+#start test emulator topology
+#python src/emuvim/examples/monitoring_demo_topology.py &
+
+# start a vnf
+son-emu-cli compute-zapi start -d datacenter1 -n vnf1 --net '(id=input,ip=10.0.10.3/24),(id=output,ip=10.0.10.4/24)'
+
+sleep 1
+
+# monitor a metric
+son-emu-cli monitor setup_metric -vnf vnf1:output --metric tx_packets
+
+sleep 5
+
+# check if metric is monitored as expected (exported by son-emu, has vnf name as metric id)
+tx_rate=$(son-emu-cli monitor prometheus -d datacenter1 -vnf vnf1 -q 'rate(sonemu_tx_count_packets{vnf_name="vnf1"}[1m])')
+
+
+# test if prometheus query worked
+echo $tx_rate
+
+regex='\[[0-9.]*, .*\]'
+
+if [[ $tx_rate =~ $regex ]] ; then
+ echo " tx_rate monitor test OK"
+else
+ echo "tx_rate monitor test not OK"
+ exit 1
+fi
+
+
+# check if cpu load can be monitored (exported by cAdvisor, needs uuid)