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vSphere module

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vSphere module

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The vSphere module uses the Govmomi library to collect metrics from any Vmware SDK URL (ESXi/VCenter). This library is built for and tested against ESXi and vCenter 5.5, 6.0 and 6.5.

By default it enables the metricsets cluster, datastore, datastorecluster, host, network, resourcepool and virtualmachine.

Dashboard

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The vsphere module comes with a predefined dashboard. For example:

Example configuration

The vSphere module supports the standard configuration options that are described in Modules. Here is an example configuration:

metricbeat.modules:
- module: vsphere
  enabled: true
  metricsets: ["cluster", "datastore", "datastorecluster", "host", "network", "resourcepool", "virtualmachine"]
  # Real-time data collection – An ESXi Server collects data for each performance counter every 20 seconds.
  period: 20s
  hosts: ["https://localhost/sdk"]

  username: "user"
  password: "password"
  # If insecure is true, don't verify the server's certificate chain
  insecure: false
  # Get custom fields when using virtualmachine metric set. Default false.
  # get_custom_fields: false

Metricsets

The following metricsets are available:

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