VMware vRealize Operations De User Manual
vRealize Operations Definitions for
Metrics, Properties, and Alerts
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vRealize Operations Definitions for Metrics, Properties, and Alerts
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Contents
About vRealize Operations Manager Reference for Metrics, Properties, and Alerts 5
Metric Denitions in vRealize Operations Manager 7
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Metrics for vCenter Server Components 8
Calculated Metrics 76
Self-Monitoring Metrics for vRealize Operations Manager 82
Metrics for vRealize Automation 107
Metrics for vSAN 107
Metrics for the Operating Systems and Remote Service Monitoring Plug-ins in
End Point Operations Management 114
Property Denitions in vRealize Operations Manager 131
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Properties for vCenter Server Components 131
Self-Monitoring Properties for vRealize Operations Manager 144
Properties for vSAN 146
Alert Denitions in vRealize Operations Manager 149
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Cluster Compute Resource Alert Denitions 150
Host System Alert Denitions 154
vRealize Automation Alert Denitions 168
vSAN Alerts Denitions 169
Alerts in the vSphere Web Client 176
vSphere Distributed Port Group 176
Virtual Machine Alert Denitions 177
vSphere Distributed Switch Alert Denitions 185
vCenter Server Alert Denitions 186
Datastore Alert Denitions 187
Data Center Alert Denitions 192
Custom Data Center Alert Denitions 193
Index 195
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About vRealize Operations Manager Reference for Metrics, Properties, and Alerts
The vRealize Operations Manager Reference for Metrics, Properties, and Alerts provides information about the
metric, properties, and alert denitions provided with vRealize Operations Manager.
Intended Audience
This information is intended for anyone who wants to install and congure vRealize Operations Manager by
using a virtual appliance deployment. The information is wrien for experienced virtual machine
administrators who are familiar with enterprise management applications and datacenter operations.
VMware Technical Publications Glossary
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Metric Definitions in
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Metric denitions provide an overview of how the metric value is calculated or derived. If you understand
the metric, you can beer tune vRealize Operations Manager to display results that help you to manage
your environment.
vRealize Operations Manager collects data from objects in your environment. Each piece of data collected is
called a metric observation or value. vRealize Operations Manager uses the VMware vCenter® adapter to
collect raw metrics. vRealize Operations Manager uses the vRealize Operations Manager adapter to collect
self-monitoring metrics. In addition to the metrics it collects, vRealize Operations Manager calculates
capacity metrics, badge metrics, and metrics to monitor the health of your system.
All metric denitions are provided. The metrics reported on your system depend on the objects in your
environment. You can use metrics to help troubleshoot problems. See the vRealize Operations Manager User
Guide.
Changes in Metric Availability
The CPU Demand of Recommended (%) metric is no longer available in vRealize Operations Manager
version 6.x. To approximate the metric, create a super metric using the following calculations, and add it to
your Views and Reports as needed.
( (CPU|Stress Free Demand (MHz)) × (CPU|Current Size in Unit(s)) ) ÷ ( (CPU|Recommended Size
(vCPUs)) × (CPU|Current Size (MHz)) )
For more information about super metrics, see the vRealize Operations Manager Information Center.
This chapter includes the following topics:
“Metrics for vCenter Server Components,” on page 8
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“Calculated Metrics,” on page 76
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“Self-Monitoring Metrics for vRealize Operations Manager,” on page 82
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“Metrics for vRealize Automation,” on page 107
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“Metrics for vSAN,” on page 107
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“Metrics for the Operating Systems and Remote Service Monitoring Plug-ins in End Point Operations
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Management,” on page 114
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Metrics for vCenter Server Components
vRealize Operations Manager connects to VMware vCenter Server® instances through the vCenter adapter
to collect metrics for vCenter Server components and uses formulas to derive statistics from those metrics.
You can use metrics to troubleshoot problems in your environment.
vCenter Server components are listed in the describe.xml le for the vCenter adapter. The following
example shows sensor metrics for the host system in the describe.xml le.
<ResourceGroup instanced="false" key="Sensor" nameKey="1350" validation="">
<ResourceGroup instanced="false" key="fan" nameKey="1351" validation="">
<ResourceAttribute key="currentValue" nameKey="1360" dashboardOrder="1"
dataType="float" defaultMonitored="false" isDiscrete="false" isRate="false" maxVal=""
minVal="" unit="percent"/>
<ResourceAttribute key="healthState" nameKey="1361" dashboardOrder="1" dataType="float"
defaultMonitored="false" isDiscrete="false" isRate="false" maxVal="" minVal="" />
</ResourceGroup>
<ResourceGroup instanced="false" key="temperature" nameKey="1352" validation="">
<ResourceAttribute key="currentValue" nameKey="1362" dashboardOrder="1"
dataType="float" defaultMonitored="false" isDiscrete="false" isRate="false" maxVal=""
minVal="" />
<ResourceAttribute key="healthState" nameKey="1363" dashboardOrder="1" dataType="float"
defaultMonitored="false" isDiscrete="false" isRate="false" maxVal="" minVal="" />
</ResourceGroup>
</ResourceGroup>
Each ResourceAttribute element includes the name of a metric that appears in the UI and is documented as
a Metric Key.
Table 1‑1. Sensor Metrics for Host System Cooling
Metric Key Metric Name Description
Sensor|fan|currentValue Speed Fan speed.
Sensor|fan|healthState Health State Fan health state.
Sensor|temperature|currentValue Temperature Host system temperature.
Sensor|temperature|healthState Health State Host system health state.
vSphere Metrics
vRealize Operations Manager collects CPU use, disk, memory, network, and summary metrics for objects in
the vSphere world.
Capacity metrics can be calculated for vSphere world objects. See “Capacity and Project-Based Metrics,” on
page 77.
CPU Usage Metrics
CPU usage metrics provide information about CPU use.
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Table 1‑2. CPU Usage Metrics
Metric Name Description
CPU|Capacity usage CPU usages as a percent during the interval.
Key: cpu|capacity_usagepct_average
CPU|CPU contention(%) This metric shows the percentage of time the VMs in the ESXi hosts are
unable to run because they are contending for access to the physical CPUs.
The number shown is the average number for all VMs. The number will be
lower than the highest number experienced by the VM that is most impacted
by CPU contention.
Use this metric to verify if the host can serve all its VMs eciently. Low
contention means that the VM can access everything it demands to run
smoothly. It means that the infrastructure is providing good service to the
application team.
When using this metric, ensure that the number is within your expectation.
Look at both the relative number and the absolute number. Relative means a
drastic change in value, meaning that the ESXi is unable to serve the VMs.
