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vcenter

Default Metrics

The following metrics are emitted by default. Each of them can be disabled by applying the following configuration:

metrics:
  <metric_name>:
    enabled: false

vcenter.cluster.cpu.effective

The effective CPU available to the cluster. This value excludes CPU from hosts in maintenance mode or are unresponsive.

Unit Metric Type Value Type Aggregation Temporality Monotonic
{MHz} Sum Int Cumulative false

vcenter.cluster.cpu.limit

The amount of CPU available to the cluster.

Unit Metric Type Value Type Aggregation Temporality Monotonic
{MHz} Sum Int Cumulative false

vcenter.cluster.host.count

The number of hosts in the cluster.

Unit Metric Type Value Type Aggregation Temporality Monotonic
{hosts} Sum Int Cumulative false

Attributes

Name Description Values
effective Whether the host is effective in the vCenter cluster. Any Bool

vcenter.cluster.memory.effective

The effective available memory of the cluster.

This value excludes memory from hosts that are either in maintenance mode or are unresponsive. It also excludes memory used by the VMware Service Console.

Unit Metric Type Value Type Aggregation Temporality Monotonic
By Sum Int Cumulative false

vcenter.cluster.memory.limit

The available memory of the cluster.

Unit Metric Type Value Type Aggregation Temporality Monotonic
By Sum Int Cumulative false

vcenter.cluster.vm.count

The number of virtual machines in the cluster.

Unit Metric Type Value Type Aggregation Temporality Monotonic
{virtual_machines} Sum Int Cumulative false

Attributes

Name Description Values
power_state The current power state of the virtual machine. Str: on, off, suspended

vcenter.cluster.vm_template.count

The number of virtual machine templates in the cluster.

Unit Metric Type Value Type Aggregation Temporality Monotonic
{virtual_machine_templates} Sum Int Cumulative false

vcenter.datastore.disk.usage

The amount of space in the datastore.

Unit Metric Type Value Type Aggregation Temporality Monotonic
By Sum Int Cumulative false

Attributes

Name Description Values
disk_state The state of storage and whether it is already allocated or free. Str: available, used

vcenter.datastore.disk.utilization

The utilization of the datastore.

Unit Metric Type Value Type
% Gauge Double

vcenter.host.cpu.usage

The amount of CPU used by the host.

Unit Metric Type Value Type Aggregation Temporality Monotonic
MHz Sum Int Cumulative false

vcenter.host.cpu.utilization

The CPU utilization of the host system.

Unit Metric Type Value Type
% Gauge Double

vcenter.host.disk.latency.avg

The latency of operations to the host system's disk.

This latency is the sum of the device and kernel read and write latencies. Requires Performance Counter level 2 for metric to populate.

Unit Metric Type Value Type
ms Gauge Int

Attributes

Name Description Values
direction The direction of disk latency. Str: read, write
object The object on the virtual machine or host that is being reported on. Any Str

vcenter.host.disk.latency.max

Highest latency value across all disks used by the host.

As measured over the most recent 20s interval. Requires Performance Level 3.

Unit Metric Type Value Type
ms Gauge Int

Attributes

Name Description Values
object The object on the virtual machine or host that is being reported on. Any Str

vcenter.host.disk.throughput

Average number of kilobytes read from or written to the disk each second.

As measured over the most recent 20s interval. Aggregated disk I/O rate. Requires Performance Level 4.

Unit Metric Type Value Type Aggregation Temporality Monotonic
{KiBy/s} Sum Int Cumulative false

Attributes

Name Description Values
direction The direction of disk latency. Str: read, write
object The object on the virtual machine or host that is being reported on. Any Str

vcenter.host.memory.usage

The amount of memory the host system is using.

Unit Metric Type Value Type Aggregation Temporality Monotonic
MiBy Sum Int Cumulative false

vcenter.host.memory.utilization

The percentage of the host system's memory capacity that is being utilized.

Unit Metric Type Value Type
% Gauge Double

vcenter.host.network.packet.error.rate

The rate of packet errors transmitted or received on the host network.

As measured over the most recent 20s interval.

Unit Metric Type Value Type
{errors/sec} Gauge Double

Attributes

Name Description Values
direction The direction of network throughput. Str: transmitted, received
object The object on the virtual machine or host that is being reported on. Any Str

vcenter.host.network.packet.rate

The rate of packets transmitted or received across each physical NIC (network interface controller) instance on the host.

As measured over the most recent 20s interval.

Unit Metric Type Value Type
{packets/sec} Gauge Double

Attributes

Name Description Values
direction The direction of network throughput. Str: transmitted, received
object The object on the virtual machine or host that is being reported on. Any Str

vcenter.host.network.throughput

The amount of data that was transmitted or received over the network by the host.

As measured over the most recent 20s interval.

Unit Metric Type Value Type Aggregation Temporality Monotonic
{KiBy/s} Sum Int Cumulative false

Attributes

Name Description Values
direction The direction of network throughput. Str: transmitted, received
object The object on the virtual machine or host that is being reported on. Any Str

vcenter.host.network.usage

The sum of the data transmitted and received for all the NIC instances of the host.

Unit Metric Type Value Type Aggregation Temporality Monotonic
{KiBy/s} Sum Int Cumulative false

Attributes

Name Description Values
object The object on the virtual machine or host that is being reported on. Any Str

vcenter.resource_pool.cpu.shares

The amount of shares of CPU in the resource pool.

Unit Metric Type Value Type Aggregation Temporality Monotonic
{shares} Sum Int Cumulative false

vcenter.resource_pool.cpu.usage

The usage of the CPU used by the resource pool.

