Custom Windows Monitoring

RightScale supports basic monitoring of Windows servers.  If you launch servers using one of our published Windows ServerTemplates (that's leveraging v5.5 RightImages and above), basic monitoring is installed by default.   If you're new to RightScale and are launching Windows servers for the first time through the RightScale Dashboard, the best way to see real-time monitoring is to launch servers using one of the "All-In-One" ServerTemplates.

If you want to extend the basic monitoring functionality that's supported for Windows servers, you can create your own custom monitoring plugins so that additional metrics can be monitored and their graphs can be displayed in the Dashboard.

There are two different ways to customize Windows monitoring:

• Add a Custom Monitoring Plugin Manually
• Add a Custom Monitoring Plugin Automatically with RightScripts or Chef Recipes