Display VM metrics

To display metrics of a deployed VM with metrics enabled, click the Metrics symbol on the VM icon.

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VM icon with metrics symbol

To refresh metrics data, click the circular arrows refresh button on the right.

To toggle the display of metrics, click Available metrics on the right, and select the desired metrics.

To filter metrics, click the funnel symbol. Enter the Granularity, Statistics, Period, and/or Dimensions.

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Filter metrics by granularity, statistics, period and/or dimensions

To configure the display of metrics at the virtual appliance level, do these steps.

1. Select a Virtual appliance and go to Monitoring

2. Optionally configure the refresh interval. To do this, select the Refresh data every checkbox and enter a number of minutes

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

To refresh the display with the latest data from the API, click the round arrow refresh button.

Create an alarm on a VM metric

To create an alarm on a VM metric:

1. Click the Create alarm icon on the metrics display

2. Enter the alarm Name and Description.

3. Optionally, enter the number of datapoints

4. Enter the minutes to evaluate the datapoints for. We recommend that you use all the datapoints for a longer period of time, such as 60 minutes

5. Select the Statistic, Formula, and Threshold for alarm activation

    

6. Click Save

The platform will display the alarm symbol on the VM icon and in the VM list.

If the alarm is activated, the platform will highlight the alarm symbol with a different color.

To display and manage your alarms, go to myCloud → Virtual datacenters → Alarms.

You can also use create alerts to notify you with emails when alarms are activated and use alerts to trigger action plans. See Control view for cloud alerts and action plans for more details.