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For administrators: Configure VM monitoring and metrics
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Get VMs from the cloud

Filter the VMs using the vmlabel query parameter, for example, to get a VM with a label value of "yVM1"
Reference: https://wiki.abiquo.com/api/latest/AllVirtualMachinesResource.html#list-virtual-machines-of-the-user

cURL

GET all virtual machines in the cloud, filtering by label

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curl -X GET https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualmachines?vmlabel=yVM1 \ -H "Accept: application/vnd.abiquo.virtualmachines+json; version=5.1" \ -u user:password --verbose \| pjson

Sample response. Success status code: 200
Note: This request returns a collection of VMs

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{
    "totalSize": 1,
    "links": [
        {
            "rel": "first",
            "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualmachines?vmlabel=yVM1&limit=25&by=name&asc=true"
        },
        {
            "rel": "last",
            "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualmachines?vmlabel=yVM1&startwith=0&limit=25&by=name&asc=true"
        }
    ],
    "collection": [
        {
            "id": 634,
            "uuid": "cc3f0803-1f42-4baa-9e66-d6a3af406d48",
            "description": "A virtual machine",
            "coresPerSocket": 1,
            "idState": 1,
            "idType": 0,
            "type": "MANAGED",
            "highDisponibility": 0,
            "monitored": false,
            "protected": false,
            "variables": {},
            "backuppolicies": [],
            "generateGuestInitialPassword": false,
            "natrules": [],
            "vdrpEnabled": true,
            "vdrpPort": 0,
            "password": "ZtnIXKdA",
            "deallocated": false,
            "name": "ABQ_cc3f0803-1f42-4baa-9e66-d6a3af406d48",
            "label": "yVM1",
            "ram": 48,
            "cpu": 1,
            "state": "NOT_ALLOCATED",
            "creationTimestamp": 1608740019000,
            "links": [
                {
                    "title": "Abiquo",
                    "rel": "enterprise",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.enterprise+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/admin/enterprises/1"
                },
                {
                    "title": "ABQ_cc3f0803-1f42-4baa-9e66-d6a3af406d48",
                    "rel": "edit",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.virtualmachine+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634"
                },
                {
                    "rel": "asynctasks",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.asynctasks+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/asynctasks"
                },
                {
                    "title": "send mail",
                    "rel": "sendmail",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.mail+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/admin/publiccloudregions/4/enterprises/1/virtualmachines/634/action/sendmail"
                },
                {
                    "title": "cloudadmin cloudadmin",
                    "rel": "user",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.user+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/admin/enterprises/1/users/7"
                },
                {
                    "title": "vdc_vcenter",
                    "rel": "virtualdatacenter",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.virtualdatacenter+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35"
                },
                {
                    "title": "vpp_vcenter",
                    "rel": "virtualappliance",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.virtualappliance+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29"
                },
                {
                    "title": "metadata",
                    "rel": "metadata",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.metadata+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metadata"
                },
                {
                    "title": "vlan network configurations",
                    "rel": "configurations",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.virtualmachinenetworkconfigurations+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/network/configurations"
                },
                {
                    "title": "nics",
                    "rel": "nics",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.nics+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/network/nics"
                },
                {
                    "title": "disks",
                    "rel": "harddisks",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.harddisks+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/storage/disks"
                },
                {
                    "title": "NOT_ALLOCATED",
                    "rel": "state",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.virtualmachinestate+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/state"
                },
                {
                    "title": "virtual machine undeploy",
                    "rel": "undeploy",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.acceptedrequest+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/action/undeploy"
                },
                {
                    "title": "virtual machine deploy",
                    "rel": "deploy",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.acceptedrequest+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/action/deploy"
                },
                {
                    "title": "virtual machine reset",
                    "rel": "reset",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.acceptedrequest+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/action/reset"
                },
                {
                    "title": "virtual machine snapshot",
                    "rel": "instance",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.acceptedrequest+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/action/instance"
                },
                {
                    "title": "remote access",
                    "rel": "rdpaccess",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.virtualmachineconsole+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/config/rdpaccess"
                },
                {
                    "title": "tasks",
