# View the monitoring graphs for your instances
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After you launch an instance, you can open the Amazon EC2 console and view the monitoring graphs for the instance on the **Monitoring** tab. Each graph is based on one of the available Amazon EC2 metrics.

The following graphs are available:
+ Average CPU Utilization (Percent)
+ Average Disk Reads (Bytes)
+ Average Disk Writes (Bytes)
+ Maximum Network In (Bytes)
+ Maximum Network Out (Bytes)
+ Summary Disk Read Operations (Count)
+ Summary Disk Write Operations (Count)
+ Summary Status (Any)
+ Summary Status Instance (Count)
+ Summary Status System (Count)

For more information about the metrics and the data they provide to the graphs, see [CloudWatch metrics that are available for your instances](viewing_metrics_with_cloudwatch.md).

**Graph metrics using the CloudWatch console**  
You can also use the CloudWatch console to graph metric data generated by Amazon EC2 and other AWS services. For more information, see [Graphing metrics](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/graph_metrics.html) in the *Amazon CloudWatch User Guide*.