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Monitor VMware vSphere easily with Grafana

Easily monitor your deployment of VMware vSphere, a virtualization platform that helps consolidate IT infrastructure, with Grafana Cloud’s out-of-the-box monitoring solution. The Grafana Cloud forever-free tier includes 3 users and up to 10k metrics series to support your monitoring needs.

vSphere overview dashboard

Key metrics included

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vcenter_cluster_cpu_effective
vcenter_cluster_cpu_limit
vcenter_cluster_host_count
vcenter_cluster_memory_effective_bytes
vcenter_cluster_memory_limit_bytes
vcenter_cluster_vm_count
vcenter_cluster_vm_template_count
vcenter_datastore_disk_usage_bytes
vcenter_datastore_disk_utilization_percent
vcenter_host_cpu_usage_MHz
vcenter_host_cpu_utilization_percent
vcenter_host_disk_latency_avg_milliseconds
vcenter_host_disk_throughput
vcenter_host_memory_usage_mebibytes
vcenter_host_memory_utilization_percent
vcenter_host_network_packet_error_rate
vcenter_host_network_packet_rate
vcenter_host_network_throughput
vcenter_host_network_usage
vcenter_resource_pool_cpu_shares
vcenter_resource_pool_cpu_usage
vcenter_resource_pool_memory_shares
vcenter_resource_pool_memory_usage_mebibytes
vcenter_vm_cpu_usage_MHz
vcenter_vm_cpu_utilization_percent
vcenter_vm_disk_latency_avg_milliseconds
vcenter_vm_disk_throughput
vcenter_vm_disk_usage_bytes
vcenter_vm_disk_utilization_percent
vcenter_vm_memory_ballooned_mebibytes
vcenter_vm_memory_swapped_mebibytes
vcenter_vm_memory_usage_mebibytes
vcenter_vm_memory_utilization_percent
vcenter_vm_network_packet_drop_rate
vcenter_vm_network_packet_rate
vcenter_vm_network_throughput_bytes_per_sec
vcenter_vm_network_usage

Key alerting rules included

VSphereHostInfoCpuUtilization
VSphereHostWarningMemoryUtilization
VSphereDatastoreWarningDiskUtilization
VSphereDatastoreCriticalDiskUtilization
VSphereHostWarningHighPacketErrors