About logging, metrics and alerting
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Administrators can configure log and metrics integrations to Aiven services so that you can monitor the health of your service.

Logs
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On the **Overview** page of your service, select **Integrations** to add an integration that will send service logs to an Aiven for OpenSearch® service. This can be an existing service, or you can choose to create a new one.

Metrics
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On the **Overview** page of your service, select **Integrations** to set up an integration to push service metrics to an M3, InfluxDB® or PostgreSQL® service on Aiven. This can be an existing service or you can create a new one to receive the metrics.

Dashboards
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You can create custom OpenSearch® or Grafana® dashboards to monitor the service.

Alerts
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The platform also has alert policies to notify you via email when a key metric rises above or below a set threshold, such as low memory or high CPU consumption. For information on setting the addresses for these emails, see :doc:`this article </docs/platform/howto/technical-emails>`.