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Cisco ACI Dashboard
Published On Jun 02, 2026 - 4:18 AM

Cisco ACI Dashboard

Learn about the different Cisco ACI dashboards available and the information each can offer.
Cisco ACI, or Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure, is a software-defined networking (SDN) solution specifically designed for data centers. It employs a policy-based approach to enhance security, performance, and scalability, meeting the demands of modern applications. This solution enables organizations to manage complex environments more effectively through network automation, which increases operational efficiency. Cisco ACI enables network infrastructure to be defined by policies, simplifying, optimizing, and accelerating the application deployment lifecycle.
Cisco ACI consists of four dashboards that provide a comprehensive view of monitoring data center solutions. These dashboards include oversight of devices such as controllers and nodes (both spine and leaf nodes), as well as the management of logical sections like policies.
To access the Cisco ACI dashboard, navigate to
Dashboards
, select
Network Management
, and then
Cisco ACI
. Alternatively, you can find the dashboard using the search bar under the
Insights
 tab.

Technical prerequisites

  • CISCO ACI is deployed and accessible
  • Data Streaming service and SynApps setup with a topic

Cisco ACI - Home

The Cisco ACI Home page offers an overview of all metrics. To access the dashboard, navigate to
Dashboards
, select
Network Management
, and then choose
Cisco ACI
. Alternatively, use the search bar under the
Insights
tab to find the dashboard.
This section provides details about the most recent data load and the status of data processing. It also includes navigation links to other dashboards. From the available drop-down menu, you can select the customer name, site name, components, and IP address.

Features

Inventory:
The Inventory section displays the health status of both the DOMAINS and the FABRIC.
DOMAINS:
The controller's availability status is displayed. The Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) is the main component of the Cisco ACI solution, serving as the central point for automation, management, policy enforcement, and health monitoring of the Cisco ACI fabric.
FABRIC:
The health status of POD, SPINE, and LEAF components is classified as Healthy, Warning, or Critical. "Fabric" refers to the layout of computing, networking, and software elements in a data center, including device connections. A Pod consists of interconnected ACI leaf and spine switches managed by an APIC cluster.
Alerts:
The Alerts section provides an overview of critical faults in Cisco ACI, including customer and site names, fault causes, and instance counts. You can export these details in raw or formatted format as needed.
APIC and POD Health Trends:
This section offers insights into APIC and POD Health Trends.
  • CPU % Per Device:
     The line graph displays timestamps on the X-axis and CPU usage per device on the Y-axis. You can hide or deselect the API, and the line graph will update accordingly.
  • Memory % Per Device:
     The line graph shows timestamps on the X-axis and Memory % per device on the Y-axis. You can hide the API, and the line graph will update accordingly.
  • Storage Utilization % Per Device:
     The line graph shows timestamps on the X-axis and storage utilization percentages for each device on the Y-axis. You can deselect or hide any APIC, and the graph will update in response.
  • Health % Per Device:
     The line graph shows timestamps on the X-axis and health percentages for each device on the Y-axis. Deselect any Pod or Spine to hide it and update the graph. Hover over a device for detailed information.
Leaf and Spine Inventory Insight:
This section offers insights into the health of the CPU and memory. You can view the following metric details:
  • Device Count Per CPU Health:
    This bar chart shows the unique device count by CPU health, filtered to critical, warning, and healthy. You can also select any one of the filters (critical, warning, and wholesome) to visualize the data.
  • Device Count Per Memory Health:
     This bar chart provides a unique count of devices by memory health, filtered by the critical, warning, and healthy states.
  • Device Count per Site:
    This chart provides details on device counts per site.
  • Cisco ACI - Landing Page - Leaf Spine Inventory:
     This section provides insights into the Leaf Spine Inventory, including Site Name, role, In-Band Address, Mac Address, state, and more. You can export these details in raw or formatted options as needed.
Tenants' Insight:
Displays an overview of tenants, including counts for tenants, VRFs, bridge domains, EPGs, and application profiles.
  • Tenant Health Over Time:
     This line graph displays the time stamp on the X-axis and tenant health on the Y-axis.
  • Top 5 Tenant:
    Displays the top 5 tenants for the account in the Pie chart.
  • Tenant Status:
    The Tenant status includes customer name, site name, count, and more. Use filters to retrieve specific information, and export details in raw or formatted formats as needed.

