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To display and filter metrics for a VM:

1. Go to Virtual datacenters → Virtual appliance

2. On the VM icon → click the graph metrics symbol

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3. The metrics panel will open and you can dynamically filter and select which metrics to display. 

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To update the display of a metric, click the round-arrow refresh button.

To configure the display of the metric:

1. Select the funnel filter button

2. Set the following as required

   1. Granularity, which is how often the metric is sampled

   2. Statistic, which determines how the raw values will be processed over time

   3. "Last" period, which is how long the display will look behind at the processed data

   4. Metric dimensions: for metrics with more than one possible element being monitored, for example, multiple hard disks, you can display metric dimensions, which are metrics for separate elements.

      1. To view metric dimensions, click Get dimensions. Select a dimension.

      2. If no dimension is selected, the default value is the average of all dimensions

3. Click Accept to save the values.

To view the exact metric values in a call-out box, mouse over the metric graph line.

To create a highlight point, click on the metric graph line.

To simultaneously view the data for more than one VM, use the virtual appliance Monitoring view.

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