Metric Drains

Learn how to route metrics with Metric Drains

Overview

Metric Drains lets you route metrics for Apps and Databases to the destination of your choice. Metrics Drains are typically useful to:

• Persist metrics for the long term
• Alert when metrics cross thresholds of your choice
• Troubleshoot performance problems

Types of Metric Drains

• Datadog Metric Drain
• InfluxDB Metric Drain

Managing Metric Drains

Creating Metric Drains

A Metric Drain can be provisioned in three ways on Aptible:

• Within the Aptible Dashboard by navigating to an Environment > selecting the "Metric Drains" tab > selecting "Create Metric Drain"
• Using the respective aptible:metric_drain:create command, such as:
  • aptible metric_drain:create:datadog
  • aptible metric_drain:create:influxdb
  • aptible metric_drain:create:influxdb:custom
• Using the Aptible Terraform Provider

Restarting Metric Drains

A Metric Drain can be restarted within the Aptible Dashboard by navigating to an Environment > selecting the "Metric Drains" tab > selecting "Restart"

Deprovisioning Metric Drains

A Metric Drain can be provisioned in three ways on Aptible:

• Within the Aptible Dashboard by navigating to an Environment > selecting the "Metric Drains" tab > selecting "Delete"
• Using the aptible metric_drain:deprovision command
• Using the Aptible Terraform Provider

Keep reading:

• InfluxDB Metric Drain