Enable VM monitoring and metrics

The platform may automatically enable metrics for all VMs. If you have the privilege to Manage virtual machine monitoring and it is configured in your virtual datacenter, you can enable the option to fetch built-in metrics from the hypervisor or public cloud region, as well as any custom metrics defined for your VM.

Enable Monitoring and Metrics

To enable VM monitoring and metrics:

1. Go to Virtual datacenters → edit VM → Monitoring
   
   
2. Select the Fetch metrics data checkbox. This will retrieve all metrics while the VM is deployed
3. Select from the available options, for example, for AWS offers Detailed or Basic monitoring.
4. Select the individual metrics you would like to display for your VM. The functionality and list of available metrics depend on the underlying virtualization technology and the platform configuration. 

The platform 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 if you do not display it. You may need to wait a short time for the first metrics to load.