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Edit your VM and go to Monitoring
Select Fetch metrics data.
Optionally select the monitoring level on providers that support it, e.g. AWS
Select the metrics to display from the custom metrics and the built-in metrics of the cloud provider or hypervisor
Save your changes to the VM. Optionally define a scaling group to increase the number of VMs running your application automatic scaling actions. See Define a scaling group
If your VM is not running, deploy to launch the VM. Wait several minutes for the server to return metrics
On the VM icon near the top right corner, click the metrics symbol. Or in the Virtual appliance, go to Monitoring → Virtual machines
Configure the metrics to display the required statistic, frequency, dimensions, and so on.
Create alarms to set metric thresholds and alerts on groups of alarms, to notify or respond to changing application conditions with automation using action plans. See Cloud VM automation guide
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Collectd website: http://collectd.org/
Abiquo-collectd plugin: https://github.com/abiquo/collectd-abiquo
Abiquo Chef cookbook for the collectd plugin: https://github.com/abiquo/collectd-abiquo-cookbook
Abiquo API documentation of VM resource: VirtualMachinesResource
Push collected data to a VM: https://wiki.abiquo.com/api/latest/VirtualMachinesResource.html#push-collectd-values-on-a-virtual-machine
Example collectd metrics push: POST_cld_vdcs_X_vapps_X_vms_X_collectd_CT_app_j
API how to for working with metrics: How to enable VM monitoring and metrics via API
Example collectd data object
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Display custom VApp metrics
Abiquo can display custom metrics for your virtual appliance and metrics for the group of VMs in the virtual appliance.
To display custom metrics for the virtual appliance:
On a Virtual appliance card, click the Monitoring button OR
Open a Virtual appliance and go to Monitoring tab → Virtual appliance metrics page.
To configure the display of metrics:
For the refresh interval, select the Refresh data every checkbox and enter a number of minutes.
To filter metric statistics, click on the Filter button and select the granularity, statistic, time frame, and dimension, as required.
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