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Overview

As a XIMP administrator, you are responsible for deploying monitoring agents, configuring metric collection endpoints, managing log ingestion pipelines, defining alert routing rules, setting data retention policies, and maintaining the health of the monitoring platform itself.
Administrator Access Required — This operation requires the admin role. Contact your Xloud administrator if you do not have sufficient permissions.

Topics

Architecture

XIMP service layers — collection, storage, and serving — and how metrics, logs, and flow data flow from sources to operators.

Agent Configuration

Deploy monitoring agents via XDeploy or manually, configure custom scrape targets, and manage agent authentication tokens.

Metric Endpoints

Configure metric scrape targets, manage endpoint discovery, and organize metrics by namespace for alert rules and dashboards.

Log Collection

Configure log sources, syslog forwarding, and log format parsers for centralized log ingestion.

Alert Channels

Configure email, webhook, PagerDuty, and Slack notification channels for alert delivery and multi-tier escalation policies.

DDoS Protection

Configure DDoS detection thresholds, mitigation policies, and review attack events and false-positive unblocking procedures.

Retention Policies

Configure metric and log retention periods — balance historical depth against storage costs for raw and downsampled data.

Security

Agent token management, dashboard access control via Xloud identity roles, and TLS certificate lifecycle.

Troubleshooting

Diagnose high cardinality metric issues, log ingestion backlogs, and dashboard data availability problems.

Next Steps

XIMP User Guide

Tenant operations — dashboards, alerts, log analytics, and network monitoring

Disaster Recovery Admin Guide

Configure XIMP alerts to trigger XDR failover procedures automatically

XSDS Admin Guide

Integrate XSDS storage metrics with XIMP for unified storage observability

Xloud Compute Admin Guide

Monitor compute node health and instance placement through XIMP