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In the Abiquo multi-cloud platform you can create alerts and automationcreate alerts (see Manage alerts) and automation (see Manage action plans ) based on your custom metrics.
For example, you can automatically can automatically scale out your VMs based VMs based on your application metrics. See Manage scaling groups
After you configure collectd and the Abiquo collectd plugin, the plugin will automatically push the values from collectd to the the Abiquo API (see https://wiki.abiquo.com/api/latest/) using the Abiquo API endpoints for collectd.
For example, for a VM, or a group of VMs in a VAppvirtual appliance, or for a scaling group.
The Abiquo API then pushes the collectd metrics to the Abiquo Monitoring ServerConfigure VM monitoring and metrics . Users can then display metrics through the UI or use them for automation.
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How to install and configure collected for VMs in Abiquo
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In Abiquo, create an OAuth application in Abiquo for collectd. See Add an application for OAuth
Assign the privilege to “Allow
Allow user to push ownmetrics”metrics
Install collectd on your VM
Install the Abiquo collectd plugin ( from source (or using automation an automation similar to the example shown in the Abiquo Chef cookbook).
Configure the Abiquo API path to push the metrics to the VM in Abiquo. Check the correct format of the API path in the Abiquo API documentation
Configure your metrics in collectd
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Edit your VM and go to Monitoring
Select Fetch metrics data.
Optionally select the monitoring level on providers that support it, e.g. AWS
Select the metrics to display from the custom metrics and the built-in metrics of the cloud provider or hypervisor
Save your changes to the VM. Optionally, define a scaling group to increase the number of VMs running your application automatic scaling actions. See Define a Manage scaling groupgroups
If your VM is not running, deploy to launch the VM. Wait several minutes for the server to return metrics
On the VM icon near the top right corner, click the metrics symbol.
Or in the Virtual appliance, go to Monitoring → Virtual machines
Configure the metrics to display the required statistic, frequency, dimensions, and so on.
The platform will display the configured metrics.
Create alarms to set metric thresholds and alerts on groups of alarms, to notify or respond to changing application conditions with automation using action plans. See Cloud VM automation guide
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Automate the install of collectd using Chef
This is an example use case with Chef using the Abiquo Chef cookbook.
In Abiquo, the administrator creates an OAuth application in Abiquo for collectd. See Add an application for OAuth
Assign the privilege to “Allow user to push own metrics”
On the Chef server, the administrator creates a role with the following:
The monitoring recipes to install the Abiquo collectd plugin
The OAuth tokens for the application configured
In Abiquo, users edit the VM and go to Chef, then select the appropriate collectd role.
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Related links
Collectd website: httphttps://collectd.org/
Abiquo-collectd plugin: https://github.com/abiquo/collectd-abiquo
Abiquo Chef cookbook for the collectd plugin: https://github.com/abiquo/collectd-abiquo-cookbook
Abiquo API documentation of VM resource: VirtualMachinesResource
Push collected data to a VM: https://wiki.abiquo.com/api/latest/VirtualMachinesResource.html#push-collectd-values-on-a-virtual-machine
Example collectd metrics push: POST_cld_vdcs_X_vapps_X_vms_X_collectd_CT_app_jhttps://abiquo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/doc/pages/311365923
API how to for working with metrics: How to enable VM monitoring and metrics via API
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Example collectd data object
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Display custom
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metrics for a virtual appliance
Abiquo can display custom metrics for your virtual appliance and metrics for the group of VMs in the virtual appliance.
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