Absolute means that the real value itself is high. Investigate why the number
is high. One factor that impacts this metric is CPU Power Management. If
CPU Power Management clocks down the CPU speed from 3 GHz to 2 GHz,
the reduction in speed is accounted for because it shows that the VM is not
running at full speed.
This metric is calculated in the following way: cpu|capacity_contention / (200
* summary|number_running_vcpus)
Key: cpu|capacity_contentionPct
CPU|Demand (%) This metric shows the amount of CPU resources a virtual machine would use
if there were no CPU contention or CPU limit. This metric represents the
average active CPU load for the past ve minutes.
Keep this number below 100% if you set the power management to
maximum.
This metric is calculated in the following way: ( cpu.demandmhz /
cpu.capacity_provisioned)*100
Key: cpu|demandPct
CPU|Demand (MHz) This metric shows the amount of CPU resources a virtual machine would use
if there were no CPU contention or CPU limit.
Key: cpu|demandmhz
CPU|Demand CPU demand in megaher.
Key: cpu|demand_average
CPU|IO wait IO wait (ms).
Key: cpu|iowait
CPU|number of CPU Sockets Number of CPU sockets.
Key: cpu|numpackages
CPU|Overall CPU Contention Overall CPU contention in milliseconds.
Key: cpu|capacity_contention
CPU|Provisioned Capacity (MHz) capacity in MHz of the physical CPU cores.
Key: cpu|capacity_provisioned
CPU|Provisioned vCPU(s) Number of provisioned CPU cores.
Key: cpu|corecount_provisioned
CPU|Reserved Capacity (MHz) Total CPU capacity reserved by virtual machines.
Key: cpu|reservedCapacity_average
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Table 1‑2. CPU Usage Metrics (Continued)
Metric Name Description
CPU|Usage (MHz) CPU usages, as measured in megaher, during the interval.
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Key: cpu|usagemhz_average
CPU|Wait Total CPU time spent in wait state. The wait total includes time spent in the
CPU Idle, CPU Swap Wait, and CPU I/O Wait states.
Key:cpu|wait
CPU|Workload (%) Percent of workload
Key: cpu|workload
Memory Metrics
Memory metrics provide information about memory use and allocation.
VM - Amount of actively used virtual CPU. This is the host's view of the
CPU usage, not the guest operating system view.
Host - Sum of the actively used CPU of all powered on virtual machines
on a host. The maximum possible value is the frequency of the two
processors multiplied by the number of processors. For example, if you
have a host with four 2 GHz CPUs running a virtual machine that is
using 4000 MHz, the host is using two CPUs completely: 400 / (4 2000) =
0.50
Table 1‑3. Memory Metrics
Metric Name Description
mem|Contention (%) This metric shows the percentage of time VMs are waiting to access swapped
memory.
Use this metric to monitor ESXi memory swapping. A high value indicates
that the ESXi is running low on memory, and a large amount of memory is
being swapped.
Key: mem|host_contentionPct
mem|Machine Demand (KB) Host memory demand in kilobytes.
Key: mem|host_demand
mem|Provisioned Memory Provisioned host memory in kilobytes.
Key: mem|host_provisioned
mem|Reserved Capacity (KB) Total amount of memory reservation used by powered-on virtual machines
and vSphere services on the host.
Key: mem|reservedCapacity_average
mem|Usable Memory (KB) Usable host memory in kilobytes.
Key: mem|host_usable
mem|Host Usage (KB) Host memory use in kilobytes.
Key: mem|host_usage
mem|Usage/Usable (%) Memory usage as percentage of total congured or available memory.
Key: mem|host_usagePct
mem|Workload (%) Percent of workload.
Key: mem|workload
Network Metrics
Network metrics provide information about network performance.
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Table 1‑4. Network Metrics
Metric Name Description
net|Packets Dropped (%) This metric shoes the percentage of received and transmied packets
dropped in the collection interval.
Use this metric to monitor the reliability and performance of the ESXi
network. A high value indicates that the network is not reliable and
performance decreases.
Key: net|droppedPct
net|Usage Rate (KB per second) Sum of the data transmied and received for all of the NIC instances of the
host or virtual machine.
Key: net|usage_average
net|Workload (%) Percent of workload.
Key: net|workload
Disk Metrics
Disk metrics provide information about disk use.
Table 1‑5. Disk Metrics
Metric Name Description
disk|Commands per second Average number of commands issued per second during the collection
cycle.
Key: disk|commandsAveraged_average
disk|Usage Rate (KB per second) Average of the sum of the data read and wrien for all of the disk instances
of the host or virtual machine.
Key: disk|usage_average
disk|Workload (%) Percent of workload.
Key: disk|workload
Summary Metrics
Summary metrics provide information about overall performance.
Table 1‑6. Summary Metrics
Metric Name Description
summary|Number of Running Hosts Number of running hosts.
Key: summary|number_running_hosts
summary|Number of Running VMs This metric shows the number of running VMs at a given point in time.
The data is sampled every ve minutes.
A large number of running VMs might be a reason for CPU or memory
spikes because more resources are used in the host. The number of
running VMs gives you a good indicator of how many requests the ESXi
host must juggle. Powered o VMs are not included because they do not
impact ESXi performance. A change in the number of running VMs can
contribute to performance problems. A high number of running VMs in
a host also means a higher concentration risk, because all the VMs will
fail if the ESXi crashes.
Use this metric to look for a correlation between spikes in the running
VMs and spikes in other metrics such as CPU contention, or memory
contention.
Key: summary|number_running_vms
summary|Total Number of Clusters Total number of clusters.
Key: summary|total_number_clusters
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Table 1‑6. Summary Metrics (Continued)
Metric Name Description
summary|Total Number of Datastores Total number of datastores.
summary|Total Number of Hosts Total number of hosts.
summary|Total Number of VMs Total number of virtual machines.
summary|Total Number of Datacenters Total number of data centers.
summary|Number VCPUs on Powered on
VMs
summary|Average Running VM Count per
Running Host
vCenter Server Metrics
vRealize Operations Manager collects CPU use, disk, memory, network, and summary metrics for vCenter
Server system objects.
Key: summary|total_number_datastores
Key: summary|total_number_hosts
Key: summary|total_number_vms
Key: summary|total_number_datacenters
Number of virtual CPUs on powered-on virtual machines.
Key: summary|number_running_vcpus
Average running virtual machine count per running host.
Key: summary|avg_vm_density
vCenter Server metrics include capacity and badge metrics. See denitions in:
“Capacity and Project-Based Metrics,” on page 77
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“Badge Metrics,” on page 80
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CPU Usage Metrics
CPU usage metrics provide information about CPU use.
