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 # Monitoring and Logging
 
 CORD is usually configured with monitoring and logging capabilities,
-built around Prometheus and ELK Stack, respectively. Both work on
-events/logs posted to Kafka and display results on a Kibana dashboard.
+built around Prometheus and ELK Stack, respectively. Both consume
+events/metrics/logs posted to Kafka. The data they collect can be
+viewed on their respective dashboards:
+
+* **Metrics:** Collected by [Prometheus](https://prometheus.io/)
+  and viewable using [Grafana](http://docs.grafana.org/) at port 31300.
+
+* **Logs:** Collected by [Elk Stack](https://www.elastic.co/elk-stack)
+  and viewable using
+  [Kibana](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/index.html)
+  at port 30601.
+
+The following figure give a high-level overview of the monitoring and
+logging system.
+
+![Monitoring and Logging System](../images/diag_overview.png)
+
+The monitoring and logging pipelines both share a Kafka bus, with
+event topics assigned accordingly (e.g., `component.kpis.*` and
+`component.log.*`). Components also post other events to Kafka,
+but their topics are currently ad hoc and rapidly evolving.
+Rationalizing the event schema is on the near-term roadmap.