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stage: Monitor
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group: Respond
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info: To determine the technical writer assigned to the Stage/Group associated with this page, see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/ux/technical-writing/#assignments
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# Embedding metric charts within GitLab Flavored Markdown **(FREE)**
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You can display metrics charts within
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[GitLab Flavored Markdown (GLFM)](../../user/markdown.md)
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fields such as issue or merge request descriptions. The maximum number of embedded
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charts allowed in a GitLab Flavored Markdown field is 100.
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Embedding charts is useful when sharing an application incident or performance
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metrics to others, and you want to have relevant information directly available.
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## Embedding GitLab-managed Kubernetes metrics
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> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/-/merge_requests/29691) in GitLab 12.2.
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This feature requires [Kubernetes](../../user/project/integrations/prometheus_library/kubernetes.md) metrics.
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NOTE:
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In GitLab versions 13.3 and earlier, metrics dashboard links were in the form
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`https://<root_url>/<project>/-/environments/<environment_id>/metrics`. These links
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are still supported, and can be used to embed metric charts.
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To display metric charts, include a link of the form
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`https://<root_url>/<project>/-/metrics?environment=<environment_id>` in a field
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that supports GitLab Flavored Markdown:
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```markdown
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### Summary
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**Start time:** 2020-01-21T12:00:31+00:00
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### Metrics
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https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/monitor/tanuki-inc/-/metrics?environment=1118134
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```
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GitLab unfurls the link as an embedded metrics panel:
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You can also embed a single chart. To get a link to a chart, click the
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**{ellipsis_v}** **More actions** menu in the upper right corner of the chart,
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and select **Copy link to chart**, as shown in this example:
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The following requirements must be met for the metric to unfurl:
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- The `<environment_id>` must correspond to a real environment.
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- Prometheus must be monitoring the environment.
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- The GitLab instance must be configured to receive data from the environment.
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- The user must have at least the Reporter role for the monitoring dashboard for the environment.
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- The dashboard must have data within the last 8 hours.
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If all of the above are true, then the metric unfurls as seen below:
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Metric charts may also be hidden:
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You can open the link directly into your browser for a
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[detailed view of the data](dashboards/index.md#chart-context-menu).
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## Embedding metrics in issue templates
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You can also embed either the overview dashboard metrics or individual metrics in
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issue templates. For charts to render side-by-side, separate links to the entire metrics
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dashboard or individual metrics by either a comma or a space.
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## Embedding metrics based on alerts in incident issues
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For [GitLab-managed alerting rules](alerts.md), the issue includes an embedded
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chart for the query corresponding to the alert. The chart displays an hour of data
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surrounding the starting point of the incident, 30 minutes before and after.
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For [manually configured Prometheus instances](../../user/project/integrations/prometheus.md#manual-configuration-of-prometheus),
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a chart corresponding to the query can be included if these requirements are met:
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- The alert corresponds to an environment managed through GitLab.
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- The alert corresponds to a [range query](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/api/#range-queries).
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- The alert contains the required attributes listed in the chart below.
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| Attributes | Required | Description |
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| ---------- | -------- | ----------- |
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| `annotations/gitlab_environment_name` | Yes | Name of the GitLab-managed environment corresponding to the alert |
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| One of `annotations/title`, `annotations/summary`, `labels/alertname` | Yes | Used as the chart title |
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| `annotations/gitlab_y_label` | No | Used as the chart's y-axis label |
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## Embedding cluster health charts
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> - [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/40997) in GitLab 12.9.
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> - [Moved](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/208224) from GitLab Ultimate to GitLab Free in 13.2.
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[Cluster Health Metrics](../../user/infrastructure/clusters/manage/clusters_health.md)
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can also be embedded in [GitLab Flavored Markdown](../../user/markdown.md).
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To embed a metric chart, include a link to that chart in the form
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`https://<root_url>/<project>/-/cluster/<cluster_id>?<query_params>` anywhere that
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GitLab Flavored Markdown is supported. To generate and copy a link to the chart,
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follow the instructions in the
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[Cluster Health Metric documentation](../../user/infrastructure/clusters/manage/clusters_health.md).
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The following requirements must be met for the metric to unfurl:
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- The `<cluster_id>` must correspond to a real cluster.
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- Prometheus must be monitoring the cluster.
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- The user must be allowed access to the project cluster metrics.
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- The dashboards must be reporting data on the
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[Cluster Health Page](../../user/infrastructure/clusters/manage/clusters_health.md)
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If the above requirements are met, then the metric unfurls as seen below.
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