AccelByte Multiplayer Servers (AMS) Dashboards
Overview
The AccelByte Multiplayer Servers (AMS) dashboards in Grafana Cloud offer a clear view of important metrics that affect dedicated server performance. These dashboards gather data from AMS Services, providing real-time insights into key areas such as dedicated server resource usage and availability activity.
To learn how to access and view Grafana Cloud dashboards, refer to the Access Grafana Cloud and View dashboards pages.
AMS dashboards
The AMS dashboards provided by AMS and Grafana Cloud integration are as follows:
AMS buffer sizing
The AMS buffer sizing dashboard provides a way to understand and estimate your fleets buffer configuration. Data on this dashboard is based on historical usage. The AMS buffer sizing dashboard is divided into different sections composed of Global and Region. You can filter based on Environment, Fleet Identifier, Region, and AGS Namespace.
Global
This is the global summary of your claimed servers.
| Panel | Description |
|---|---|
| Servers (Claimed) | The Total number of servers claimed across your fleet broken down by region and fleet. |
Buffer in region
This is a regional break down, with suggested buffer configuration in your fleet, based on historical usage.
| Panel | Description |
|---|---|
| Required Buffer [region: x, fleet: XYZ] | This is a summary of your required Buffer configurations, based on historical claim rates. Yellow indicates your Require buffer over 12 hours, and green indicates your short term buffers required. We recommend using this graph to model and adjust your buffer configurations as required. |
| Claimed Servers [region] | This is the actual number of server claim requests in that region at that time. |
| 10 Minute Buffer required (Long-term trend) [region] | This is the 10 Minute Peak required buffers based on historical claim rate looking back on the last 12 hour, 10 hour, 8 hour, 6 hour periods along with the MAX over the time period of the graph |
| 10 Minute Buffer required (short-term jitter) [region] | This is the peak 10 minute required buffers based on claim rate for the graph time period |
AMS cost usage
The AMS cost usage dashboard is provides a summary of your spending on AMS. This dashboard should only be considered an estimate of your spend. The Dashboard is composed of two sections, one based on your environment spend and another based on your AMS account.
Total cost current environment
Total cost based on the associated AGS environment and selected AMS account
| Panel | Description |
|---|---|
| Total Cost per Environment | Total cost of your environment for up to one year, the total cost for the previous month, and the total cost for this week. |
| All Time Cost Per Namespace($) | This is the total cost broken down by namespace, going back up to one year of AMS usage |
| All Time VM Cost ($) | This is the total cost broken down by type, going back up to one year of AMS usage |
| All Time Egress Cost ($) | This is the total cost of egress traffic, going back up to one year of AMS usage |
| Monthly Cost ($) | This is the total monthly cost |
Total cost AMS account
Total costs as measured across your AMS account.
| Panel | Description |
|---|---|
| Total Cost per AMS Account | Total cost all Time, Total cost for the past month, and Total for the past week |
| Monthly Cost ($) | Totals broken down on a month by month basis |
| VM Cost Weekly ($) | Totals broken down on a weekly basis |
| Egress Cost Weekly ($) | Total egress cost on a weekly basis |
AMS DS metrics
The AMS DS Metrics dashboard is the dashboard to use to monitor the resource usage of dedicated servers on the underlying hosts. This dashboard provides valuable insight in to how much CPU, memory, and network traffic your dedicated servers are using. The dashboard breaks down usage by region.
Filters can be applied for Environment, Namespace, AMS Fleet, Region, and DS State.
| Panel | Description |
|---|---|
| DS Max CPU Usage | This is the maximum CPU averaged across all DS processes in the fleet |
| DS Max Memory Usage | The average Max memory usage for all DS in that region and fleet |
| vCPU Idle per VM | The idle vCPU on each running VM |
| Free Memory per VM | The Free Memory on each running VM |
| Network Received per VM | Network receive traffic per VM |
| Network Transmited per VM | Network egress traffic per VM |
AMS Fleet Overview
This AMS Fleet Overview dashboard is a summary of the state of your dedicated servers. This dashboard has three main sections, Overview, All Regions, and by region.
The Overview section provides a summary of metrics that are relevant when looking at an entire fleet.
Overview
| Panel | Description |
|---|---|
| DS Creation to Ready duration | This provides the Max and P95 value for start time of the DS process. Allowing you to measure the start time of your DS process. |
| DS Claimed to Terminated duration | This provides the Max and P95 values for how long a claimed DS takes to transition to terminated state. This can be used to figure out your session lengths. |
| DS Crash Rate | The number of DS crashed across your fleet, by fleet ID and namespace |
All Regions
The All regions section allows you to view a summary of all DS across all regions.
| Panel | Description |
|---|---|
| Running DS | The number of concurrent running DS per fleet and state |
| Running DS (Stacked View) | The number of concurrent running DS per fleet and the status displayed in a stack view |
Regional
The regions section allows you to view the state of your DS in your fleet on a region by region basis, along with the claim rates in the region.
| Panel | Description |
|---|---|
| Running DS | The number of concurrent running DS per fleet and state |
| Running DS (Stacked View) | The number of concurrent running DS per fleet and the status displayed in a stack view |
| Namespace claim attempts rate | This is number of claim attempts on a regional basis. Measured from the AMS Fleet Commander Service. |
| Namespace claim success rate | This is the number of successful claims attempts on a regional basis. Measured from the AMS Fleet Commander Service. |
| Namespace claim failure rate | This is the number of failed claim attempts. Measured from the AMS Fleet Commander Service. Generally, a small number of errors are okay as session claims are retried. If this number is increasing or going up consider increasing the buffer of your fleet in this region. |