The Cloudways Velocity Monitoring section provides a central location for reviewing application resources, traffic, scheduled processes, disk consumption, and logs.
By regularly reviewing these metrics, you can identify unusual activity, investigate application errors, understand resource requirements, and take action before an issue significantly affects your application.
Monitor Your Cloudways Velocity Server
Log in to the Cloudways Platform.
From the left navigation menu, select Velocity.
Select My Servers.
Select the Server you want to monitor.
In the Server section, click on Monitoring to view the Overview.
Read the dedicated knowledge base article section by clicking here to learn more about Monitoring Overview.
Monitor the Application Resource Overview
The Overview page provides a quick summary of the application’s current resource usage.
Summary
Select the Summary tab to review the following information.
RAM Usage
RAM, also called memory, temporarily stores the information and processes required by your running application.
The RAM Usage section shows:
The amount of RAM currently being used.
The total RAM available to the application.
Consistently high RAM usage may indicate that the application is processing too many requests, storing too much data in memory, or running resource-intensive processes.
CPU Usage
CPU usage shows how much processing capacity the application is currently using.
High CPU usage can occur during:
Increased application traffic.
Complex calculations.
Application builds or deployments.
Long-running scripts.
Inefficient application code.
A temporary increase is usually normal. However, consistently high CPU usage may indicate that the application requires optimization or additional resources.
Disk Usage
Disk usage shows how much of the available storage is currently occupied.
Storage may be consumed by:
Application files.
Uploaded content.
Build files.
Dependencies.
Databases.
Cache files.
Application logs.
Monitor disk usage regularly to prevent the application from running out of storage.
Bandwidth Usage
Bandwidth usage shows the amount of data transferred by the application during the current billing or reporting period.
Bandwidth is consumed when users, services, or bots download content from or send data to your application.
Select Refresh to retrieve the latest available resource information.
View Detailed Resource Graphs
The Details tab displays resource data in graph form. It is useful for identifying changes, spikes, and repeated usage patterns over time.
Select a Resource Metric
Use the first dropdown menu to choose the resource metric you want to review. The available options may include CPU, memory, disk, or other supported application metrics.
For example, the Idle CPU metric shows the percentage of CPU capacity that is not currently being used.
A higher Idle CPU value means more CPU capacity is available. A lower value means the application is using more processing capacity.
Select a Time Period
Use the time-period dropdown to choose the monitoring interval, such as:
One hour.
Several hours.
One day.
Another available period.
The graph updates according to the selected metric and period.
Select Refresh to load the latest monitoring data.
Tip:
Review resource graphs before and after a deployment, campaign, traffic increase, or application update. This can help you understand how the change affected resource usage.
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