# Configure Grafana Cloud

This page guides you through importing a pre-built dashboard and verifying that metrics are flowing from your Aerospike Cloud cluster.

## Import the namespace dashboard

The namespace dashboard shows memory usage, disk usage, and object counts. These are the key metrics for scaling decisions.

1.  Download the dashboard JSON file:
    
    Terminal window
    
    ```shell
    curl -L -o namespace.json \
    
      https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aerospike/aerospike-monitoring/master/config/grafana/dashboards/namespace.json
    ```
    
2.  Open your Grafana Cloud instance at `https://YOURNAME.grafana.net`.
    
3.  In the sidebar, click **Dashboards**.
    
4.  Click **New** > **Import**.
    
5.  Click **Upload dashboard JSON file** and select `namespace.json`.
    
6.  Select a folder and click **Import**.
    

## Verify metrics

Confirm that the dashboard displays data from your cluster.

1.  Open the **Namespace View** dashboard.
    
2.  Verify that the panels show data. Key panels for scaling decisions:
    
    -   **Stop Writes / HWM breached (total)**: Critical indicator that capacity limits were hit
    -   **Data (bytes) (total)**: Shows used vs total storage
    -   **% Data used**: Percentage of disk consumed
    
    Some panels may show “N/A” for deprecated metrics. This is expected.
    
3.  If panels show no data, wait 1-2 minutes for the scrape interval, then refresh the page.
    

Troubleshooting

If metrics don’t appear after a few minutes, check the Alloy logs:

Terminal window

```shell
aws logs tail /ecs/alloy-aerospike --since 10m
```

Look for errors related to scraping or remote write.

## Additional dashboards

The [aerospike-monitoring repository](https://github.com/aerospike/aerospike-monitoring/tree/master/config/grafana/dashboards) includes additional dashboards you can import:

-   **Cluster View**: Cluster-level overview with latencies and system metrics
-   **Node View**: Node-level metrics for troubleshooting individual nodes
-   **Alerts View**: Consolidated alert visualization

See [Dashboards](https://aerospike.com/docs/database/observe/monitor/dashboards) in the database documentation for details on each dashboard and example PromQL queries.

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