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Navigating to the web UI

Navigating to the web UI

After you provision an instance of the IBM Cloud Monitoring service in the IBM Cloud, and configure a monitoring agent for a metrics source, you can view, monitor, and manage metrics through the IBM Cloud Monitoring web UI.

Grant IAM policies to a user to view data

Note: You must be an administrator of the Monitoring service, an administrator of the Monitoring instance, or have account IAM permissions to grant other users policies.

The following table lists the minimum policies that a user must have to be able to launch the IBM Cloud Monitoring web UI, and view data:

Table 1. IAM policies
Service Role Permission granted
IBM Cloud Monitoring Platform role: Viewer Allows the user to view the list of service instances in the Observability Monitoring dashboard.
IBM Cloud Monitoring Service role: Writer Allows the user to launch the Web UI and view metrics in the Web UI.

For more information on how to configure these policies for a user, see Granting permissions to launch the monitoring UI or to make REST API calls.

Launch the Monitoring UI

You launch the Monitoring UI within the context of an IBM Cloud Monitoring instance, from the IBM Cloud UI.

Complete the following steps to launch the web UI:

  1. Log in to your IBM Cloud account.

    Click IBM Cloud dashboard to launch the IBM Cloud dashboard.

    After you log in with your user ID and password, the IBM Cloud Dashboard opens.

  2. In the navigation menu, select Observability.

  3. Select Monitoring.

    The list of instances that are available on IBM Cloud is displayed.

  4. Select one instance. Then, click Open dashboard.

    The Monitoring UI opens.

Launch the Workload Protection UI

The Workload Protection UI is only available for Monitoring instances using the Graduated Tier - Sysdig Secure + Monitor service plan.

The Graduated Tier - Sysdig Secure + Monitor plan is now deprecated. All new IBM Cloud Monitoring instances where IBM Cloud Security and Compliance Center Workload Protection functionality is also required should provision an IBM Cloud Monitoring instance with a connected IBM Cloud Security and Compliance Center Workload Protection instance.

To access the Workload Protection UI, complete the following steps:

  1. Log in to your IBM Cloud account.

    Click IBM Cloud dashboard to launch the IBM Cloud dashboard.

    After you log in with your user ID and password, the IBM Cloud Dashboard opens.

  2. In the navigation menu, select Observability.

  3. Select Monitoring.

    The list of instances that are available on IBM Cloud is displayed.

  4. Select an instance with the Graduated Tier - Sysdig Secure + Monitor service plan. Then, click Open dashboard.

    The Monitoring UI opens by default.

  5. Click the Monitor icon.

    Monitor icon
    Monitor icon

    The Switch Products selection box opens.

    Switch products
    Switch products

  6. Select Workload Protection to launch the Workload Protection UI.

For more information on using Workload Protection, see the IBM Cloud Security and Compliance Center Workload Protection documentation.