Cloudways Autonomous offers a detailed analytics view to help you monitor your application’s performance, usage, and costs effectively.
With this article, you can learn to track metrics such as resource usage, traffic patterns, bandwidth consumption, disk usage, and autoscaling events — all in one place.
This guide will walk you through how to access and understand these analytics, so you can make informed decisions to maintain optimal performance and manage costs efficiently.
Table of Contents:
Navigating to Analytics
Follow these steps to access analytics for your application:
Step #1 - Head to Application:
From your Cloudways Autonomous dashboard, click on Applications and select the specific application you want to review.
Step #2 - Head to the Performance Tab:
Within your application view, click the Performance tab. This section displays detailed insights about your application's analytics and usage.
Understanding Analytics
The Analytics section provides an overview of your application’s usage metrics — including visits, bandwidth, disk space, and performance trends over time.
Resource Usage
Total Visits
Displays the total number of unique visits your application has received.This metric excludes bot traffic, static IP requests, and HTTP 403/429 status codes.
It is unmetered, meaning changing your plan won’t affect this count.
Total Bandwidth
Shows the total data transfer used by your application.Bandwidth overages occur when your usage exceeds the bandwidth included in your plan.
Total Disk Space
Indicates the total storage space used by your application, including web files and database data.Disk overages occur when your usage exceeds your allocated plan limit.
Bandwidth Usage Graph
The Bandwidth Usage Graph displays trends for the last 30 days and provides insights into your application’s traffic and data transfer.
You can toggle the Visits filter on or off to visualize how both bandwidth and visits trend over time.
The graph includes the following visibility options:
Bandwidth Used: The total bandwidth consumed to date.
Plan Bandwidth: The amount of bandwidth included in your plan.
Overage Bandwidth: Any additional usage beyond your plan’s limit.
Visits: The number of visits during the same time frame.
You can toggle the Visits filter on or off within the graph to compare how your application’s bandwidth and traffic trends relate over time.
Understanding the Trends
Low Visits, Low Bandwidth
Possible Causes: Low site traffic, new or inactive website, broken links, or weak SEO.
Suggestions: Improve SEO, promote content, verify site uptime.
High Visits, High Bandwidth
Possible Causes: High-demand content, large media files, or inefficient caching.
Suggestions: Optimize caching and compression, use a CDN, monitor performance.
Low Visits, High Bandwidth
Possible Causes: Large downloads, automated scraping, or backups.
Suggestions: Audit large files, use rate limiting or bot protection, compress assets.
High Visits, Low Bandwidth
Possible Causes: Cached pages, short sessions, or efficient CDN usage.
Suggestions: Verify traffic quality, enhance user engagement, maintain caching optimizations.
Disk Space Usage
This section shows the current disk usage and a detailed breakdown of what contributes to it.
Average Disk Space: The average storage currently used by your application.
Plan Disk Space: The storage limit included in your plan.
Overage Disk Space: The additional storage used beyond your plan’s limit.
Disk Space Breakdown
Top 5 Web Files/Folders: Displays the largest files or folders inside your public_html directory.
Top 5 Database Tables: Lists the top five database tables consuming the most space.
Refresh Option: Click Refresh to view the latest disk usage breakdown.
Tip: For a quick overview of disk usage, use this section to identify large files or database tables consuming excess space.
Autoscaling Overview
The Autoscaling section helps you monitor how your application scales based on demand and how it affects your cost.
Current Servers in Use: Shows the number of Kubernetes Autoscale Serverss (Autoscale Servers) currently running your application.
Max Servers Count: Displays the maximum number of Autoscale Servers your plan supports.
Autoscale Events: Indicates the total number of times autoscaling was triggered (e.g., if scaling occurred 7 times in a day, it shows 7).
Total Overage Cost: The total cost incurred due to autoscaling beyond your plan’s limit.
Autoscaling Costs and Budgets
You can set a budget limit to control your autoscaling expenses.
Example Calculation:
If you are on the first plan and your application runs 5 Autoscale Serverss for 3 hours, with an hourly charge of $0.07 per Autoscale Servers, the cost will be:
0.07 (hourly charge per Autoscale Servers) × 5 (Autoscale Serverss) × 3 (hours) = $1.05
This gives you a transparent overview of how scaling impacts your billing.
Autoscaling Graphs and Breakdown
Autoscaling Overages Over Time:
A graph showing your autoscaling costs over a specific period, helping you identify when costs spiked.
Server Usage Over Time:
Displays how many Autoscale Serverss were in use during different days of the month.
Detailed Breakdown of Server Usage
A detailed table shows when autoscaling occurred and the corresponding cost breakdown:
Field | Description |
Date | When autoscaling was triggered. |
Plan | The plan your app was using at that time. |
Default Servers | The number of servers included in your plan. |
Autoscaling Servers | Additional servers added temporarily. |
Rate Per Server | Hourly charge per autoscaled server. |
Overage Cost | The total cost incurred due to autoscaling. |
Conclusion
The Analytics section in Cloudways Autonomous is your central place to monitor application usage, cost trends, and scaling behavior.
By regularly reviewing these metrics, you can ensure optimal performance, identify cost-saving opportunities, and maintain your application’s health efficiently.
That’s it! We hope this article was helpful.
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