> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.xloud.tech/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# XIMP Administration Guide

> Deploy and configure XIMP — agents, metric endpoints, log collection, alert channels, and retention policies.

<p style={{ fontSize: '1.25rem', fontWeight: 700, marginBottom: '0.75rem' }}>Overview</p>

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.

<Warning>
  **Administrator Access Required** — This operation requires the `admin` role. Contact your
  Xloud administrator if you do not have sufficient permissions.
</Warning>

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<p style={{ fontSize: '1.25rem', fontWeight: 700, marginBottom: '0.75rem' }}>Topics</p>

<CardGroup cols={4}>
  <Card title="Architecture" icon="layout" href="/services/monitoring/admin-guide/architecture" color="#197560">
    XIMP service layers — collection, storage, and serving — and how metrics, logs,
    and flow data flow from sources to operators.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Agent Configuration" icon="settings" href="/services/monitoring/admin-guide/agent-config" color="#197560">
    Deploy monitoring agents via XDeploy or manually, configure custom scrape targets,
    and manage agent authentication tokens.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Metric Endpoints" icon="activity" href="/services/monitoring/admin-guide/metric-endpoints" color="#197560">
    Configure metric scrape targets, manage endpoint discovery, and organize metrics
    by namespace for alert rules and dashboards.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Log Collection" icon="file-text" href="/services/monitoring/admin-guide/log-collection" color="#197560">
    Configure log sources, syslog forwarding, and log format parsers for centralized
    log ingestion.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Alert Channels" icon="bell" href="/services/monitoring/admin-guide/alert-channels" color="#197560">
    Configure email, webhook, PagerDuty, and Slack notification channels for alert
    delivery and multi-tier escalation policies.
  </Card>

  <Card title="DDoS Protection" icon="shield" href="/services/monitoring/admin-guide/ddos-protection" color="#197560">
    Configure DDoS detection thresholds, mitigation policies, and review attack events
    and false-positive unblocking procedures.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Retention Policies" icon="clock" href="/services/monitoring/admin-guide/retention" color="#197560">
    Configure metric and log retention periods — balance historical depth against
    storage costs for raw and downsampled data.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Security" icon="lock" href="/services/monitoring/admin-guide/security" color="#197560">
    Agent token management, dashboard access control via Xloud identity roles,
    and TLS certificate lifecycle.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Troubleshooting" icon="wrench" href="/services/monitoring/admin-guide/troubleshooting" color="#197560">
    Diagnose high cardinality metric issues, log ingestion backlogs, and
    dashboard data availability problems.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

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<p style={{ fontSize: '1.25rem', fontWeight: 700, marginBottom: '0.75rem' }}>Next Steps</p>

<CardGroup cols={4}>
  <Card title="XIMP User Guide" icon="book-open" href="/services/monitoring/user-guide" color="#197560">
    Tenant operations — dashboards, alerts, log analytics, and network monitoring
  </Card>

  <Card title="Disaster Recovery Admin Guide" icon="rotate-ccw" href="/services/disaster-recovery/admin-guide" color="#197560">
    Configure XIMP alerts to trigger XDR failover procedures automatically
  </Card>

  <Card title="XSDS Admin Guide" icon="database" href="/services/sds/admin-guide" color="#197560">
    Integrate XSDS storage metrics with XIMP for unified storage observability
  </Card>

  <Card title="Xloud Compute Admin Guide" icon="server" href="/services/compute/admin-guide" color="#197560">
    Monitor compute node health and instance placement through XIMP
  </Card>
</CardGroup>