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This section describes how to work with VM monitoring and metrics |
The platform may automatically enable metrics for all
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VMs. If you have the privilege to Manage virtual machine monitoring and it is configured in your virtual datacenter, you can enable the option to
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Fetch metrics data to get built-in metrics from the hypervisor or public cloud region, as well as any custom metrics defined for your
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VM.
Enable
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VM monitoring and
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metrics
To enable
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VM monitoring and metrics
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Go to myCloud → Virtual datacenters
Edit a VM
Go to Monitoring
Select the Fetch metrics data checkbox. This will retrieve all metrics
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while the VM is deployed
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Select from the available options, for example, for AWS
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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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The abq-cpu_usage and the abq-ram_usage metrics are Abiquo standardized metrics. They show the CPU usage and RAM usage as a percentage (not a hundredth of a percent as for CPU on ESXi).
The platform will always retrieve all metrics, so you can change the metrics to display at any time. And you can use any metric for alarms and alerts, even if you do not display it.
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You may need to wait a short time for the first metrics to load.
Display Metrics for a Virtual Machine
On the virtual machine icon, click the Monitoring symbol to display the metrics.
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Display metrics for a VM
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To display and filter metrics for a VM:
To update the display of a metric, click the round-arrow refresh button. Select the filter button
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To view the exact metric values in a call-out box, mouse over the monitoring metric graph line. To create a highlight point, click on the metric graph line. To simultaneously view the data for more than one virtual machineVM, use in the virtual appliance monitoring view. |
Related pages
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go to the Monitoring section.  |