Storage Systems Overview (MetricsHub)

Use Cases

• Prevent capacity shortfalls by tracking configured, subscribed, consumed, and available capacity across systems and pools.
• Detect performance bottlenecks by measuring detailed performance metrics at every layer (disks, controllers, storage pools, and volumes).
• Optimize storage and reduce costs by reporting actual usage to storage consumers and reclaiming space from inactive, unmapped, or underutilized volumes.

Prerequisites

• MetricsHub installed and configured.
• A Prometheus server configured to expose the collected metrics.
• The Storage System Overview (MetricsHub®) Grafana dashboard.

MetricsHub Overview

MetricsHub is a universal metrics collection agent for OpenTelemetry deployed within your infrastructure. A single instance can remotely monitor multiple storage systems across leading vendors, including Dell, Hitachi, HPE, IBM, NetApp, Everpure, and others.

MetricsHub collects critical metrics from storage arrays, controllers, disks, and storage pools, including IOPS, throughput, latency, capacity utilization, and storage provisioning.

Storage monitoring is available exclusively with a MetricsHub Enterprise Edition license. You can try the Enterprise Edition for free for 30 days to explore its full capabilities.

Key Features

• Multi-vendor storage monitoring
• Standardized metrics across storage platforms
• Health, capacity, and performance monitoring
• Capacity growth and saturation risks forecasting
• Latency and throughput tracking
• Oversubscribed storage pools identification
• Reclaimable volume detection

Setup and Configuration

1. Install and configure MetricsHub.
2. Send telemetry to Prometheus.
3. Import the Storage System Overview dashboard (MetricsHub®) into Grafana.

Other MetricsHub Grafana Dashboards

MetricsHub provides several Grafana dashboards to help you monitor your infrastructure at different levels, from a global view of all monitored environments to detailed metrics for individual systems.

Storage System (MetricsHub) Dashboard

Focuses on a single storage system and its internal components, providing detailed visibility into hardware health, capacity, and performance metrics.

System Performance Metrics - Overview (MetricsHub)

Unified view of key performance indicators from Linux, Windows, HP-UX, and IBM AIX systems, including CPU utilization, memory consumption, file system capacity, network traffic, and protocol response times. All metrics are collected by MetricsHub® and presented in a clear, meaningful, and actionable dashboard.

System Performance Metrics (MetricsHub) Dashboard

Visualizes key system performance indicators, including CPU usage, memory consumption, filesystem capacity, network traffic, and protocol response time, for Linux, Windows, HP-UX, and IBM AIX systems.

Hardware Main (MetricsHub) Dashboard

Provides a centralized view of hardware health and performance metrics across all monitored environments. It aggregates telemetry collected by MetricsHub to help you quickly assess the status of your infrastructure.

Hardware Site (MetricsHub) Dashboard

Displays metrics associated with a specific site, such as a data center or server room, and the hosts monitored within that environment.

Hardware Host (MetricsHub) Dashboard

Focuses on a single monitored host and its internal components, providing detailed visibility into hardware health and performance metrics.