Monitoring your app
Monitoring means keeping an eye on your live app — is it up, how hard are the servers working, and is anything slowing down? The good news: The Deployer sets all of this up for you automatically. You don't have to install, configure, or connect anything. This page shows you what you get and where to find it.
Set up for you, with zero effort
The moment your app deploys, The Deployer also wires in a small monitoring stack:
- Grafana — a dashboards tool that turns raw numbers into easy-to-read charts.
- Prometheus — the piece that collects and stores those numbers (called "metrics") over time.
- Two behind-the-scenes collectors that feed Prometheus real data about your servers and your app's containers, so the charts are populated for any app on any cloud — no code changes required from you.
On top of that, The Deployer finds a health endpoint on your app (a URL it can quietly ping to confirm your app is alive) and sets up a probe that watches it. If your app doesn't have one, the Code Doctor can add it during setup.
Where to find it on the Dashboard
Everything lives on your project's Dashboard:
- Live services card — this is where the Grafana and Prometheus web addresses (URLs) appear, each with a health badge and a clickable link. Click Grafana to open your dashboards.
- Service logins card — this is where you'll find the username and password to sign in to Grafana (and any other tool). Passwords are hidden until you click the show/hide toggle. See service logins.
So the usual flow is: open Grafana from Live services, then sign in with the details from Service logins.
What you can see
Once you're in Grafana, the starter dashboard shows the essentials for any app:
- CPU usage — how busy your server's processor is (the CPU is the part that does the computing).
- Memory (RAM) usage — how much of your server's short-term working memory is in use.
- Disk and network activity.
- Per-container breakdowns, so you can see which part of your app is using what.
- Request health — whether your app is responding, based on that health probe.
You'll also spot quick CPU, RAM, and disk meters right on the Dashboard's Servers card for an at-a-glance read without even opening Grafana — see connecting to your servers.
Tip
Remember to change Grafana's default password after your first sign-in — see the reminder in service logins.