Table 1‑7. CPU Usage Metrics
Metric Key Metric Name Description
cpu|capacity_usagepct_average Capacity Usage (%) Percent capacity used.
cpu|capacity_contentionPct CPU Contention (%) Percent CPU contention.
cpu|demandPct Demand (%) Percent demand.
cpu|demandmhz Demand (MHz) Demand in megaher.
cpu|demand_average Demand CPU Demand.
cpu|iowait IO Wait (ms) IO wait time in milliseconds.
cpu|numpackages Number of CPU Sockets Number of CPU sockets.
cpu|capacity_contention Overall CPU Contention (ms) Overall CPU contention in milliseconds.
cpu|capacity_provisioned Provisioned Capacity (MHz) Provisioned capacity in megaher.
cpu|corecount_provisioned Provisioned vCPU Number of provisioned virtual CPU cores.
cpu|reservedCapacity_average Reserved Capacity (MHz) Sum of the reservation properties of the
immediate children of the host's root resource
pool.
cpu|usagemhz_average Usage (MHz) Average CPU use in megaher.
cpu|wait Wait (ms) CPU time spent on the idle state.
cpu|overhead_average Overhead Amount of CPU that is overhead.
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Table 1‑7. CPU Usage Metrics (Continued)
Metric Key Metric Name Description
cpu|demand_without_overhead Demand without overhead Value of demand excluding any overhead.
cpu|vm_capacity_provisioned Provisioned Capacity Provisioned capacity (MHz).
Datastore Metrics
Datastore metrics provide information about the datastore.
Table 1‑8. Datastore Metrics
Metric Key Metric Name Description
datastore|
maxObserved_NumberRead
datastore|maxObserved_Read Max Observed Read Rate Max observed rate of reading data from the
datastore|
maxObserved_NumberWrite
datastore|maxObserved_Write Max Observed Write Rate Max observed rate of writing data from the
datastore|maxObserved_OIO Max Observed Number of
datastore|demand_oio Outstanding IO requests OIO for datastore.
datastore|
numberReadAveraged_average
datastore|
numberWriteAveraged_average
datastore|read_average Read Rate Amount of data read in the performance interval.
datastore|write_average Write Rate Amount of data wrien to disk in the performance
Max Observed Reads per
second
Max Observed Writes per
second
Outstanding IO Operations
Reads per second Average number of read commands issued per
Writes per second Average number of write commands issued per
Max observed average number of read commands
issued per second during the collection interval.
datastore.
Max observed average number of write commands
issued per second during the collection interval.
datastore.
Maximum observed number of outstanding IO
operations.
second during the collection interval.
second during the collection interval.
interval.
Disk Metrics
Disk metrics provide information about disk use.
Table 1‑9. Disk Metrics
Metric Key Metric Name Description
disk|commandsAveraged_average Commands per second Average number of commands issued per second
during the collection cycle.
disk|totalLatency_average Disk Command Latency
(ms)
disk|usage_average Usage Rate (KBps) Average of the sum of the data read and wrien for
disk|sum_queued_oio Total queued outstanding
operations
disk|max_observed Max Observed OIO Max observed IO for a disk.
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Average amount of time taken for a command from
the perspective of the guest operating system. This
metric is the sum of the Kernel Device Command
Latency and Physical Device Command Latency
metrics.
all of the disk instances of the host or virtual
machine.
Sum of queued operations and outstanding
operations.
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Diskspace Metrics
Disk space metrics provide information about disk space use.
Table 1‑10. Diskspace Metrics
Metric Key Metric Name Description
diskspace|total_usage Total disk space used (KB) Total disk space used on all datastores visible to
diskspace|total_capacity Total disk space (KB) Total disk space on all datastores visible to this
diskspace|total_provisioned Total provisioned disk space
(KB)
Memory Metrics
Memory metrics provide information about memory use and allocation.
Table 1‑11. Memory Metrics
Metric Key Metric Name Description
mem|host_contentionPct Contention (%) Percent host memory contention.
mem|host_demand Machine Demand (KB) Host memory demand in kilobytes.
mem|host_systemUsage ESX System Usage Memory usage by the VMkernel and ESX user-
mem|host_provisioned Provisioned Memory (KB) Provisioned host memory in kilobytes.
mem|reservedCapacity_average Reserved Capacity (KB) Sum of the reservation properties of the immediate
mem|host_usable Usable Memory (KB) Usable host memory in kilobytes.
mem|host_usage Host Usage (KB) Host memory use in kilobytes.
mem|host_usagePct Usage/Usable (%) Percent host memory used.
mem|host_contention Contention (KB) Host contention in kilobytes.
mem|overhead_average VM Overhead (KB) Memory overhead reported by host.
this object.
object.
Total provisioned disk space on all datastores
visible to this object.
level services.
children of the host's root resource pool.
Network Metrics
Network metrics provide information about network performance.
Table 1‑12. Network Metrics
Metric Key Metric Name Description
net|droppedPct Packets Dropped (%) Percent network packets dropped.
net|usage_average Usage Rate (KBps) Sum of the data transmied and received for all of
the NIC instances of the host or virtual machine.
net|packetsRx_summation Packets Received Number of packets received in the performance
interval.
net|packetsTx_summation Packets Transmied Number of packets transmied in the
performance interval.
net|droppedRx_summation Received Packets Dropped Number of received packets dropped in the
performance interval.
net|droppedTx_summation Transmied Packets Dropped Number of transmied packets dropped in the
performance interval.
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Table 1‑12. Network Metrics (Continued)
Metric Key Metric Name Description
net|maxObserved_KBps Max Observed Throughput
(KBps)
net|maxObserved_Tx_KBps Max Observed Transmied
Throughput (KBps)
net|maxObserved_Rx_KBps Max Observed Received
Throughput (KBps)
net|transmied_average Data Transmit Rate (KBps) Average amount of data transmied per second.
net|received_average Data Receive Rate (KBps) Average amount of data received per second.
Max observed rate of network throughput.
Max observed transmied rate of network
throughput.
Max observed received rate of network
throughput.
Summary Metrics
Summary metrics provide information about overall performance.