Cisco ACI Faults

The Cisco ACI Faults dashboard offers valuable insights into faults, their causes, and health trends. To access the dashboard, navigate to
Dashboards
, select
Network Management
, and then choose
Cisco ACI
 followed by
Cisco ACI Faults
.
The dashboard displays the latest data load and processing information, along with links to other dashboards. You can select the customer name, site name, cause, and severity from the available drop-down menus according to your specific needs.

Features

You can view the following metrics details:
  • Cisco ACI - Fault Details - Critical:
     The number of faults is displayed based on severity, with a focus on critical issues.
  • Cisco ACI - Fault Details - Major:
     Shows the number of faults categorized by severity level, specifically highlighting major issues.
  • Cisco ACI - Fault Details - Minor:
     The display shows the number of minor faults, categorized by severity.
  • Cisco ACI - Fault Details - Warning:
     Displays the number of faults categorized by warning severity.
  • Cisco ACI - Fault Details - Cleared:
     This section shows the number of faults that have been fixed or cleared.
  • Cisco ACI - Fault Details - Fault By Type:
     This pie chart shows details of faults categorized by type, including the number of faults and their corresponding percentages.
  • Cisco ACI - Fault Details - Fault By Cause:
     This pie chart shows fault details categorized by cause. You can see the quantity of faults per cause along with the corresponding fault percentage.
  • Cisco ACI - Fault Details - Fault Domain:
     This pie chart illustrates fault details categorized by fault domain, displaying the number of fault domains and their corresponding fault percentages.
  • Cisco ACI - Fault Details - Fault By Domain & Severity:
    This bar graph shows fault details by domain and severity, with domains on the X-axis and record counts on the Y-axis. Filters can also be applied for specific fault details.
  • Cisco ACI - Fault Details - Fault By Type & Severity:
     This pie chart displays fault details categorized by type and severity. You can also apply filters to view specific fault details.
  • Cisco ACI - Fault Details - Top Fault By Rule:
     This bar graph displays the top Fault by rule. The X-axis shows the count, and the Y-axis shows the Fault rule.
  • Cisco ACI - Fault Details - System Faults:
     This graph shows system faults by severity, with severity on the X-axis in descending order and count on the Y-axis.
  • Cisco ACI - Fault Details - Fault Overall Details:
     Provides overall fault details, including customer name, Severity, cause, and timestamp. You can also export the Fault overall details via the
    Export option
    , in raw or formatted format, as required.

Cisco ACI Tenant Details

The Cisco ACI Tenant Details dashboard provides clear information about managing the data center. It shows details about health trends and overall performance. To access the dashboard, navigate to
Dashboards
, select
Network Management
, and then choose
Cisco ACI
 followed by
Tenant Details.
You can find information about the latest data load and data processing, along with links to other dashboards. From the available drop-down menu, you can select the customer name, site name, tenant, VRF, bridge domain, and EPG. The details will be displayed based on your filter selections.
  • Customer name:
     Provides the customer's name.
  • Site name:
     Provides details of the site.
  • Tenant:
     A tenant is a container for application policies that allows administrators to enforce domain-based access control. It isolates policies without indicating a private network and can represent customers, organizations, or group policies for convenience.
  • VRF:
    Virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) IP technology enables multiple independent routing tables within a single router, allowing overlapping IP addresses without conflict.
  • Bridge Domain:
    The Bridge Domain is a logical interface that enables bidirectional traffic flow within a Layer-2 network.
  • EPG:
    Endpoint Groups (EPGs) are logical entities that consist of a collection of endpoints with standardized policy requirements.
  • Application Profile:
    An application profile (AP) is a container for endpoint groups (EPG).
  • Tenant Detail:
    The Tenant Detail table offers an overview of the tenant, including Name, Health, VRF, EPG, and Bridge domain. You can export the data in RAW or FORMATTED format.

