The Resource Usage row contains metrics showing resource usage by cluster components The rule of thumb is to have a separate installation of VictoriaMetrics or any other monitoring solution to scrape metrics from the VictoriaMetrics components. Receive an alert notification and carefully read its message; Click on the dashboard link to verify the impact and correlate with other events; Use the information from the alert message and dashboard to identify which component, instance or pod is having issues; Go to the instance/pod and read error messages to get more context on what is happening; Act according to recommendations from the alert message, dashboard panel and log message.