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To enable VM monitoring and metrics:
Go to myCloud → Virtual datacenters and edit a VM
Go to Monitoring
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Select from the available options, for example, for AWS offers Detailed or Basic monitoring.
Select the individual metrics you would like to display for your VM. The functionality and list of available metrics depend on the underlying virtualization technology and the platform configuration.
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To display and filter metrics for a VM: Go to Virtual datacenters → Virtual appliance On the VM icon → click the graph metrics symbol  Image Removed Image AddedThe metrics panel will open and you can dynamically filter and select which metrics to display.  Image Removed Image Added
To update the display of a metric, click the round-arrow refresh button. To configure the display of the metric: Select the funnel filter button Set the following as required Granularity, which is how often the metric is sampled Statistic, which determines how the raw values will be processed over time "Last" period, which is how long the display will look behind at the processed data 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. To view metric dimensions, click Get dimensions. Select a dimension. If no dimension is selected, the default value is the average of all dimensions
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.  Image Removed Image Added |