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# Monitoring Service

The Monitoring Service provides a centralized and scalable solution for monitoring and analyzing your application and infrastructure metrics.

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**Note:** Monitoring Service is currently available only through the API, without the DCD implementation.
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## Product Overview

| [<mark style="color:blue;">**Monitoring Service**</mark>](/cloud/~/revisions/AMiYziCllTKB2y2lmONY/observability/monitoring-service/overview.md)                      | An overview of the product and its components.                 |
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| [<mark style="color:blue;">**Use Cases**</mark>](/cloud/~/revisions/AMiYziCllTKB2y2lmONY/observability/monitoring-service/use-cases.md)                              | Information about various use cases of the Monitoring Service. |
| [<mark style="color:blue;">**Features and Benefits**</mark>](/cloud/~/revisions/AMiYziCllTKB2y2lmONY/observability/monitoring-service/overview/features-benefits.md) | Information about its features and benefits.                   |
| [<mark style="color:blue;">**Metric Formats**</mark>](/cloud/~/revisions/AMiYziCllTKB2y2lmONY/observability/monitoring-service/overview/metric-formats.md)           | Information about metric formats.                              |
| [<mark style="color:blue;">**Metric Sources**</mark>](/cloud/~/revisions/AMiYziCllTKB2y2lmONY/observability/monitoring-service/overview/metric-sources.md)           | Information about various metric sources.                      |
| [<mark style="color:blue;">**Metric Pipelines**</mark>](/cloud/~/revisions/AMiYziCllTKB2y2lmONY/observability/monitoring-service/overview/metric-pipelines.md)       | Information about the metric pipelines.                        |
| [<mark style="color:blue;">**Metric Types**</mark>](/cloud/~/revisions/AMiYziCllTKB2y2lmONY/observability/monitoring-service/overview/metric-types.md)               | Information about metric types.                                |

## DCD How-Tos

| [<mark style="color:blue;">**Set User Privileges for Monitoring Service**</mark>](/cloud/~/revisions/AMiYziCllTKB2y2lmONY/observability/monitoring-service/dcd-how-tos/set-privileges-monitoring-service.md) | Learn how to provide access to users and manage Monitoring Service privileges via the DCD. |
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## API How-Tos

| [<mark style="color:blue;">**Create a Monitoring Pipeline Instance**</mark>](/cloud/~/revisions/AMiYziCllTKB2y2lmONY/observability/monitoring-service/api-how-tos/create-monitoring-pipeline.md)    | Learn how to create a monitoring pipeline via the API.                              |
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| [<mark style="color:blue;">**Obtain a New Key**</mark>](/cloud/~/revisions/AMiYziCllTKB2y2lmONY/observability/monitoring-service/api-how-tos/obtain-key.md)                                         | Learn how to obtain a new key for a monitoring pipeline via the API.                |
| [<mark style="color:blue;">**Modify a Monitoring Pipeline Instance**</mark>](/cloud/~/revisions/AMiYziCllTKB2y2lmONY/observability/monitoring-service/api-how-tos/modify-monitoring-pipeline.md)    | Learn how to update an existing monitoring pipeline via the API.                    |
| [<mark style="color:blue;">**Retrieve a Monitoring Pipeline**</mark>](/cloud/~/revisions/AMiYziCllTKB2y2lmONY/observability/monitoring-service/api-how-tos/retrieve-monitoring-pipeline.md)         | Learn how to retrieve information about a specific monitoring pipeline via the API. |
| [<mark style="color:blue;">**Retrieve All Monitoring Pipelines**</mark>](/cloud/~/revisions/AMiYziCllTKB2y2lmONY/observability/monitoring-service/api-how-tos/retrieve-all-monitoring-pipelines.md) | Learn how to retrieve all monitoring pipelines via the API.                         |
| [<mark style="color:blue;">**Delete a Monitoring Pipeline Instance**</mark>](/cloud/~/revisions/AMiYziCllTKB2y2lmONY/observability/monitoring-service/api-how-tos/delete-monitoring-pipeline.md)    | Learn how to delete a specific monitoring pipeline via the API.                     |

## Quick Start

| [<mark style="color:blue;">**Send Metrics to Platform**</mark>](/cloud/~/revisions/AMiYziCllTKB2y2lmONY/observability/monitoring-service/quick-start/send-metrics-to-platform.md)         | Learn how to send metrics to the monitoring platform.     |
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| [<mark style="color:blue;">**Access Metrics from Platform**</mark>](/cloud/~/revisions/AMiYziCllTKB2y2lmONY/observability/monitoring-service/quick-start/access-metrics-from-platform.md) | Learn how to access metrics from the monitoring platform. |

## Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

To get answers to the most commonly encountered questions about the Monitoring Service platform, see [<mark style="color:blue;">**Monitoring Service FAQs**</mark>](/cloud/~/revisions/AMiYziCllTKB2y2lmONY/observability/monitoring-service/monitoring-service-faqs.md).


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