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title: About OpenShift Container Platform monitoring
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# About OpenShift Container Platform monitoring {#about-ocp-monitoring}

OpenShift Container Platform includes a preconfigured, preinstalled, and self-updating monitoring stack that provides monitoring for core platform components. After installing OpenShift Container Platform, cluster administrators can optionally enable monitoring for user-defined projects. By using this feature, cluster administrators, developers, and other users can specify how services and pods are monitored in their own projects.

> [!NOTE]
> The monitoring stack documentation is available as a separate documentation set at [Monitoring stack for Red Hat OpenShift](https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/monitoring_stack_for_red_hat_openshift/latest).