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Abiquo supports collectd with an integration in the multi-cloud platform to enable you to easily work with custom VM monitoring and metrics.  in public cloud providers, including Amazon, Azure, and Google Cloud, as well as VMware vCenter.

In the Abiquo multi-cloud platform you can create alerts and automation based on your custom metrics. For example, you can automatically scale out your VMs based on your application metrics. 

After you configure collectd and the Abiquo collectd plugin, the plugin will automatically push the values from collectd to the Abiquo API using a specific Abiquo API endpoint for collectd. As with other custom metrics, the Abiquo API then pushes the collectd metrics to the Abiquo Monitoring Server.

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The Abiquo collectd plugin will automatically push all collectd metrics to the Abiquo API in PUTVAL JSON format.

The user can easily display these metrics in Abiquo, see Display VM metrics

To display the VM metrics in Abiquo:

  1. Edit your VM and go to Monitoring
  2. Select Fetch metrics data. 
  3. Optionally select the monitoring level on providers that support it, e.g. AWS 
  4. Select the metrics to display
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  5. Save your changes to the VM
  6. If your VM is not running, deploy to launch the VM. Wait several minutes for the server to return metrics
  7. On the VM icon near the top right corner, click the metrics symbol. Or for the Virtual appliance, go to Monitoring → Virtual machines 
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  8. Configure the metrics display as required
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Automate the install of collectd using Chef

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Abiquo recommends this kind of automation because the OAuth application belongs to the tenant administrator. This means that the administrator prepares the configuration for users, it is easy to apply it automatically on a large scale, and the administrator can protect the configuration from accidental changes when users load their own Chef recipes, etc.

Example collectd data object

Here is an example of a data entity to update a virtual machine with the collectd metrics specification.

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