Enable Monitoring and Metrics
To enable virtual machine monitoring and metrics, edit the virtual machine and go to the Monitoring tab.
Mark the fetch metrics checkbox. This will retrieve all metrics for the deployed virtual machine.
Select from the available options, for example, for AWS, you can select detailed or basic monitoring.
The functionality and list of available metrics depend on the underlying virtualization technology and the platform configuration.
Select the individual metrics you would like to display for your virtual machine. Abiquo 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 you do not display it.
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.
The metrics panel will open. From Abiquo 4.0.2 you can dynamically filter and select which metrics to display.
Select the refresh button to update the display of a metric.
Select the filter button to configure the display of the metric.
Set the
- 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 monitoring graph line.
To create a highlight point, click on the metric graph line.
To simultaneously view the data for more than one virtual machine, use the virtual appliance monitoring view.
Related pages
- Main VM configuration page: Configure Virtual Machines
- Create alarms for when monitoring thresholds are exceeded: VM Alarms
- Monitoring at virtual appliance level, create alerts and action plans including scaling based on monitoring: Monitoring and Control and Scaling