                    "rel": "tasks",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.tasks+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/tasks"
                },
                {
                    "title": "firewalls",
                    "rel": "firewalls",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.links+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/firewalls"
                },
                {
                    "title": "load balancers",
                    "rel": "loadbalancers",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.loadbalancers+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/loadbalancers"
                },
                {
                    "title": "request on demand backup",
                    "rel": "requestbackup",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.ondemandbackup+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/backup/action/request"
                },
                {
                    "title": "request a restore of a backup",
                    "rel": "requestrestore",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.restore+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/backup/action/restore"
                },
                {
                    "title": "move VM to a virtual appliance",
                    "rel": "vappmove",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.links+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/action/vappmove"
                },
                {
                    "title": "move VM to another virtual datacenter",
                    "rel": "move",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.movevm+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/action/move"
                },
                {
                    "title": "volumes",
                    "rel": "volumes",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.volumes+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/storage/volumes"
                },
                {
                    "diskControllerType": "IDE",
                    "diskLabel": "Hard disk 1",
                    "length": "64",
                    "title": "e706ed17-b6e9-4c71-8291-1e9527c44a49",
                    "rel": "disk0",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.harddisk+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/disks/148"
                },
                {
                    "title": "dstiersharedds2",
                    "rel": "datastoretier0",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.datastoretier+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/locations/4/datastoretiers/4"
                },
                {
                    "title": "protect",
                    "rel": "protect",
                    "type": "text/plain",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/action/protect"
                },
                {
                    "title": "unprotect",
                    "rel": "unprotect",
                    "type": "text/plain",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/action/unprotect"
                },
                {
                    "title": "metricsmetadata",
                    "rel": "metricsmetadata",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.metricsmetadata+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metrics"
                },
                {
                    "title": "enablemonitoring",
                    "rel": "enablemonitoring",
                    "type": "",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/enablemonitoring"
                },
                {
                    "title": "collectd",
                    "rel": "collectd",
                    "type": "application/json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metrics/collectd"
                },
                {
                    "title": "alarmssearch",
                    "rel": "alarmssearch",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.alarms+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/alarms"
                },
                {
                    "title": "clone",
                    "rel": "clone",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.virtualmachinecloneoptions+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/action/clone"
                },
                {
                    "rel": "tags",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.resourcetags+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/tags"
                },
                {
                    "rel": "tags-update",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.tags+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/tags"
                },
                {
                    "rel": "tags-format",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.tagformatrestrictions+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/tags"
                },
                {
                    "rel": "tags-create",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.tags+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/tags/action/create"
                },
                {
                    "rel": "tags-delete",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.tagkeys+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/tags/action/delete"
                },
                {
                    "rel": "tags-edit",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.tags+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/tags/action/edit"
                },
                {
                    "rel": "tags-sync",
                    "type": "",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/tags/action/sync"
                },
                {
                    "title": "VMware vCenter",
                    "rel": "hypervisortype",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.hypervisortype+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/config/hypervisortypes/VMX_04"
                },
                {
                    "title": "yVM",
                    "rel": "virtualmachinetemplate",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.virtualmachinetemplate+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/admin/enterprises/1/datacenterrepositories/4/virtualmachinetemplates/151"
                },
                {
                    "title": "Others",
                    "rel": "category",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.category+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/config/categories/1"
                }
            ],
            "usageStatistics": []
        }
    ],
    "duplicatedvms": []
}