Table 1‑13. Summary Metrics
Metric Key Metric Name Description
summary|number_running_hosts Number of Running Hosts Number of hosts that are on.
summary|number_running_vms Number of Running VMs Number of virtual machines that
are on.
summary|total_number_clusters Total Number of Clusters Total number of clusters.
summary|total_number_datastores Total Number of Datastores Total number of datastores.
summary|total_number_hosts Total Number of Hosts Total number of hosts.
summary|total_number_vms Total Number of VMs Total number of virtual machines.
summary|max_number_vms Maximum Number of VMs Maximum number of virtual
machines.
summary|workload_indicator Workload Indicator (%) Percent workload indicator.
summary|total_number_datacenters Total Number of Datacenters Total number of datacenters.
summary|
number_powered_on_cores
summary|number_running_vcpus Number VCPUs on Powered on VMs Number of virtual CPUs on
summary|avg_vm_density Average Running VM Count per Running
summary|vc_query_time VC Query Time (ms) vCenter Server query time in
summary|
derived_metrics_comp_time
summary|number_objs Number of objects Number of objects.
summary|number_vc_events Number of VC Events Number of vCenter Server events.
summary|number_sms_metrics Number of SMS Metrics Number of SMS metrics.
summary|collector_mem_usage Collector Memory Usage (MB) Collector memory use in
Number of Cores on Powered On Hosts Number of cores on powered-on
hosts.
powered-on virtual machines.
Average running virtual machine
Host
Derived Metrics Computation Time (ms) Derived metrics computation time
count per running host.
milliseconds.
in milliseconds.
megabytes.
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Virtual Machine Metrics
vRealize Operations Manager collects conguration, CPU use, memory, datastore, disk, virtual disk, guest
le system, network, power, disk space, storage, and summary metrics for virtual machine objects.
Capacity metrics can be calculated for virtual machine objects. See “Capacity and Project-Based Metrics,” on
page 77.
Metrics marked with an asterisk (*) provide the most relevant data to use when you troubleshoot the virtual
machines in your environment.
Configuration Metrics for Virtual Machines
Conguration metrics provide information about virtual machine conguration.
Metric Description
Cong|Thin Provisioned Disk Thin Provisioned Disk.
Cong|Number of CPUs Number of CPUs for a Virtual Machine.
Cong|Disk Space Disk space metrics.
Key: cong|hardware|thin_Enabled
Key: cong|hardware|num_Cpu
Key: cong|hardware|disk_Space
CPU Usage Metrics for Virtual Machines
CPU usage metrics provide information about CPU use.
Metric Description
CPU|IO Wait (ms) CPU time spent waiting for IO.
Key: cpu|iowait
CPU|Wait (ms) Wait time in milliseconds.
Key: cpu|wait
CPU|Overall CPU Contention (ms) The amount of time the CPU cannot run due to
contention.
Key: cpu|capacity_contention
CPU|Reservation Used CPU Reservation Used.
Key: cpu|reservation_used
CPU|Eective Limit CPU Eective Limit.
Key: cpu|eective_limit
CPU|Estimated Entitlement CPU Estimated Entitlement.
key: cpu|estimated_entitlement
CPU|Idle (%) Percentage time that CPU is idle.
Key: cpu|idlePct
CPU|IO Wait (%) Percentage IO Wait.
Key: cpu|iowaitPct
CPU|Swap wait (%) Percentage swap wait for CPU.
Key: cpu|swapwaitPct
CPU|Wait (%) Percentage of total CPU time spent in wait state.
Key: cpu|waitPct
CPU|System (%) Percentage CPU time spent on system processes.
Key: cpu|systemSummationPct
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Metric Description
CPU|Demand Over Limit (MHz) Amount of CPU Demand that is over the congured
CPU Limit.
Key: cpu|demandOverLimit
CPU|Demand Over Capacity (MHz) Amount of CPU Demand that is over the congured
CPU Capacity.
Key: cpu|demandOverCapacity
CPU|Recommended Size Reduction (%) Percentage of recommended CPU size reduction.
Key: cpu|sizePctReduction
CPU|Normalized Co-stop Percentage of co-stop time, normalized across all
vCPUs.
Key: cpu|perCpuCoStopPct
CPU|Recommended number of vCPUs to Add Recommended number of vCPUs to Add to the VM.
Key: cpu|numberToAdd
CPU|Recommended number of vCPUs to Remove Recommended number of vCPUs to Remove from the
VM.
Key: cpu|numberToRemove
CPU|Capacity entitlement (MHz) CPU entitlement for the VM after taking limits into
account.
Key: cpu|capacity_entitlement
CPU|Provisioned CPU Cores Number of provisioned CPU cores.
Key: cpu|corecount_provisioned
CPU|Capacity Demand Entitlement (% Percent capacity demand entitlement.
Key: cpu|capacity_demandEntitlementPct
* CPU|CPU Contention (%) CPU contention as a percentage of 20-second collection
interval.
Key: cpu|capacity_contentionPct
CPU|Capacity Provisioned Provisioned CPU capacity in megahertrz.
Key: cpu|capacity_provisioned
CPU|Demand (MHz) CPU demand in megaher.
Key: cpu|demandmhz
CPU|Host demand for aggregation Host demand for aggregation.
Key: cpu|host_demand_for_aggregation
CPU|Demand (ms) The total CPU time that the VM could use if there was
no contention.
Key: cpu|demand_average
CPU|Demand (%) CPU demand as a percentage of the provisioned
capacity.
Key: cpu|demandPct
CPU|Dynamic Entitlement CPU Dynamic Entitlement.
Key: cpu|dynamic_entitlement
* CPU|Usage (%) This metric indicates the percentage of CPU that was
used out of all the CPU that was allocated to the VM.
CPU usage can indicate if the VM is undersized.
Key: cpu|usage_average
CPU|Usage (MHz) CPU use in megaher.
Key: cpu|usagemhz_average
CPU|System (ms) CPU time spent on system processes.
Key: cpu|system_summation
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Metric Description
CPU|Wait (ms) Total time that a virtual CPU can not be run. It could
CPU|Ready (ms) CPU time spent in the ready state.
* CPU|Ready (%) This metric indicates the percentage of time in which
CPU|Used (ms) CPU time that is used.
CPU|Extra (ms) Extra CPU time in milliseconds.
CPU|Guaranteed (ms) CPU time that is guaranteed for the virtual machine.
CPU|Swap Wait (ms) Swap wait time in milliseconds.
CPU|Co-stop (ms) Time the VM is ready to run, but is unable to due to
CPU|Co-stop (%) Percentage of time the VM is ready to run, but is
CPU|Idle (ms) CPU time that is idle.
CPU|Latency Percentage of time the VM is unable to run because it
CPU|Max Limited Time the VM is ready to run, but is not run due to
CPU|Overlap Time the VM was interrupted to perform system
CPU|Run Time the VM is scheduled to run.
