activated on your contract for the selected region. Supported products begin ingesting metrics in that region. You can view the remote-write endpoint, certificate, and API key under Connection Details.
View connection details
When metrics are activated for an integrated product, its tag appears in the Central Monitoring view within the DCD. Connection details include the remote-write endpoint, certificate, and API key for the selected region.
Connection details for Central Monitoring
Turn Off Central Monitoring for a region
1. Select the Central Monitoring drop-down list.
2. Toggle the STATE to deactivate Central Monitoring for the selected region.
3. In the confirmation dialog, select Confirm.
Result: Central Monitoring is not available on the contract for the selected region. Central Monitoring stops accepting metrics in that region regardless of whether products are still sending data, and the connection details are hidden.