Note that the "monitored" attribute has a value of false, which means do not fetch VM metrics

Keep the VM entity to update it. You will also need the metricsmetadata, metadata, and enablemonitoring links

Metricsmetadata link. From here you can obtain the metrics that are available for the VM

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               {
                    "title": "metricsmetadata",
                    "rel": "metricsmetadata",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.metricsmetadata+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metrics"
                },

Metadata link. You can use this link to define the metrics to retrieve

Code Block

                {
                    "title": "metadata",
                    "rel": "metadata",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.metadata+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metadata"
                },

Enable monitoring link

Code Block

                {
                    "title": "enablemonitoring",
                    "rel": "enablemonitoring",
                    "type": "",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/enablemonitoring"
                },

Obtain the metrics available for the VM

Reference: https://wiki.abiquo.com/api/latest/VirtualMachinesResource.html#list-metrics-metadata-on-a-virtual-machine

cURL

Code Block

curl -X GET "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metrics" \
     -H "Accept: application/vnd.abiquo.metricsmetadata+json;version=5.1"\
     -u user:password --verbose

Sample response. Success status code: 200

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{
    "links": [
        {
            "title": "ABQ_cc3f0803-1f42-4baa-9e66-d6a3af406d48",
            "rel": "virtualmachine",
            "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.virtualmachine+json",
            "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634"
        },
        {
            "title": "metricsmetadata",
            "rel": "self",
            "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.metricsmetadata+json",
            "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metrics"
        }
    ],
    "collection": [
        {
            "name": "Uptime",
            "description": "Total time elapsed, in seconds, since last system startup",
            "unit": "Second absolute",
            "namespace": "virtualmachine",
            "dimensions": {},
            "links": [
                {
                    "title": "Uptime",
                    "rel": "self",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.metricmetadata+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metrics/Uptime"
                },
                {
                    "title": "ABQ_cc3f0803-1f42-4baa-9e66-d6a3af406d48",
                    "rel": "virtualmachine",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.virtualmachine+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634"
                },
                {
                    "title": "Uptime",
                    "rel": "metric",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.metric+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metrics/Uptime"
                },
                {
                    "title": "alarms",
                    "rel": "alarms",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.alarms+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metrics/Uptime/alarms"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Memory-physical",
            "description": "Amount of host physical memory consumed by a virtual machine, host, or cluster",
            "unit": "Kilobytes absolute",
            "namespace": "virtualmachine",
            "dimensions": {},
            "links": [
                {
                    "title": "ABQ_cc3f0803-1f42-4baa-9e66-d6a3af406d48",
                    "rel": "virtualmachine",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.virtualmachine+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634"
                },
                {
                    "title": "Memory-physical",
                    "rel": "self",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.metricmetadata+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metrics/Memory-physical"
                },
                {
                    "title": "Memory-physical",
                    "rel": "metric",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.metric+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metrics/Memory-physical"
                },
                {
                    "title": "alarms",
                    "rel": "alarms",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.alarms+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metrics/Memory-physical/alarms"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Memory",
            "description": "Memory usage as percentage (Hundredth of a percent (1 = 0.01%). A value between 0 and 10000) of total configured or available memory",
            "unit": "Hundredth of a percent",
            "namespace": "virtualmachine",
            "dimensions": {},
            "links": [
                {
                    "title": "Memory",
                    "rel": "self",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.metricmetadata+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metrics/Memory"
                },
                {
                    "title": "ABQ_cc3f0803-1f42-4baa-9e66-d6a3af406d48",
                    "rel": "virtualmachine",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.virtualmachine+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634"
                },
                {
                    "title": "Memory",
                    "rel": "metric",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.metric+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metrics/Memory"
                },
                {
                    "title": "alarms",
                    "rel": "alarms",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.alarms+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metrics/Memory/alarms"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "CPU",
            "description": "CPU usage as a percentage (Hundredth of a percent (1 = 0.01%). A value between 0 and 10000) during the interval",
            "unit": "Hundredth of a percent",
            "namespace": "virtualmachine",
            "dimensions": {},
            "links": [
                {
                    "title": "CPU",
                    "rel": "self",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.metricmetadata+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metrics/CPU"
                },
                {
                    "title": "alarms",
                    "rel": "alarms",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.alarms+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metrics/CPU/alarms"
                },
                {
                    "title": "CPU",
                    "rel": "metric",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.metric+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metrics/CPU"
                },
                {
                    "title": "ABQ_cc3f0803-1f42-4baa-9e66-d6a3af406d48",
                    "rel": "virtualmachine",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.virtualmachine+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "CPU-Mz",
            "description": "CPU usage during the interval",
            "unit": "Megahertz rate",
            "namespace": "virtualmachine",
            "dimensions": {},
            "links": [
                {
                    "title": "ABQ_cc3f0803-1f42-4baa-9e66-d6a3af406d48",
                    "rel": "virtualmachine",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.virtualmachine+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634"
                },
                {
                    "title": "alarms",
                    "rel": "alarms",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.alarms+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metrics/CPU-Mz/alarms"
                },
                {
                    "title": "CPU-Mz",
                    "rel": "self",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.metricmetadata+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metrics/CPU-Mz"
                },
                {
                    "title": "CPU-Mz",
                    "rel": "metric",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.metric+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metrics/CPU-Mz"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "abq-cpu_usage",
            "description": "CPU usage as a percentage",
            "unit": "PERCENT",
            "namespace": "virtualmachine",
            "dimensions": {},
            "links": [
                {
                    "title": "abq-cpu_usage",
                    "rel": "metric",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.metric+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metrics/abq-cpu_usage"
                },
                {
                    "title": "alarms",
                    "rel": "alarms",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.alarms+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metrics/abq-cpu_usage/alarms"
                },
                {
                    "title": "abq-cpu_usage",
                    "rel": "self",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.metricmetadata+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metrics/abq-cpu_usage"