CPU|Entitlement Latest Entitlement Latest.
be idle (halted) or waiting for an external event such as
I/O.
Key: cpu|wait_summation
Key: cpu|ready_summation
the VM was waiting in line to use the CPU on the host.
A large ready time for a VM indicates that the VM
needed CPU resources but the infrastructure was busy
serving other VMs. This might indicate that the host is
trying to serve too many VMs.
Whenever the CPU ready is larger than 10%, you
should check if the host is overloaded, or if the VM
really needs all the resources that were allocated to it.
Key: cpu|readyPct
Key: cpu|used_summation
Key: cpu|extra_summation
Key: cpu|guaranteed_latest
Key: cpu|swapwait_summation
co-scheduling constraints.
Key: cpu|costop_summation
unable to due to co-scheduling constraints.
Key: cpu|costopPct
Key: cpu|idle_summation
is contending for access to the physical CPUs.
Key: cpu|latency_average
maxing out its CPU limit seing.
Key: cpu|maxlimited_summation
services on behalf of that VM or other VMs.
Key: cpu|overlap_summation
Key: cpu|run_summation
Key: cpu|entitlement_latest
CPU Utilization for Resources Metrics for Virtual Machines
CPU utilization for resources metrics provide information about resource CPU use.
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Metric Description
rescpu|CPU Active (%) (interval) The average active time (actav) or peak active time (actpk) for the CPU
during various intervals.
Key:
rescpu|actav1_latest
rescpu|actav5_latest
rescpu|actav15_latest
rescpu|actpk1_latest
rescpu|actpk5_latest
rescpu|actpk15_latest
rescpu|CPU Running (%) (interval) The average runtime (runav) or peak active time (runpk) for the CPU
during various intervals.
Key:
rescpu|runav1_latest
rescpu|runav5_latest
rescpu|runav15_latest
rescpu|runpk1_latest
rescpu|runpk5_latest
rescpu|runpk15_latest
rescpu|CPU Throled (%) (interval) Amount of CPU resources over the limit that were refused, average
over various intervals.
Key:
rescpu|maxLimited1_latest
rescpu|maxLimited5_latest
rescpu|maxLimited15_latest
rescpu|Group CPU Sample Count The sample CPU count.
Key: rescpu|sampleCount_latest
rscpu|Group CPU Sample Period (ms) The sample period.
Key: rscpu|samplePeriod_latest
Memory Metrics for Virtual Machines
Memory metrics provide information about memory use and allocation.
Metric Description
Mem|Host Active (KB) Host active memory use in kilobytes.
Key: mem|host_active
Mem|Usage (KB) Memory use in kilobytes.
Key: mem|host_usage
Mem|Contention (KB) Memory contention in kilobytes.
Key: mem|host_contention
Mem|Contention (%) Percent memory contention.
Key: mem|host_contentionPct
Mem|Guest Congured Memory (KB) Guest operating system congured memory in kilobytes.
Key: mem|guest_provisioned
Mem|Guest Dynamic Entitlement (KB) Guest Memory Dynamic Entitlement.
Key: mem|guest_dynamic_entitlement
Mem|Guest Active Memory (%) Percent guest operating system active memory.
Key: mem|guest_activePct
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Metric Description
Mem|Guest Non Pageable Memory (KB) Guest operating system non-pageable memory in
Mem|Reservation Used Memory Reservation Used.
Mem|Eective Limit Memory Eective Limit.
Mem|Estimated Entitlement Memory Estimated Entitlement.
Mem|Demand for aggregation Host demand for aggregation.
Mem|NUMA Remote Latest Non-uniform memory access Remote (Kb).
Mem|NUMA Local Latest Non-uniform memory access Local (Kb).
Mem|NUMA Migrations Latest Non-uniform memory access Migrations (number).
Mem|NUMA Locality Average Non-uniform memory access Locality (%).
Mem|Demand Over Limit Amount of Memory Demand that is over the congured
Mem|Demand Over Capacity Amount of Memory Demand that is over the congured
Mem|Recommended Size Reduction (%) Percentage of recommended Memory size reduction.
Mem|Balloon (%) Percentage of total memory that has been reclaimed via
* Mem|Guest Usage (KB) This metric shows the amount of memory the VM uses.
Mem|Guest Demand (KB) Guest operating system demand in kilobytes.
Mem|Guest Non Pageable Memory (KB) Guest operating system non-pageable memory in
Mem|Host Demand (KB) Memory demand in kilobytes.
Mem|Demand with Reservation (KB) Memory Demand with Reservation considered in KB.
Mem|Guest Workload Guest Workload (%).
Mem|Host Workload Host Workload (%).
kilobytes.
Key: mem|guest_nonpageable_estimate
Key: mem|reservation_used
Key: mem|eective_limit
Key: mem|estimated_entitlement
Key: mem|host_demand_for_aggregation
Key: mem|numa.remote_latest
Key: mem|numa.local_latest
Key: mem|numa.migrations_latest
Key: mem|numa.locality_average
Memory Limit.
Key: mem|demandOverLimit
Memory Capacity.
Key: mem|demandOverCapacity
Key: mem|sizePctReduction
ballooning.
Key: mem|balloonPct
Key: mem|guest_usage
Key: mem|guest_demand
kilobytes.
Key: mem|host_nonpageable_estimate
Key mem|host_demand
Key: mem|host_demand_reservation
Key: mem|guest_workload
Key: host_workload
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Metric Description
Mem|Balloon (%) Amount of memory currently used by the virtual machine
memory control.
Key: mem|vmmemctl_average
Mem|Guest Active (%) Amount of memory that is actively used.
Key: mem|active_average
Mem|Granted (KB) Amount of memory available for use.
Key: mem|granted_average
Mem|Shared (KB) Amount of shared memory in kilobytes.
Key: mem|shared_average
Mem|Zero (KB) Amount of memory that is all 0.
Key: mem|zero_average
* Mem|Swapped (KB) This metric shows how much memory is being swapped.
Meaning, the amount of unreserved memory in kilobytes.
Key: mem|swapped_average
Mem|Swap Target (KB) Amount of memory that can be swapped in kilobytes.
Key: mem|swaptarget_average
Mem|Swap In (KB) Swap-in memory in kilobytes.
Key: mem|swapin_average
Mem|Swap Out (KB) amount of memory swapped out in kilobytes.
Key: mem|swapout_average
* Mem|Usage (%) This metric shows how much memory is being used out
of the allocated memory for the VM.
Key: mem|usage_average
Mem|Balloon Target (KB) Amount of memory that can be used by the virtual
machine memory control.