Unit Metric Type Value Type Aggregation Temporality Monotonic
{MHz} Sum Int Cumulative false

vcenter.resource_pool.memory.shares

The amount of shares of memory in the resource pool.

Unit Metric Type Value Type Aggregation Temporality Monotonic
{shares} Sum Int Cumulative false

vcenter.resource_pool.memory.usage

The usage of the memory by the resource pool.

Unit Metric Type Value Type Aggregation Temporality Monotonic
MiBy Sum Int Cumulative false

vcenter.vm.cpu.usage

The amount of CPU used by the VM.

Unit Metric Type Value Type Aggregation Temporality Monotonic
MHz Sum Int Cumulative false

vcenter.vm.cpu.utilization

The CPU utilization of the VM.

Unit Metric Type Value Type
% Gauge Double

vcenter.vm.disk.latency.avg

The latency of operations to the virtual machine's disk.

Requires Performance Counter level 2 for metric to populate. As measured over the most recent 20s interval.

Unit Metric Type Value Type
ms Gauge Int

Attributes

Name Description Values
direction The direction of disk latency. Str: read, write
disk_type The type of storage device that is being recorded. Str: virtual, physical
object The object on the virtual machine or host that is being reported on. Any Str

vcenter.vm.disk.latency.max

The highest reported total latency (device and kernel times) over an interval of 20 seconds.

Unit Metric Type Value Type
ms Gauge Int

Attributes

Name Description Values
object The object on the virtual machine or host that is being reported on. Any Str

vcenter.vm.disk.throughput

Average number of kilobytes read from or written to the virtual disk each second.

As measured over the most recent 20s interval. Requires Performance Level 2.

Unit Metric Type Value Type
{KiBy/s} Gauge Int

Attributes

Name Description Values
direction The direction of disk latency. Str: read, write
object The object on the virtual machine or host that is being reported on. Any Str

vcenter.vm.disk.usage

The amount of storage space used by the virtual machine.

Unit Metric Type Value Type Aggregation Temporality Monotonic
By Sum Int Cumulative false

Attributes

Name Description Values
disk_state The state of storage and whether it is already allocated or free. Str: available, used

vcenter.vm.disk.utilization

The utilization of storage on the virtual machine.

Unit Metric Type Value Type
% Gauge Double

vcenter.vm.memory.ballooned

The amount of memory that is ballooned due to virtualization.

Unit Metric Type Value Type Aggregation Temporality Monotonic
MiBy Sum Int Cumulative false

vcenter.vm.memory.swapped

The portion of memory that is granted to this VM from the host's swap space.

Unit Metric Type Value Type Aggregation Temporality Monotonic
MiBy Sum Int Cumulative false

vcenter.vm.memory.swapped_ssd

The amount of memory swapped to fast disk device such as SSD.

Unit Metric Type Value Type Aggregation Temporality Monotonic
KiBy Sum Int Cumulative false

vcenter.vm.memory.usage

The amount of memory that is used by the virtual machine.

Unit Metric Type Value Type Aggregation Temporality Monotonic
MiBy Sum Int Cumulative false

vcenter.vm.memory.utilization

The memory utilization of the VM.

Unit Metric Type Value Type
% Gauge Double

vcenter.vm.network.packet.drop.rate

The rate of transmitted or received packets dropped by each vNIC (virtual network interface controller) on the virtual machine.

As measured over the most recent 20s interval.

Unit Metric Type Value Type
{packets/sec} Gauge Double

Attributes

Name Description Values
direction The direction of network throughput. Str: transmitted, received
object The object on the virtual machine or host that is being reported on. Any Str

vcenter.vm.network.packet.rate

The rate of packets transmitted or received by each vNIC (virtual network interface controller) on the virtual machine.

As measured over the most recent 20s interval.

Unit Metric Type Value Type
{packets/sec} Gauge Double

Attributes

Name Description Values
direction The direction of network throughput. Str: transmitted, received
object The object on the virtual machine or host that is being reported on. Any Str

vcenter.vm.network.throughput

The amount of data that was transmitted or received over the network of the virtual machine.

As measured over the most recent 20s interval.

Unit Metric Type Value Type Aggregation Temporality Monotonic
By/sec Sum Int Cumulative false

Attributes

Name Description Values
direction The direction of network throughput. Str: transmitted, received
object The object on the virtual machine or host that is being reported on. Any Str

vcenter.vm.network.usage

The network utilization combined transmit and receive rates during an interval.

As measured over the most recent 20s interval.

Unit Metric Type Value Type Aggregation Temporality Monotonic
{KiBy/s} Sum Int Cumulative false

Attributes

Name Description Values
object The object on the virtual machine or host that is being reported on. Any Str

Resource Attributes

Name Description Values Enabled
vcenter.cluster.name The name of the vCenter cluster. Any Str true
vcenter.datacenter.name The name of the vCenter datacenter. Any Str true
vcenter.datastore.name The name of the vCenter datastore. Any Str true
vcenter.host.name The hostname of the vCenter ESXi host. Any Str true
vcenter.resource_pool.inventory_path The inventory path of the resource pool. Any Str true
vcenter.resource_pool.name The name of the resource pool. Any Str true
vcenter.virtual_app.inventory_path The inventory path of the vApp. Any Str true
vcenter.virtual_app.name The name of the vApp. Any Str true
vcenter.vm.id The instance UUID of the virtual machine. Any Str true
vcenter.vm.name The name of the virtual machine. Any Str true
vcenter.vm_template.id The instance UUID of the virtual machine template. Any Str true
vcenter.vm_template.name The name of the virtual machine template. Any Str true