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= About {product-title} monitoring
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ifndef::openshift-dedicated,openshift-rosa[]
{product-title} includes a preconfigured, preinstalled, and self-updating monitoring stack that provides monitoring for core platform components. You also have the option to xref:../../../observability/monitoring/configuring-user-workload-monitoring/preparing-to-configure-the-monitoring-stack-uwm.adoc#enabling-monitoring-for-user-defined-projects-uwm_preparing-to-configure-the-monitoring-stack-uwm[enable monitoring for user-defined projects].

A cluster administrator can xref:../../../observability/monitoring/configuring-core-platform-monitoring/preparing-to-configure-the-monitoring-stack.adoc#preparing-to-configure-the-monitoring-stack[configure the monitoring stack] with the supported configurations. {product-title} delivers monitoring best practices out of the box.

A set of alerts are included by default that immediately notify administrators about issues with a cluster. Default dashboards in the {product-title} web console include visual representations of cluster metrics to help you to quickly understand the state of your cluster. With the {product-title} web console, you can xref:../../../observability/monitoring/accessing-metrics/accessing-metrics-as-an-administrator.adoc#accessing-metrics-as-an-administrator[access metrics] and xref:../../../observability/monitoring/managing-alerts/managing-alerts-as-an-administrator.adoc#managing-alerts-as-an-administrator[manage alerts].

After installing {product-title}, cluster administrators can optionally enable monitoring for user-defined projects. By using this feature, cluster administrators, developers, and other users can specify how services and pods are monitored in their own projects.
As a cluster administrator, you can find answers to common problems such as user metrics unavailability and high consumption of disk space by Prometheus in xref:../../../observability/monitoring/troubleshooting-monitoring-issues.adoc#troubleshooting-monitoring-issues[Troubleshooting monitoring issues].
endif::openshift-dedicated,openshift-rosa[]

ifdef::openshift-dedicated,openshift-rosa[]
In {product-title}, you can monitor your own projects in isolation from Red{nbsp}Hat Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) platform metrics. You can monitor your own projects without the need for an additional monitoring solution.

The {product-title} monitoring stack is based on the link:https://prometheus.io/[Prometheus] open source project and its wider ecosystem.
endif::openshift-dedicated,openshift-rosa[]
