How to Create a Metric Plugin?
Overview
There might be certain situations where you need to define metrics in Motadata that cannot be defined by the standard in-built plugins available in the system. This would include devices such as UPS, Printer, NAS and their metrics like power consumption, Fan RPM, Temprature etc.
Suppose you have a homegrown application running on a monitor and you need to retrieve a custom metric that not be available in AIOps by default. You can create a metric plugin and write a script using the appropriate protocol to establish connection to the monitor and retrieve the metrics as per your requirement and start monitoring them.
Navigation
Go to Menu, Select Settings 
. After that, Go to Plugin Library 
. Select Metric. The Metric Plugin screen is displayed.
Select 
to create a metric plugin.
Types of Metric Plugin
Motadata AIOps facilitates creating different types of metric plugins based on communication protocol. They can be categorized as follows:
