Monitor virtual appliances

The monitoring system displays VM metrics and the user can configure alerts to trigger actions if certain conditions are met within virtual appliances. If your virtual datacenter supports monitoring, but you don't see any metrics for your virtual appliance, you may need to edit your VMs and fetch metrics on the VM monitoring tab. See VM monitoring and metrics. You can also push custom metrics to your virtual appliances, for example, using collectd. See Use collectd plugin for custom metrics.

Privilege: Access virtual machine metrics

After you configure metrics, you can configure the display of metrics at the virtual appliance level.

To configure the refresh interval

Select the Refresh data every checkbox and enter a number of minutes.

Choose the metrics you wish to display, and filter by metric statistics.

To obtain the latest data from the Abiquo API, click the round arrow refresh button.

When you are fetching metrics, you can configure alarms on these metrics. See Manage cloud alarms