Key: mem|vmmemctltarget_average
Mem|Consumed (KB) Amount of host memory consumed by the virtual
machine for guest memory in kilobytes.
Key: mem|consumed_average
Mem|Overhead (KB) Memory overhead in kilobytes.
Key: mem|overhead_average
Mem|Host Dynamic Entitlement Mem Machine Dynamic Entitlement.
Key: mem|host_dynamic_entitlement
Mem|Swap In Rate (KBps) Rate at which memory is swapped from disk into active
memory during the interval.
Key: mem|swapinRate_average
Mem|Swap Out Rate (KBps) Rate at which memory is being swapped from active
memory to disk during the current interval.
Key: mem|swapoutRate_average
Mem|Active Write (KB) Active writes in kilobytes.
Key: mem|activewrite_average
Mem|Compressed (KB) Compressed memory in kilobytes.
Key: mem|compressed_average
Mem|Compression Rate (KBps) Compression rate in kilobytes per second.
Key: mem|commpressionRate_average
Mem|Decompression Rate (KBps) Decompression rate in kilobytes per second.
Key: mem|decompressionRate_average
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Metric Description
Mem|Overhead Max (KB) Maximum overhead in kilobytes.
Mem|Zip Saved (KB) Zip-saved memory in kilobytes.
Mem|Zipped (KB) Zipped memory in kilobytes.
Mem|Entitlement Amount of host physical memory the VM is entitled to, as
Mem|Latency Percentage of time the VM is waiting to access swapped
Mem|Capacity Contention Capacity Contention.
Mem|Swap In Rate from Host Cache Rate at which memory is being swapped from host cache
Mem|Swap Out Rate to Host Cache Rate at which memory is being swapped to host cache
Mem|Swap Space Used in Host Cache Space used for caching swapped pages in the host cache.
Mem|Overhead Touched Actively touched overhead memory (KB) reserved for use
Key: mem|overheadMax_average
Key: mem|zipSaved_latest
Key: mem|zipped_latest
determined by the ESX schedule.
Key: mem|entitlement_average
or compressed memory.
Key: mem|latency_average
Key: mem|capacity.contention_average
into active memory.
Key: mem|llSwapInRate_average
from active memory.
Key: mem|llSwapOutRate_average
Key: mem|llSwapUsed_average
as the virtualization overhead for the VM.
Key: mem|overheadTouched_average
Datastore Metrics for Virtual Machines
Datastore metrics provide information about datastore use.
Metric Description
Datastore|Commands per second Average number of commands issued per second during
the collection interval.
Key:datastore|commandsAveraged_average
Datastore|Outstanding IO requests OIO for datastore.
Key: datastore|demand_oio
Datastore|Number of Outstanding IO Operations Number of outstanding IO operations.
Key: datastore|oio
Datastore|Demand Datastore demand.
Key: datastore|demand
Datastore|Disk Command Latency (ms) The average amount of time taken for a command from
the perspective of a Guest OS. This is the sum of Kernel
Command Latency and Physical Device Command
Latency.
Key: datastore|totalLatency_average
Datastore|Usage Average (KBps) Usage Average (KBps).
Key: datastore|usage_average
Datastore|Used Space (MB) Used space in megabytes.
Key: datastore|used
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Metric Description
Datastore|Not Shared (GB) Space used by VMs that is not shared.
Key: datastore|notshared
* Datastore|Reads per second Average number of read commands issued per second
during the collection interval.
Key: datastore|numberReadAveraged_average
* Datastore|Writes per second Average number of write commands issued per second
during the collection interval.
Key: datastore|numberWriteAveraged_average
* Datastore|Read Rate (KBps) This metric shows the amount of data that the VM reads
to the datastore per second..
Key: datastore|read_average
*Datastore|Read Latency (ms) Average amount of time for a read operation from the
datastore. Total latency = kernel latency + device latency.
Key: datastore|totalReadLatency_average
*Datastore|Write Latency (ms) Average amount of time for a write operation to the
datastore. Total latency = kernel latency + device latency.
Key: datastore|totalWriteLatency_average
* Datastore|Write Rate This metric shows the amount of data that the VM writes
to the datastore per second.
Key: datastore|write_average
Datastore|Highest Latency Highest Latency.
Key: datastore|maxTotalLatency_latest
Datastore|Total Latency Max Total Latency Max (ms).
Key: datastore|totalLatency_max
Datastore|Max Observed Reads per second Max observed average number of read commands issued
per second during the collection interval.
Key: datastore|maxObserved_NumberRead
Datastore|Max Observed Read Rate Max observed rate of reading data from the datastore.
Key: datastore|maxObserved_Read
Datastore|Max Observed Writes per second Max observed average number of write commands
issued per second during the collection interval.
Key: datastore|maxObserved_NumberWrite
Datastore|Max Observed Write Rate Max observed rate of writing data from the datastore.
Key: datastore|maxObserved_Write
Datastore|Max Observed Number of Outstanding IO
Operations
Max Observed Number of Outstanding IO Operations.
Key: datastore|maxObserved_OIO
Disk Metrics for Virtual Machines
Disk metrics provide information about disk use.
Metric Description
Disk|Reads per second Average number of read commands issued per second
during the collection interval.
Key: disk|numberReadAveraged_average
Disk|Writes per second Average number of write commands issued per second
during the collection interval.
Key: disk|numberWriteAveraged_average
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Metric Description
Disk|Commands per second Average number of commands issued per second
Disk|Usage Rate (KBps) Use rate in kilobytes per second.
Disk|I/O Usage Capacity This metric is a function of storage|usage_average and
Disk|Number of Outstanding IO Operations Number of outstanding IO operations.
Disk|Queued Operations Queued operations.
Disk|Demand (%) Percent demand.
Disk |Total Queued Outstanding Operations Sum of Queued Operation and Outstanding
Disk|Max Observed OIO Max Observed IO for a disk.
Disk|Read Rate (KBps) Amount of data read in the performance interval.
Disk|Write Rate (KBps) Amount of data wrien to disk in the performance
Disk|Read Requests Number of times data was read from the disk in the
Disk|Write Requests Number of times data was wrien to the disk in the
Disk|Bus Resets The number of bus resets in the performance interval.
Disk|Commands Issued The number of disk commands issued in the
Disk|Commands Aborted The number of disk commands aborted in the
Disk|Highest Latency Highest latency.
Disk|SCSI Reservation Conicts SCSI Reservation Conicts.
Disk|Disk Read Latency The average amount of time taken for a read from the
during the collection interval.
