Metric Drains

Metric Drains let you route metrics for Apps and Databases to the destination of your choice.

Use Cases

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:

• Datadog Metric Drain
• InfluxDB Metric Drain