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vSphere default checks and policies

Agent Client Collector provides the following default checks and policies for vSphere monitoring.

TypeCheckDescriptionUsageOutput
Metricvsphere.metric-VirtualMachineRetrieves metrics for a vSphere virtual machine. Must use a proxy agent.`commonchecks metric-vsphere -H hostname -R VirtualMachine -v vm_id -r true -i 20` where: - -H = hostname Instance Hostname - -i = intervalId 20 for real time metrics; 300 for 5 minutes older aggregate metrics \(default 300\) - -r = resourceLevelMetric To enable resource level metrics \(default=false\)`vsphere.VirtualMachine.disk.usage.average.total 8 1654755994`
TypeCheckDescriptionUsageOutput
MetricvSphere.metric-DatastoreRetrieves Metrics for vSphere Datastore. Must use a proxy agent.`commonchecks metric-vsphere -H hostname -R Datastore -v vm_id -r` where: - -H = hostname Instance Hostname - -r = resourceLevelMetric To enable resource level metrics \(default=false\)`vsphere.Datastore.disk.capacity.latest.total 21474836480 1655182836`
TypeCheckDescriptionUsageOutput
Metricvsphere.metric-DatacenterRetrieves metrics for the vSphere datacenter.`commonchecks metric-vsphere -H hostname -R Datacenter -v vm_id -r` where: - -H = hostname Instance Hostname - -r = resourceLevelMetric To enable resource level metrics \(default=false\)
vsphere.Datacenter.vmop.numChangeDS.latest.total 217 1655194924
vsphere.Datacenter.vmop.numChangeHost.latest.total 1373 1655194924
vsphere.Datacenter.vmop.numChangeHostDS.latest.total 9 1655194924
vsphere.Datacenter.vmop.numClone.latest.total 192 1655194924
TypeCheckDescriptionUsageOutput
Metricvsphere.metric-ESX\_ServerRetrieves metrics for vSphere ESX server or HostSystem. Must use a proxy agent.`commonchecks metric-vsphere -H hostname -R HostSystem -v vm_id -r` where: - -H = hostname Instance Hostname - -r = resourceLevelMetric To enable resource level metrics \(default=false\)
vsphere.HostSystem.net.broadcastRx.summation.total 63885 1655198166
vsphere.HostSystem.net.broadcastTx.summation.total 196 1655198166
vsphere.HostSystem.net.bytesRx.average.total 5924 1655198166

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