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  <title>Monitoring Cloud VM Performance</title>
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    <p>You can monitor the performance of cloud VM instances in the following ways:</p>
    
    <ul><li><p>Use the virtual machine monitoring tools in <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/vbox-mgr"/>.</p>
        <ul><li><p>To show detailed performance data for a cloud VM:</p>
        <p>Click the cloud VM name in the <uicontrol>Machines</uicontrol> list and click <uicontrol>Resource Use</uicontrol>.</p>
            <p>Several time series charts are displayed, showing resource usage and performance
              data. To save the data to file, click <b>Export</b>.</p></li>
        <li><p>To show a performance summary for all cloud VMs:</p>
        <p>Click <b>Resources</b> to see a summary of performance metrics for all running cloud VMs and for the host system.</p></li>
       </ul>
      <p>See also <xref href="vm-info.dita"/>.</p>
    </li>
      <li>
        <p>Use the <cmdname>VBoxManage cloud instance</cmdname> command, as follows:</p>
        <ul><li><p><cmdname>VBoxManage cloud instance metriclist</cmdname> shows the available metrics for an
              instance.</p></li>
        <li><p><cmdname>VBoxManage cloud instance metricdata</cmdname> shows metrics data for an instance.</p></li></ul>
        <p>See also <xref href="../cli_topics/vboxmanage-cloud.dita"/>.</p>
      </li></ul>
    <note><p>To monitor a cloud VM, the Compute Instance Monitoring plugin must be enabled and running on the
      <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/oci"/> instance. See the <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/oci"/> 
      documentation for more details.</p></note>
   
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