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Abiquo 5.2 increases observability of your cloud applications with new screens in the user interface to display custom metrics for virtual appliances and scaling groups, in addition to the VM metrics display.
Users can create and push custom metrics to virtual appliances and scaling groups, and many other entities using the Abiquo custom metrics API or the Abiquo collectd integration. toc
Display virtual appliance metrics
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If you already have the virtual appliance open, you can go to the Monitoring tab.
There is now a new page for the Virtual appliance metrics, in addition to Virtual machine metrics.
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Display scaling group metrics
To display scaling group metrics, you can click the new the new metrics symbol on the Scaling group icon in the top right corner.
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And if you have the scaling group open, you can click the new metrics button in the Scaling group view.
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These buttons will open the new Scaling group metrics popup. On the Virtual machines page of the popup, Abiquo displays all the VM metrics.
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On the Scaling groups page, Abiquo displays the custom metrics of the scaling group.
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To create custom metrics across the multi-cloud platform using the Abiquo API, just follow this guide: Custom Metrics Resourcesmetrics resources .
For details of how to install and use collectd with Abiquo, see Use collectd plugin for custom metrics .