                },
                {
                    "title": "ABQ_cc3f0803-1f42-4baa-9e66-d6a3af406d48",
                    "rel": "virtualmachine",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.virtualmachine+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Memory-swap2",
            "description": "Rate at which memory is being swapped from active memory to disk during the current interval",
            "unit": "Kilobytes per second rate",
            "namespace": "virtualmachine",
            "dimensions": {},
            "links": [
                {
                    "title": "Memory-swap2",
                    "rel": "metric",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.metric+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metrics/Memory-swap2"
                },
                {
                    "title": "Memory-swap2",
                    "rel": "self",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.metricmetadata+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metrics/Memory-swap2"
                },
                {
                    "title": "ABQ_cc3f0803-1f42-4baa-9e66-d6a3af406d48",
                    "rel": "virtualmachine",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.virtualmachine+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634"
                },
                {
                    "title": "alarms",
                    "rel": "alarms",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.alarms+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metrics/Memory-swap2/alarms"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Memory-swap",
            "description": "Rate at which memory is swapped from disk into active memory during the interval",
            "unit": "Kilobytes per second rate",
            "namespace": "virtualmachine",
            "dimensions": {},
            "links": [
                {
                    "title": "ABQ_cc3f0803-1f42-4baa-9e66-d6a3af406d48",
                    "rel": "virtualmachine",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.virtualmachine+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634"
                },
                {
                    "title": "Memory-swap",
                    "rel": "metric",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.metric+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metrics/Memory-swap"
                },
                {
                    "title": "alarms",
                    "rel": "alarms",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.alarms+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metrics/Memory-swap/alarms"
                },
                {
                    "title": "Memory-swap",
                    "rel": "self",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.metricmetadata+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metrics/Memory-swap"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Disk-latency",
            "description": "Highest latency value across all disks used by the host",
            "unit": "Millisecond absolute",
            "namespace": "virtualmachine",
            "dimensions": {},
            "links": [
                {
                    "title": "ABQ_cc3f0803-1f42-4baa-9e66-d6a3af406d48",
                    "rel": "virtualmachine",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.virtualmachine+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634"
                },
                {
                    "title": "alarms",
                    "rel": "alarms",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.alarms+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metrics/Disk-latency/alarms"
                },
                {
                    "title": "Disk-latency",
                    "rel": "self",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.metricmetadata+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metrics/Disk-latency"
                },
                {
                    "title": "Disk-latency",
                    "rel": "metric",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.metric+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metrics/Disk-latency"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Memory-vmmemctl",
            "description": "Amount of memory allocated by the virtual machine memory control driver (vmmemctl), which is installed with VMware Tools",
            "unit": "Kilobytes absolute",
            "namespace": "virtualmachine",
            "dimensions": {},
            "links": [
                {
                    "title": "Memory-vmmemctl",
                    "rel": "metric",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.metric+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metrics/Memory-vmmemctl"
                },
                {
                    "title": "ABQ_cc3f0803-1f42-4baa-9e66-d6a3af406d48",
                    "rel": "virtualmachine",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.virtualmachine+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634"
                },
                {
                    "title": "alarms",
                    "rel": "alarms",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.alarms+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metrics/Memory-vmmemctl/alarms"
                },
                {
                    "title": "Memory-vmmemctl",
                    "rel": "self",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.metricmetadata+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metrics/Memory-vmmemctl"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "abq-ram_usage",
            "description": "RAM usage as a percentage",
            "unit": "PERCENT",
            "namespace": "virtualmachine",
            "dimensions": {},
            "links": [
                {
                    "title": "alarms",
                    "rel": "alarms",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.alarms+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metrics/abq-ram_usage/alarms"
                },
                {
                    "title": "abq-ram_usage",
                    "rel": "metric",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.metric+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metrics/abq-ram_usage"
                },
                {
                    "title": "ABQ_cc3f0803-1f42-4baa-9e66-d6a3af406d48",
                    "rel": "virtualmachine",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.virtualmachine+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634"
                },
                {
                    "title": "abq-ram_usage",
                    "rel": "self",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.metricmetadata+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metrics/abq-ram_usage"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "CPU-time",
            "description": "Percentage of time that the virtual machine was ready, but could not get scheduled to run on the physical CPU",
            "unit": "Millisecond delta",
            "namespace": "virtualmachine",
            "dimensions": {},
            "links": [
                {
                    "title": "CPU-time",
                    "rel": "metric",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.metric+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metrics/CPU-time"
                },
                {
                    "title": "CPU-time",
                    "rel": "self",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.metricmetadata+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metrics/CPU-time"
                },
                {
                    "title": "ABQ_cc3f0803-1f42-4baa-9e66-d6a3af406d48",
                    "rel": "virtualmachine",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.virtualmachine+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634"
                },
                {
                    "title": "alarms",
                    "rel": "alarms",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.alarms+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metrics/CPU-time/alarms"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Memory-host",
            "description": "Host physical memory (KB) consumed by the virtualization infrastructure for running the virtual machine",
            "unit": "Kilobytes absolute",
            "namespace": "virtualmachine",
            "dimensions": {},
            "links": [
                {
                    "title": "alarms",
                    "rel": "alarms",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.alarms+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metrics/Memory-host/alarms"
                },
                {
                    "title": "Memory-host",
                    "rel": "self",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.metricmetadata+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metrics/Memory-host"
                },
                {
                    "title": "ABQ_cc3f0803-1f42-4baa-9e66-d6a3af406d48",
                    "rel": "virtualmachine",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.virtualmachine+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634"
                },
                {
                    "title": "Memory-host",
                    "rel": "metric",
                    "type": "application/vnd.abiquo.metric+json",
                    "href": "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metrics/Memory-host"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

