Create a Monitoring Pipeline

A monitoring pipeline refers to an instance of the Monitoring Service set up to receive, process, and store metric data from various sources.

To create a monitoring pipeline, follow these steps:

Prerequisite: Ensure you have the corresponding permissions to create and manage the Monitoring Service. Only contract administrators, owners, and users with Access and manage Monitoring privileges can create a monitoring pipeline. For more information, see Set User Privileges.

1. In the DCD, go to Menu > Observability > Monitoring Service.

2. Click Create monitoring pipeline from the Monitoring Service overview page.

3. Configure the following details for a monitoring pipeline:

• Name: Enter a name for the monitoring pipeline. The name is only for your reference and must not be unique. Example, my-monitoring-pipeline.
• Location: Select a location from the drop-down list to create the monitoring pipeline in that specific region. The location determines where your metrics will be processed and stored.

4. Click Create to create a monitoring pipeline.

Create a monitoring pipeline

Result: The monitoring pipeline is successfully created. An API key is provided which is needed to configure your metrics agent to send metrics to the pipeline's remote-write endpoint.

Note: Store the API key in a secure place. The key is only displayed on pipeline creation and cannot be retrieved afterwards.