> How I got stats for all VMs, including system ones, was to install > Prometheus, both the cloudstack and the libvirt exporter. > I know it's "outside" Cloudstack, but may prove useful.
It looks like the Prometheus exporter is limited to per-zone statistics, though? https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/CloudStack+Metrics+Exporter+for+Prometheus But yes, we're probably better off with collecting the metrics directly from the hypervisor. Previously, we installed a bunch of monitoring services inside the VRs, but I'd like to build a cleaner solution that doesn't require messing with the system VMs, if possible. Since I'm also interested in other metrics besides the very basic ones (such as NAT table size, per-network stats in a VPC, etc.), I think it would be best if the VR template offered integrated monitoring capabilities. Should I open a feature request for that?
