View dashboards

Dashboards provide high-level insights into your network that you can use to further troubleshoot it. You can view metrics from network paths and web paths.

Network paths dashboard

The default network paths dashboard is automatically filtered to the paths you selected before you clicked Open Dashboard.

For paths where the target is not another Monitoring Point (single-ended), the dashboard displays the following key metrics:

  • Avg. RTT
  • AVG. loss
  • Average RTT for NetworkPath (MEAN)
  • Maximum RTT for NetworkPath (MAX)
  • Connectivity Loss
  • Total Jitter for NetworkPath (Single-Ended) (SUM)
  • Test Error for NetworkPath (SUM)
  • Single ended data packets received and sent

For paths where the target is another Monitoring Point (dual-ended), the dashboard displays the following key metrics:

  • Avg. RTT
  • AVG. loss
  • Average RTT for NetworkPath (MEAN)
  • Maximum RTT for NetworkPath (MAX)
  • Connectivity Loss (Inbound)
  • Connectivity Loss (Outbound)
  • Total Jitter for NetworkPath (Single-Ended) (SUM)
  • Dual ended inbound data packets received and sent
  • Dual ended outbound data packets received and sent

Web paths dashboard

The default web paths dashboard is automatically filtered to the paths you selected before you click Open Dashboard. It displays the following key metrics:

  • Average Total HTTP response time
  • Total transaction time
  • Failed test status for web path
  • Failed HTTP test status for WebPath (filtered) (SUM)
  • HTTP download size for WebPath (MAX)
  • HTTP download size for WebPath (MEAN)
  • HTTP download speed for WebPath (MEAN)
  • Maximum total response time for WebPath
  • Request Receive HTTP response time for WebPath (MEAN)
  • DNS Lookup HTTP response time for WebPath (MEAN)
  • TCP Connect HTTP response time for WebPath (MEAN)
  • SSL Connect HTTP response time for WebPath (MEAN)

Access the Cloud Network Insights dashboards

Cloud Network Insights provides predefined dashboards prepopulated with common troubleshooting metrics for your selected network or web paths.

  1. Open the console and go to Network Intelligence Center > Cloud Network Insights.

    Go to Cloud Network Insights

  2. Open either the Network Paths tab or the Web Paths tab.

  3. Select one or more paths, and then click Open Dashboard.

Update dashboards

To modify the dashboard, or to perform more in-depth analysis, you can also create custom dashboards using the Metrics Explorer in Cloud Monitoring.

Cloud Network Insights metrics are listed with the *networkmanagement.googleapis.com/insights/* prefix.

  • Network Metrics: networkmanagement.googleapis.com/insights/network/
  • Web Metrics: networkmanagement.googleapis.com/insights/web/

See Monitoring metrics for a full list and descriptions.

Monitoring scale limits

Cloud Monitoring has a soft scale limit of 10,000 total MonitoredResources per project. For Cloud Network Insights, this total includes all Monitoring Points, network paths, and web paths combined.

Exceeding this limit can result in significant performance degradation within Cloud Monitoring, including slow query results, dashboard failures, or unreliable alerting. Operating beyond this threshold is not recommended, as monitoring tools may not function as expected.

View additional analytics in AppNeta

Use AppNeta when you need information like hop-by-hop analysis to identify which router in a path is dropping packets or waterfall charts for seeing which specific component of a web page is slow to load.

You can view additional details in AppNeta by doing one of the following:

  • Click the Actions menu on any Path or Monitoring Point in the Cloud Network Insights UI and select Open in AppNeta.
  • In Cloud Logging, every alarm entry includes a provider_link in the jsonPayload. Clicking this link takes you directly to the diagnostic view for that specific incident in AppNeta.

For more information about the information you can view in AppNeta, see Analyze Network Monitoring Results in the AppNeta documentation.