# Portal

Monitor Spice Cloud projects from the Spice.ai portal

The Spice.ai Cloud portal includes a built-in monitoring dashboard. It requires no external tools or configuration.

## Monitoring Dashboard

The **Observability** tab in your project provides real-time visibility into usage, request performance, and API activity:

- **SQL Queries**: succeeded and failed query counts, and p95 and p99 query latency.
- **AI Completions**: succeeded and failed completion counts, and p95 and p99 latency. Shown when the project has a model.
- **Embeddings**: succeeded and failed embedding search counts, and p95 and p99 search latency. Shown when the project has embeddings.
- **Acceleration**: the maximum dataset acceleration refresh duration. Shown when the project accelerates a dataset.

### Accessing the Dashboard

1. Navigate to your Spice project in the [portal](https://spice.ai/)
2. Click the **Observability** tab in the project navigation bar
3. Select a time range

The time ranges depend on the section:

- **Overview** and **API**: **Last hour**, **Last 24 hours**, **Last 2 days**, **Last 7 days**, or **Last 28 days**.
- **Cache**, **Data**, and **Resources**: **Last 1 hour**, **Last 24 hours**, **Last 7 days**, or **Last 28 days**.

Use the metrics dashboard to identify usage trends, detect spikes in query duration, and plan capacity.

## API Request Logs

The request logs provide a detailed record of individual API requests, including status codes, durations, and timestamps.

1. Open the **Observability** tab for your project
2. Select **Request Logs** in the left navigation
3. Select a time range

The Request Logs time ranges are **1 Hour**, **8 Hours**, **24 Hours**, **3 Days**, and **7 Days**. The ranges available depend on the org's plan. Every plan has **1 Hour**.

Use request logs to debug failing queries, identify slow requests, and audit API usage.

For full details, see the [Portal Monitoring](https://spice.ai/docs/cloud/portal/monitoring-and-request-logs) documentation.

See also:

- [Metrics API](https://spice.ai/docs/cloud/api/metrics) - Scrape metrics programmatically for external dashboards
- [Grafana & Prometheus](https://spice.ai/docs/cloud/monitoring/grafana) - Self-hosted monitoring with Grafana
- [Datadog](https://spice.ai/docs/cloud/monitoring/datadog) - Monitoring with Datadog