Key: disk|commandsAveraged_average
Key: disk|usage_average
disk|workload. storage|usage_average is an average
over all storage devices. This means that disk|
usage_capacity is not specic to the selected VM or the
host of the VM.
Key: disk|usage_capacity
Key: disk|diskoio
Key: disk|diskqueued
Key: disk|diskdemand
Operations.
Key: disk |sum_queued_oio
Key: disk|max_observed
Key: disk|read_average
interval.
Key: disk|write_average
dened interval.
Key: disk|numberRead_summation
dened interval.
Key: disk|numberWrite_summation
Key: disk|busResets_summation
performance interval.
Key: disk|commands_summation
performance interval.
Key: disk|commandsAborted_summation
Key: disk|maxTotalLatency_latest
Key: disk|scsiReservationConicts_summation
perspective of a Guest OS. This is the sum of Kernel
Read Latency and Physical Device Read Latency.
Key: disk|totalReadLatency_average
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Metric Description
Disk|Disk Write Latency The average amount of time taken for a write from the
perspective of a Guest OS. This is the sum of Kernel
Write Latency and Physical Device Write Latency.
Key: disk|totalWriteLatency_average
Disk|Disk Command Latency (ms) The average amount of time taken for a command from
the perspective of a Guest OS. This is the sum of Kernel
Command Latency and Physical Device Command
Latency.
Key: disk|totalLatency_average
Virtual Disk Metrics for Virtual Machines
Virtual disk metrics provide information about virtual disk use.
Metric Description
VirtualDisk|Usage Average CPU usage as a percentage.
Key: virtualDisk|usage
VirtualDisk|Total Latency Total latency.
Key: virtualDisk|totalLatency
VirtualDisk|Commands Per Second Average number of commands per second.
Key: virtualDisk|commandsAveraged_average
VirtualDisk|Read Requests Average number of read commands issued per second
to the virtual disk during the collection interval.
Key: virtualDisk|numberReadAveraged_average
VirtualDisk|Write Requests Average number of write commands issued per second
to the virtual disk during the collection interval.
Key: virtualDisk|numberWriteAveraged_average
VirtualDisk|Read Rate (KBps) Rate of reading data from the virtual disk in kilobytes
per second.
Key: virtualDisk|read_average
VirtualDisk|Read Latency (ms) Average amount of time for a read operation from the
virtual disk. Total latency = kernel latency + device
latency.
Key: virtualDisk|totalReadLatency_average
VirtualDisk|Write Latency (ms) Average amount of time for a write operation to the
virtual disk. Total latency = kernel latency + device
latency.
Key: virtualDisk|totalWriteLatency_average
VirtualDisk|Write Rate (KBps) Rate of writing data from the virtual disk in kilobytes
per second.
Key: virtualDisk|write_average
VirtualDisk|Bus Resets The number of bus resets in the performance interval.
Key: virtualDisk|busResets_summation
VirtualDisk|Commands Aborted The number of disk commands aborted in the
performance interval.
Key: virtualDisk|commandsAborted_summation
VirtualDisk|Read Load Storage DRS virtual disk metric read load.
Key: virtualDisk|readLoadMetric_latest
VirtualDisk|Outstanding Read Requests Average number of outstanding read requests to the
virtual disk.
Key: virtualDisk|readOIO_latest
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Metric Description
VirtualDisk|Write Load Storage DRS virtual disk write load.
VirtualDisk|Outstanding Write Requests Average number of outstanding write requests to the
VirtualDisk|Number of Small Seeks Small Seeks.
VirtualDisk|Number of Medium Seeks Medium Seeks.
VirtualDisk|Number of Large Seeks Large Seeks.
VirtualDisk|Read Latency (microseconds) Read Latency in microseconds.
VirtualDisk|Write Latency (microseconds) Write Latency in microseconds.
VirtualDisk|Average Read request size Read IO size.
VirtualDisk|Average Write request size Write IO size.
Key: virtualDisk|writeLoadMetric_latest
virtual disk.
Key: virtualDisk|writeOIO_latest
Key: virtualDisk|smallSeeks_latest
Key: virtualDisk|mediumSeeks_latest
Key: virtualDisk|largeSeeks_latest
Key: virtualDisk|readLatencyUS_latest
Key: virtualDisk|writeLatencyUS_latest
Key: virtualDisk|readIOSize_latest
Key: virtualDisk|writeIOSize_latest
Guest File System Metrics for Virtual Machines
Guest le system metrics provide information about guest le system capacity and free space.
Metric Description
Guest le system|Guest File System Capacity (MB) Total capacity on guest le system in megabytes.
Key: guestlesystem|capacity
Guest le system|Guest File System Free (MB) Total free space on guest le system in megabytes.
Key: guestlesystem|freespace
Guest le system|Guest File System Usage (%) Percent guest le system.
Key: guestlesystem|percentage
Guest le system|Guest File System Usage Total usage of guest le system.
Key: guestlesystem|usage
* Guest le system|Total Guest File System Free (GB) This metric displays the amount of free disk space from all le
systems aached to this VM.
Use this metric to see if there are spikes in the free space or if
there is an organic growth for this VM.
Key: guestlesystem|freespace_total
* Guest le system|Total Guest File System Capacity
(GB)
This metric displays the amount of disk space allocated for the
VM.
Correlate other metrics with this metric to indicate if changes
occur in the disk space allocation for the VM.
Key: guestlesystem|capacity_total
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Metric Description
* Guest le system|Total Guest File System Usage (%) This metric displays the amount of displa space being used out
of the total allocated disk space.
Use his metric to track if the overall usage is stable, or if it
reaches the limits. You should avoid having VMs with a disk
space usage of >95% since this could impact your system.
Key: guestlesystem|percentage_total
Guest le system|Total Guest File System Usage Total usage of guest le system.
Key: guestlesystem|usage_total
Network Metrics for Virtual Machines
Network metrics provide information about network performance.
Metric Description
Net|Demand (%) Percent demand.
Key: net|demand
Net|Usage Rate (KBps) The sum of the data transmied and received for all the NIC
instances of the host or virtual machine.
Key: net|usage_average
Net|Packets Received per second Number of packets received in the performance interval.
Key: net|packetsRxPerSec
Net|Packets Transmied per second Number of packets transmied in the performance interval.
Key: net|packetsTxPerSec
* Net|Data Transmit Rate (KBps) This metric shows the rate of data being sent by the VM per
second.
Key: net|transmied_average
* Net|Data Receive Rate (KBps) This metric shows the rate of data received by the VM per
second.
Key: net|received_average
Net|Packets per second Number of packets transmied and received per second.
Key: net|PacketsPerSec
Net|I/O Usage Capacity IO use capacity.
