You can monitor the performance of cloud VM instances in the following ways:

• Use the virtual machine monitoring tools in .

  • To show detailed performance data for a cloud VM:

    Click the cloud VM name in the Machines list and click VM Activity.

    Several time series charts are displayed, showing resource usage and performance data. To save the data to file, click Export.

  • To show a performance summary for all cloud VMs:

    Click Resource Usage to see a summary of performance metrics for all running cloud VMs and for the host system.

  See also .

• Use the VBoxManage cloud instance command, as follows:

  • VBoxManage cloud instance metriclist shows the available metrics for an instance.

  • VBoxManage cloud instance metricdata shows metrics data for an instance.

  See also .