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name: monitoring-launch
title: Navigating to the web UI
description: After you provision an instance of the IBM Cloud Monitoring service in the IBM Cloud, and configure a monitoring agent for a metrics source, you can view, monitor, and manage metrics through the IBM Cloud Monitoring web UI.
last-updated: 2024-11-13
---

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# Navigating to the web UI
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After you provision an instance of the IBM Cloud Monitoring service in the IBM Cloud, and configure a monitoring agent for a metrics source, you can view, monitor, and manage metrics through the IBM Cloud Monitoring web UI.
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## Grant IAM policies to a user to view data
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You must be an administrator of the Monitoring service, an administrator of the Monitoring instance, or have account IAM permissions to grant other users policies.
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The following table lists the minimum policies that a user must have to be able to launch the IBM Cloud Monitoring web UI, and view data:

| Service                        | Role                      | Permission granted     |
|--------------------------------|---------------------------|------------------------|
| `IBM Cloud Monitoring` | Platform role: Viewer     | Allows the user to view the list of service instances in the Observability Monitoring dashboard. |
| `IBM Cloud Monitoring` | Service role: Writer      | Allows the user to launch the Web UI and view metrics in the Web UI.  |
{: caption="IAM policies" caption-side="top"}

For more information on how to configure these policies for a user, see [Granting permissions to launch the monitoring UI or to make REST API calls](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-iam_grant&format=markdown).


## Launch the Monitoring UI
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You launch the Monitoring UI within the context of an IBM Cloud Monitoring instance, from the IBM Cloud UI.

Complete the following steps to launch the web UI:

1. Log in to your IBM Cloud account.

    Click [IBM Cloud dashboard](https://cloud.ibm.com/login){: external} to launch the IBM Cloud dashboard.

	After you log in with your user ID and password, the IBM Cloud Dashboard opens.

2. In the navigation menu, select **Observability**.

3. Select **Monitoring**.

    The list of instances that are available on IBM Cloud is displayed.

4. Select one instance. Then, click **Open dashboard**.

    The Monitoring UI opens.