Key: net|usage_capacity
Net|Max Observed Throughput (KBps) Maximum observed throughput in kilobytes per second.
Key: net|maxObserved_KBps
Net|Max Observed Transmied Throughput Max observed transmied rate of network throughput.
Key: net|maxObserved_Tx_KBps
Net|Max Observed Received Throughput Max observed received rate of network throughput.
Key: net|maxObserved_Rx_KBps
Net|Packets Received Number of packets received in the performance interval.
Key: net|packetsRx_summation
Net|Packets Transmied Number of packets transmied in the performance interval.
Key: net|packetsTx_summation
* Net|Received Packets Dropped This metric shows the number of received packets dropped in
the collection interval.
Key: net|droppedRx_summation
* Net|Transmied Packets Dropped This metric shows the number of transmied packets
dropped in the collection interval
Key: net|dropppedTx_summation
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Metric Description
Net|Packets Dropped (%) Percentage of packets dropped.
Net|Packets Dropped Number of packets dropped in the performance interval.
Net|Broadcast Packets Transmied Number of broadcast packets transmied during the
Net|Broadcast Packets Received Number of broadcast packets received during the sampling
Net|Bytes Rx (KBps) Average amount of data received per second.
Net|Bytes Tx (KBps) Average amount of data transmied per second.
Net|Multicast Packets Received Number of multicast packets received.
Net|Multicast Packets Transmied Number of multicast packets transmied.
Net|VM to Host Data Transmit Rate Average amount of data transmied per second between VM
Net|VM to Host Data Receive Rate Average amount of data received per second between VM
Net|VM to Host Usage Rate The sum of the data transmied and received for all the NIC
Net|VM to Host Max Observed Transmied Throughput Max observed transmied rate of network throughput
Net|VM to Host Max Observed Received Throughput Max observed received rate of network throughput between
Net|VM to Host Max Observed Throughput Max observed rate of network throughput between VM and
Net|Data Transmit Demand Rate Data transmied demand rate.
Net|Data Receive Demand Rate Data received demand rate.
Key: net|droppedPct
Key: net|dropped
sampling interval.
Key: net|broadcastTx_summation
interval.
Key: net|broadcastRx_summation
Key: net|bytesRx_average
Key: net|bytesTx_average
Key: net|multicastRx_summation
Key: net|multicastTx_summation
and host.
Key: net|host_transmied_average
and host.
Key: net|host_received_average
instances between VM and host.
Key: net|host_usage_average
between VM and host.
Key: net|host_maxObserved_Tx_KBps
VM and host.
Key: net|host_maxObserved_Rx_KBps
host.
Key: net|host_maxObserved_KBps
Key: net|transmit_demand_average
Key: net|receive_demand_average
System Metrics for Virtual Machines
System metrics for virtual machines provide general information about the virtual machine, such as its build
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Metric Description
Sys|Powered ON Powered on virtual machines. 1 if powered on, 0 if powered o, -1 if
unknown
Key: sys|poweredOn
Sys|Uptime (seconds) Number of seconds since system startup.
Key: sys|uptime_latest
Sys|Heartbeat Number of heartbeats from the virtual machine in the dened
interval.
Key: sys|heartbeat_summation
Sys|vMotion Enabled 1 if vMotion is enabled or 0 if vMotion is not enabled.
Key: sys|vmotionEnabled
Sys|Product String VMware product string.
Key: sys|productString
Sys|Build Number VMware build number.
Key: sys|build
Sys|OS Uptime Total time elapsed, in seconds, since last operating system boot-up.
Key: sys|osUptime_latest
Power Metrics for Virtual Machines
Power metrics provide information about power use.
Metric Description
Power|Energy (Joule) Energy use in joules.
Key: power|energy_summation
Power|Power (Wa) Average power use in was.
Key: power|power_average
Disk Space Metrics for Virtual Machines
Disk space metrics provide information about disk space use.
Metric Description
Diskspace|Not Shared (GB) Unshared space in kilobytes.
Key: diskspace|notshared
Diskspace|Number of Virtual Disks Number of virtual disks.
Key: diskspace|numvmdisk
Diskspace|Provisioned Space (GB) Provisioned space in gigabytes.
Key: diskspace|provisioned
Diskspace|Provisioned Space for VM Provisioned space for VM.
Key: diskspace|provisionedSpace
Diskspace|Shared Used (GB) Shared used space in gigabytes.
Key: diskspace|shared
Diskspace|Snapshot Space (GB) Space used by snapshots.
Key: diskspace|snapshot
Diskspace|Virtual Disk Used (GB) Space used by virtual disks in gigabytes.
Key: diskspace|diskused
Diskspace|Virtual machine used (GB) Space used by virtual machine les in gigabytes.
Key: diskspace|used
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Metric Description
Diskspace|Total disk space used Total disk space used on all datastores visible to this object.
Diskspace|Total disk space Total disk space on all datastores visible to this object.Key:
Diskspace|Total provisioned disk space Total provisioned disk space on all datastores visible to this
Diskspace|Active not shared Unshared disk space used by VMs excluding snapshot.
Storage Metrics for Virtual Machines
Storage metrics provide information about storage use.
Metric Description
Storage|Commands per second Average number of commands issued per second during the
Storage|Contention (%) Percent contention.
Storage|Demand (KBps) Demand in kilobytes per second.
* Storage|Read Latency (ms) This metric shows the latency that the VM experiences while
Storage|Read Rate (KBps) Read throughput rate in kilobytes per second.
Storage|Reads per second Average number of read commands issued per second during
Storage|Total Latency (ms) Total latency in milliseconds.
Storage|Total Usage (KBps) Total throughput rate in kilobytes per second.
* Storage|Write Latency (ms) This metric shows the latency that this VM experiences while
Storage|Write Rate (KBps) Write throughput rate in kilobytes per second.
Storage|Writes per second Average number of write commands issued per second during
Key: diskspace|total_usage
diskspace|total_capacity
object.
Key: diskspace|total_provisioned
Key: diskspace|activeNotShared
collection interval.
Key: storage|commandsAveraged_average
Key: storage|contention
Key: storage|demandKBps
performing a read action.
Key: storage|totalReadLatency_average
Key: storage|read_average
the collection interval.
Key: storage|numberReadAveraged_average
Key: storage|totalLatency_average
Key: storage|usage_average
performing a write action.
Key: storage|totalWriteLatency_average
Key: storage|write_average
the collection interval.
Key: storage|numberWriteAveraged_average
Summary Metrics for Virtual Machines
Summary metrics provide information about overall performance.
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