---
title: Monitors
description: >-
  Use the Monitors overlay in Cloudcraft to view monitor states for your
  resources and services, and investigate alerting monitors with Bits AI SRE.
breadcrumbs: Docs > Cloudcraft in Datadog > Overlays > Monitors
---

# Monitors

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##### Join the Preview!

The Monitors overlay is in Preview.
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## Overview{% #overview %}

The Monitors overlay shows monitors associated with your AWS and Azure resources and services, along with their current state (`Alert`, `Warn`, or `OK`). Use this overlay to identify and investigate production issues directly in your infrastructure diagram.

## View monitor status{% #view-monitor-status %}

Each resource or service with associated monitors displays an icon showing:

- The count of monitors in the highest state (`Alert` takes priority over `Warn`, which takes priority over `OK`)
- The title of the highest-priority monitor

When only one monitor is in the highest state, the diagram displays the monitor icon instead of a count.

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   alt="Cloudcraft diagram with the Monitors overlay showing monitor icons and counts on resources" /%}

## Filter monitors{% #filter-monitors %}

Use the legend at the bottom of the diagram to filter monitors by alerting status and monitor priority.

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   alt="Monitors overlay legend in Cloudcraft with filter options for alerting status and monitor priority." /%}

## Investigate monitors{% #investigate-monitors %}

### Hover panel{% #hover-panel %}

Hover over a resource or service with monitors to see a count breakdown of associated monitors by status. The hover panel includes an **Investigate with Bits AI SRE** button that loads the three most recent alerting events for the selected monitor. From there, you can initiate an investigation or view an existing one.

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   alt="Cloudcraft Monitors overlay hover panel showing a monitor count breakdown by status and the Investigate with Bits AI SRE button." /%}

For more information, see [Bits AI SRE](https://docs.datadoghq.com/bits_ai/bits_ai_sre/).

### Side panel{% #side-panel %}

Click a monitor pin on the diagram to open a side panel listing all monitors associated with that resource or service. For resource monitors, you can also initiate or view a [Bits AI SRE](https://docs.datadoghq.com/bits_ai/bits_ai_sre/) investigation for any alerting monitor from this panel.

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   alt="Cloudcraft Monitors overlay side panel showing a list of monitors associated with a resource." /%}

## Further reading{% #further-reading %}

- [Bits AI SRE](https://docs.datadoghq.com/bits_ai/bits_ai_sre/)