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# Monitor a service

The **Monitoring** tab collects what watches a service - its service-level objectives (SLOs) and the alerts scoped to it - so you can see the service's reliability targets and its open issues without leaving APM. The tab has two panels, switched with a toggle that shows a count on each: **SLOs** (the default) and **Alerts & Cases**. Monitoring is available for services.

Use it to:

* **Track reliability targets**: watch each SLO's status, compliance against target, and remaining error budget for the service.
* **See what's firing**: scan the alerts scoped to the service, their type and priority, and when each last triggered.
* **Reach the case behind an alert**: a firing alert has already opened a case: open its row to jump to the case and start responding.
* **Enable or silence an alert in place**: flip a rule on or off from the table without leaving the tab.

[![The Monitoring tab\'s SLOs panel: the SLOs / Alerts \& Cases switcher, a health calendar and seven-day SLO status chart, and the SLO table with status, window, target, current state, and remaining budget.](/docs/assets/images/monitoring-slos-160e8fb863b27c97b48b5a258413faaf.webp)](https://coralogix.com/docs/assets/images/monitoring-slos-160e8fb863b27c97b48b5a258413faaf.webp)

## What you need[​](#what-you-need "Direct link to What you need")

* Coralogix [Application Performance Monitoring (APM)](https://coralogix.com/docs/user-guides/apm-v2/getting-started/apm-onboarding-tutorial.md) installed and configured.
* [Span Metrics](https://coralogix.com/docs/user-guides/apm-v2/getting-started/span-metrics.md) enabled for the service.
* Monitoring is available for services. Databases do not show the tab.

## Access the Monitoring tab[​](#access-the-monitoring-tab "Direct link to Access the Monitoring tab")

1. In your Coralogix toolbar, select **APM**.
2. Select a service to open its drilldown, then select the **Monitoring** tab.
3. Use the switcher at the top of the tab to move between the **SLOs** and **Alerts & Cases** panels. Each button shows a count of the items in that panel; the tab opens on **SLOs**.

If you open the tab for a database, it shows *Monitoring is available for services only.*

## SLOs[​](#slos "Direct link to SLOs")

The **SLOs** panel lists the [service-level objectives](https://coralogix.com/docs/user-guides/apm-v2/features/service-slos.md) defined for the service in the SLO Center, with each objective's status, evaluation window, target, current compliance, and remaining error budget.

When the service has at least one SLO, a status-overview widget sits above the table: a health calendar and a seven-day status chart that summarize how the service's SLOs have tracked over the recent period.

The SLO table shows:

* **Name**: the SLO's name.
* **Status**: the worst status across the SLO's permutations: **Healthy**, **Warning**, **Critical**, **Breached**, or **Pending**.
* **Threshold**: the threshold a request must meet to count as good. Latency SLOs only; other SLOs show an em dash.
* **Window**: the rolling evaluation window, such as *7 days*.
* **Target**: the compliance target for the SLO.
* **Current state**: current compliance for the SLO.
* **Remaining budget**: the error budget left before the SLO breaches, shown as a bar that fills to the remaining percentage.

Use **Search SLOs…** to find one by name, the **All** / **OK** / **Breached** filter to narrow by status, and any column header to sort. Select a row to open the SLO in a drilldown drawer - an **SLO Overview** with compliance over time, remaining error budget, total and good events, and a per-minute snapshot. To open the full **SLO Center** instead, select **Go to SLO Center**.

If you have permission to edit SLOs, the toolbar also offers **+ Add SLO**, which opens the SLO Center create drawer with the service pre-filled. This action may not appear for all accounts. See [Service SLOs](https://coralogix.com/docs/user-guides/apm-v2/features/service-slos.md).

## Alerts & Cases[​](#alerts--cases "Direct link to Alerts & Cases")

The **Alerts & Cases** panel lists the alerts scoped to the service. A firing alert has already opened a case, so this panel is also your way into the case behind an issue - there is no separate cases list.

[![The Monitoring tab\'s Alerts \& Cases panel: the alerts scoped to the service with status, type, priority, last triggered, labels, and an inline Enabled toggle.](/docs/assets/images/monitoring-alerts-f689e3287187d9d500be4ff970971649.webp)](https://coralogix.com/docs/assets/images/monitoring-alerts-f689e3287187d9d500be4ff970971649.webp)

The table shows:

* **Name**: the alert's name.
* **Status**: whether the alert is firing right now: **Alerting** or **OK**.
* **Type**: the rule type the alert evaluates, such as *Metric - Threshold*, *Logs - Anomaly*, or *Tracing - Threshold*.
* **Priority**: the priority the alert notifies at.
* **Last triggered**: when the alert last fired, or *Never triggered*.
* **Labels**: the entity labels attached to the alert.
* **Enabled**: an inline toggle for whether the rule is currently evaluating. Flip it to enable or disable the alert without leaving the tab.

Use **Search alerts…** to find one by name and the **All** / **Alerting** / **OK** filter to narrow by status.

What a row opens depends on the alert's status:

* **A firing alert** (**Alerting**) offers a **View Cases** action that opens the case feed for the service, filtered to its APM labels, where you can work the incident. The same **View Cases** action is available from a row's action menu in the **Health** tab.
* **Any other alert** opens the alert's drilldown in a new tab.

To open the full [Alerts](https://coralogix.com/docs/user-guides/alerting/introduction-to-alerts.md) screen, select **Go to Alerts**. To create an alert prefilled from a service's metrics, see [APM monitoring with alerts](https://coralogix.com/docs/user-guides/apm-v2/features/monitoring-with-alerts.md).

Note

If you don't have permission to view SLOs or alerts, the corresponding panel shows a message instead of the table. Enabling or disabling an alert also requires permission; without it, the **Enabled** toggle is disabled.

## Next steps[​](#next-steps "Direct link to Next steps")

Define a reliability target for the service in [Service SLOs](https://coralogix.com/docs/user-guides/apm-v2/features/service-slos.md).

## Additional resources[​](#additional-resources "Direct link to Additional resources")

* [Service SLOs](https://coralogix.com/docs/user-guides/apm-v2/features/service-slos.md)
* [APM monitoring with alerts](https://coralogix.com/docs/user-guides/apm-v2/features/monitoring-with-alerts.md)
* [Cases](https://coralogix.com/docs/user-guides/cases/overview.md)