[Yandex Cloud documentation](../../index.md) > [Monium](../index.md) > [Metrics](overview.md) > Getting started with Yandex Cloud resource metrics

# Getting started with Yandex Cloud resource metrics

Monium allows you to work with the metrics of Yandex Cloud services as well as any other metrics uploaded to Monium, e.g., from your applications, infrastructure, or other clouds.

Follow this guide to create a dashboard and widgets displaying the state of your Yandex Cloud resources.

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The Yandex Cloud resource metrics are sent to Monium automatically. Many services also provide dashboards with ready-made widgets showing the status of your cloud resources.

If you do not have any resources to test Monium, create a [VM](../../compute/operations/vm-create/create-linux-vm.md).

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## Create a new dashboard {#create-dashboard}

1. On the [Monium](https://monium.yandex.cloud) home page, select **Dashboards** on the left.
1. In the top-left corner, select the folder project containing the resource in question.
1. At the top right, click **Create**.
1. At the top right, click ![image](../../_assets/console-icons/plus.svg) and select **Heading**.
1. In the text field that appears, specify `Cross-service dashboard`.
1. Click **Save**.
   
   Headings allow you to separate dashboard sections.
1. Save the dashboard:
   1. At the top right, click ![image](../../_assets/console-icons/ellipsis.svg) and select **Save**.
   1. Specify the dashboard title.


## Add a Yandex Compute Cloud widget {#add-compute-widget}

1. At the top right, click ![image](../../_assets/console-icons/plus.svg) and select **Graph**.
1. Configure a new chart showing CPU load of all VMs in the folder, using Yandex Compute Cloud `cpu_usage` metric. To do this, select the following labels in the query constructor:
    - `cluster`=`default`
    - `service=__compute__`
    - `name=cpu_usage`
    - `resource_id=*`
    - `resource_type=vm`
1. Click **Execute query** and the page will present a chart.
1. At the top, next to the dashboard name, specify the widget name, e.g., `CPU on all hosts`.
1. Click **Apply** at the top right.
1. Return to the dashboard editing page by clicking the dashboard title (you specified earlier) at the top.

## Add a section widget {#add-section}

1. Click ![image](../../_assets/console-icons/plus.svg) and select **Section**.
1. Drag the title and chart to the section you created.
1. Next to the section name, click the settings and enter a section title, e.g., `Virtual machines`.
1. Click **Save**. 

## Save the new dashboard {#save-dashboard}

1. Change the widget size and arrange them according to your preferences.
1. Click ![image](../../_assets/console-icons/floppy-disk.svg) **Save** at the top right.

In the end, you created a dashboard with widgets displaying the resource status for different Yandex Cloud services.

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