---
title: Enabling advanced dashboards of OpenTelemetry metrics
intro: 'After enabling OpenTelemetry metrics collection on your {% data variables.product.prodname_ghe_server %} instance, you have access to additional dashboards with enhanced visualization and monitoring capabilities.'
versions:
  feature: ghes-opentelemetry
topics:
  - Enterprise
  - Fundamentals
  - Infrastructure
  - Monitoring
  - Performance
type: how_to
shortTitle: Enable advanced dashboards
---

{% data reusables.enterprise.opentelemetry-migration %}

{% data reusables.enterprise.opentelemetry-preview %}

## Additional dashboards

When OpenTelemetry metrics are enabled, you can turn on advanced Grafana dashboards with enhanced visualization and monitoring capabilities.

* **Elasticsearch** - Detailed metrics for search performance, indexing operations, and cluster health
* **Nomad** - In-depth monitoring of job scheduling, resource allocation, and service orchestration
* **HAProxy** - Load balancer performance metrics, connection statistics, and request routing information
* **Node Exporter** - System-level metrics including CPU, memory, disk, and network statistics for each node
* **Process Exporter** - Detailed process-level metrics for monitoring individual service performance

These dashboards provide more granular insights into your {% data variables.product.prodname_ghe_server %} instance's performance and can help with advanced troubleshooting and capacity planning.

## Prerequisites

* OpenTelemetry metrics are enabled for your {% data variables.product.prodname_ghe_server %} instance
* SSH access to your {% data variables.product.prodname_ghe_server %} instance

## Enabling advanced dashboards

{% data reusables.enterprise_installation.ssh-into-instance %}
1. Run the following command to enable advanced dashboards:

   ```shell
   ghe-config observability.metrics.advanced-dashboards-enabled true
   ```

{% data reusables.enterprise.apply-configuration %}

After running these commands, your external Grafana instance will have access to additional pre-configured dashboards.