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title: "Monitoring VAST Databases"
slug: "monitoring-vast-databases"
tags: ["5.4"]
updated: 2026-10-28T01:53:23Z
published: 2026-10-28T01:53:23Z
canonical: "docs.vastdata.com/monitoring-vast-databases"
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> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.vastdata.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Monitoring VAST Databases

You can monitor VAST Database performance and capacity as follows:

- On the cluster's [dashboard](/docs-5-4/docs/en/dashboard) in the VAST Web UI, select VAST DB in the Performance widget to display the following database metrics:Dashboard

  - Bandwidth. The rate at which data is transmitted between the client and VAST Cluster.
  - Running. The number of currently running database queries.
  - Scanned. The number of database table rows scanned per second.
- Use predefined [analytics reports](/docs-5-4/docs/en/overview-of-analytics-reports), which can be found under Predefined Analytics in the Analytics -> Analytics page in the VAST Web UI:Analytics Reports

  - VAST DB Latency: Shows the number of running queries and the average duration of a query run on the VAST cluster.
  - VAST DB Bandwidth: Shows the number of returned or read bytes per second.
  - VAST DB Rows: Shows the number of rows that were scanned, imported, deleted, updated, inserted or filtered out per second.
  - VAST DB Requests: Shows the number of requests per request type (query data, import, insert, update, and delete).
- Create a customized analytics report using various database-related metrics.

> [!TIP]
> Tip
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> When creating a customized analytics report via VAST Web UI, search for *VAST DB* keywords to filter Available Properties for database-related entries.
- View capacity analytics on the VAST Database views in the Analytics -> Capacity page.

The analytics includes usable and logical capacity, as well as data reduction.