Cisco ACI Leaf and Spine Health Dashboard

In Cisco ACI, the Spine-Leaf architecture enhances data center connectivity. The "spine" is a key component of this design. With a two-layer, full-mesh topology, the leaf layer connects access switches to servers and users, while the spine layer consists of routing switches at the core. This architecture reduces hop count and minimizes network latency, making it an efficient solution for data centers.
The Spine-Leaf architecture offers several advantages:
  • Improved Redundancy
  • Increased Bandwidth
  • Improved Scalability
  • Lower Costs
  • Low Latency and Congestion Avoidance
  • Energy Efficient
The Cisco ACI Leaf-Spine Health dashboard provides insights into controllers and nodes, including health trends, CPU usage, and memory utilization. To access the dashboard, navigate to
Dashboards
, select
Network Management
, and then choose
Cisco ACI
 followed by
Cisco ACI-Leaf and Spine Health.
Access the latest data load information and other dashboards. Select customer name, site name, component, and IP address from the drop-down menu.

Fabric details

The term
fabric
 refers to the arrangement of computing, networking, and software components within a data center. It includes a network that connects devices such as access points, switches, and routers, enabling data to reach its intended destination. The
Fabric Current Details
section provides the current status of CPU and memory usage for both Spine and Leaf components. Below is a list of the available details in the Fabric Current section.
  • Site name:
    Provides the site name.
  • APIC Health:
    Provides the APIC Health status.
  • APIC CPU Utilization:
    Provides the percentage of APIC CPU Utilization.
  • APIC Memory Utilization:
    Provides the percentage of APIC memory Utilization.
  • Cisco ACI Leaf Spine Health - Spine Health:
    This pie chart provides the leaf spine health (Critical/Warning/Healthy).
  • Spine CPU Utilization:
    This pie chart provides the spine CPU utilization percentage (Critical/Warning/Healthy).
  • Spine Memory Utilization:
    This pie chart provides the spine memory utilization percentage (Critical/Warning/Healthy).
  • Leaf Health:
    This pie chart provides the leaf health (Critical/Warning/Healthy).
  • Leaf CPU Utilization:
    This pie chart provides the percentage of leaf CPU utilization (Critical/Warning/Healthy).
  • Spine Memory Utilization:
    This pie chart provides the percentage of spine memory utilization (Critical/Warning/Healthy).
  • Fabric Overall Details:
    The Fabric Overall table
    provides a detailed view of the Fabric Overall. It includes Account Name, Site Name, Role, % CPU used, % memory used, etc. The search option is available. You can also export the table contents in RAW or FORMATTED format.

Fabric Historical Details

The
Fabric Historical Details
 section provides insights into CPU performance, memory utilization, and the health status of the Spine and Leaf components. Below is a list of the details available in the
Fabric Historical
section. Additionally, you can customize the time range for all insights to fit your specific requirements.
  • Spine And Leaf CPU Utilization Per Site:
    Provides the % CPU utilization per site.
  • Spine & Leaf Memory Utilization Per Site:
     Provides the % memory utilization per site.
  • Spine and Leaf CPU Utilization Per Device:
    This line graph
    provides the % of Spine and Leaf CPU utilization per device on the Y-axis and the timestamp on the X-axis.
  • Spine and Leaf Memory Utilization Per Device:
    This line graph
    provides the % of Spine and Leaf memory utilization per device on the Y-axis and the timestamp on the X-axis.
  • Device Count Per CPU Health:
    Provides the number of devices based on the CPU health status (Critical/Warning/Healthy).
  • Device Count Per Memory Health:
    Provides the number of devices based on the memory health status (Critical/Warning/Healthy).
  • Overall Spine & Leaf CPU Health:
    This line graph shows % CPU utilization on the Y-axis and timestamps on the X-axis.
  • Overall Spine & Leaf Memory Health:
     This line graph shows % memory utilization on the Y-axis and timestamps on the X-axis.
  • Fabric Overall Details:
     The Fabric Overall table
    provides a detailed view of the Fabric Overall. It includes Account Name, Site Name, Tenant Health, % CPU used, % memory used, etc. The search option is available. You can also export the table contents in RAW or FORMATTED format.
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