To define the metrics to enable, keep the metric names.

Code Block
{ "name": "abq-cpu_usage" } { "name": "abq-ram_usage" }

Get existing VM metadata

When you write to metadata, you will overwrite all existing metadata. So always start with a GET request to retrieve the existing metadata to use as the base object for adding metadata.
Reference: https://wiki.abiquo.com/api/latest/VirtualMachinesResource.html#get-virtual-machine-metadata

cURL

Code Block

curl -X GET "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metadata" \
    -H 'Accept: application/vnd.abiquo.virtualdatacenter+json;version=5.1' \
    -u user:password --verbose

Sample response. Success status code: 200. Note that the platform stores the VM startup script in metadata.
Code Block
{ "links": [] }

Prepare a metadata object for monitoring and metrics

Use the "monitoring-metrics" keyword and add the metrics to enable

Code Block
{ "links": [], "metadata": { "monitoring-metrics": [ { "name": "abq-cpu_usage" }, { "name": "abq-ram_usage" } ] } }

Update the VM metadata

Reference: https://wiki.abiquo.com/api/latest/VirtualMachinesResource.html#update-virtual-machine-metadata

cURL

Code Block

curl --verbose -X PUT -u user:password \ "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/metadata"
 -H "Accept : application/vnd.abiquo.metadata+json; version=5.1" \ 
 -H "Content-Type : application/vnd.abiquo.metadata+json; version=5.1" \ 
-d @virtualMachineMD.json

Request data for this request will be in the file named "virtualMachineMD.json".

Sample response. Success status code: 200

Code Block
{ "metadata": { "monitoring-metrics": [ { "name": "abq-cpu_usage" }, { "name": "abq-ram_usage" } ] }, "links": [] }

Enable monitoring and fetch metrics

Reference: https://wiki.abiquo.com/api/latest/VirtualMachinesResource.html#enable-fetch-of-metrics-for-a-virtual-machine

cURL

Code Block

curl -X POST "https://abiquo.example.com:443/api/cloud/virtualdatacenters/35/virtualappliances/29/virtualmachines/634/enablemonitoring" \
     -H 'Accept:text/json,application/json' \
     -u user:password --verbose

Success status code: 204 - No content

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