When navigating to the Cloud Manager dashboard for the first time, the Monitoring tab appears. The Monitoring tab allows you to select a monitoring object or a group of objects, such as projects, regions, instances groups, or VM instances, and review the data associated with your selection.
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 On the actions bar, click Monitoring.   | 
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For more information, see the following topics:
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The Projects view shows the data collected for a specific or all Google Cloud projects.
The Projects Quick View displays the following features:
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 Summary - All Projects view: Shows the projects with Top CPU Utilization, Top Memory Utilization, Top Network Consumers, and Top Disk Consumers.  | 
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 Resource Information: Shows the basic information for the selected project, including Parent, Project Number, Default Network Tier, Default Service Account, XPN Project Status, and Life Cycle State.  | 
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 Related Items: Shows the relation and hierarchy for the selected project.  | 
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 Resource Utilization: Shows the CPU Utilization, Network Utilization, Memory Utilization, and Disk Utilization for the selected project.  | 
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 Alarms: Shows all the alarms related to the selected project, or all the alarms related to the projects under the selected service.  | 
Click Explore to open the Project Explorer view.
The Project Explorer view visually displays the detailed information of the project.
The Regions view shows the data collected about a specific region or all Google Cloud regions.
The Regions Quick View displays the following features:
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 Summary - All Regions view: Choose different projects by Filter by project and view the region where the VM instances belongs to.  | 
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 A single Region Details view  | 
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 Related Items: Shows the relation and hierarchy for the selected region.  | 
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 VM Instances table: Shows the Status, Name, CPU Utilization, and Memory Utilization of the VM Instances for the selected region.  | 
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 Alarms: Shows all the alarms related to the selected region, or all the alarms related to the regions under the selected service.  | 
Click Explore to open the Region Explorer view.
The Region Explorer view visually displays the detailed information of the region.
The Instance Groups view shows the data collected for a specific or all Google Cloud instance groups.
The Instance Groups Quick View displays the following features:
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 Summary - All Instance Groups view: Shows the instance groups with Top CPU Utilization, Top Memory Utilization, Top Network Consumers, and Top Disk Consumers.  | 
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 A single Instance Group Summary view  | 
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 Instance Group Information: Shows the basic information for the selected instance group, including Project name, Region, Creation time, Instance Template, Is Managed, and Instance Count.  | 
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 Related Items: Shows the relation and hierarchy for the selected instance group.  | 
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 Resource Utilization: Shows the CPU Utilization, Network I/O, Memory Utilization, and Disk I/O for the selected instance group.  | 
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 Alarms: Shows all the alarms related to the selected instance group, or all the alarms related to the instance groups under the selected service.  | 
Click Explore to open the Instance Group Explorer view.
The Instance Group Explorer view visually displays the detailed information of the instance group.