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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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In Abiquo, the administrator creates an OAuth application in Abiquo for collectd. See Add an application for OAuth
Assign the privilege to “Allow user to push own metrics”
On the Chef server, the administrator creates a role with the following:
The monitoring recipes to install the Abiquo collectd plugin
The OAuth tokens for the application configured
In Abiquo, users edit the VM and go to Chef, then select the appropriate collectd role.
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