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Experimental

otelcol.receiver.vcenter

otelcol.receiver.vcenter accepts metrics from a vCenter or ESXi host running VMware vSphere APIs and forwards it to other otelcol.* components.

NOTE: otelcol.receiver.vcenter is a wrapper over the upstream OpenTelemetry Collector vcenter receiver from the otelcol-contrib distribution. Bug reports or feature requests will be redirected to the upstream repository, if necessary.

Multiple otelcol.receiver.vcenter components can be specified by giving them different labels.

The full list of metrics that can be collected can be found in vcenter receiver documentation.

Prerequisites

This receiver has been built to support ESXi and vCenter versions:

• 8
• 7.0

A “Read Only” user assigned to a vSphere with permissions to the vCenter server, cluster and all subsequent resources being monitored must be specified in order for the receiver to retrieve information about them.

Usage

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otelcol.receiver.vcenter "LABEL" {
  endpoint = "VCENTER_ENDPOINT"
  username = "VCENTER_USERNAME"
  password = "VCENTER_PASSWORD"

  output {
    metrics = [...]
  }
}

Arguments

otelcol.receiver.vcenter supports the following arguments:

endpoint has the format <protocol>://<hostname>. For example, https://vcsa.hostname.localnet.

Blocks

The following blocks are supported inside the definition of otelcol.receiver.vcenter:

tls block

The tls block configures TLS settings used for a server. If the tls block isn’t provided, TLS won’t be used for connections to the server.

metrics block

metric block

resource_attributes block

resource_attribute block

debug_metrics block

output block

Exported fields

otelcol.receiver.vcenter does not export any fields.

Component health

otelcol.receiver.vcenter is only reported as unhealthy if given an invalid configuration.

Debug information

otelcol.receiver.vcenter does not expose any component-specific debug information.

Example

This example forwards received telemetry data through a batch processor before finally sending it to an OTLP-capable endpoint:

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otelcol.receiver.vcenter "default" {
  endpoint = "http://localhost:15672"
  username = "otelu"
  password = "password"

  output {
    metrics = [otelcol.processor.batch.default.input]
  }
}

otelcol.processor.batch "default" {
  output {
    metrics = [otelcol.exporter.otlp.default.input]
  }
}

otelcol.exporter.otlp "default" {
  client {
    endpoint = sys.env("OTLP_ENDPOINT")
  }
}

Compatible components

otelcol.receiver.vcenter can accept arguments from the following components:

• Components that export OpenTelemetry otelcol.Consumer