vSphere / Vcenter exporter

[manda.u...@gmail.com]

is there any vSphere or VCenter exporter available to pull the VMWare stats and events into Promethius ?

[Toni Schmidbauer]

manda.u...@gmail.com writes:
> is there any vSphere or VCenter exporter available to pull the VMWare
> stats and events into Promethius ?

afaik not an official one. but a quick google found this:

https://github.com/brandonweeks/vsphere_exporter

seems unfinished, but worth a try. we are also very interested in a
vsphere exporter. i'll try to get the one listed above working within
the next weeks. my go knowledge is limited so this could take a while
:-)

hth
toni

[Mike Knell]

FWIW, I’ve been working (slowly, as I had to learn go in the meantime) on getting some useful metrics out of VSphere over the last couple of weeks - the existing exporter is pretty crude and low-level, and we’re more interested in monitoring at the VM level. Happy to share the work in progress, although I think “release” would be a slightly excessive term for it.

Mike

[Toni Schmidbauer]

Mike Knell <m...@uffish.net> writes:
> FWIW, I’ve been working (slowly, as I had to learn go in the meantime)
> on getting some useful metrics out of VSphere over the last couple of
> weeks - the existing exporter is pretty crude and low-level, and we’re
> more interested in monitoring at the VM level. Happy to share the work
> in progress, although I think “release” would be a slightly excessive
> term for it.

i would be really grateful if you could share your current work. don't
worry about quality, i'm a go newbie myself, so my guess is we will
learn both from the experience :-)

we are monitoring the vm's as well, but it would be nice to have some
basic performance data from the underlying esx hosts.

thanks
toni

[Rémi Verchère]

Hi,

Le lundi 24 avril 2017 11:31:08 UTC+2, Toni Schmidbauer a écrit :

i would be really grateful if you could share your current work. don't
worry about quality, i'm a go newbie myself, so my guess is we will
learn both from the experience :-)

I've also started writing some VMWare exporter, you can check current work here:
https://github.com/rverchere/vmware_exporter

It only get VM Snapshots infos for now, I hope getting more metrics soon. Any help or suggestions are welcome.

Rémi 

[Julius Volz]

On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 6:08 PM, Rémi Verchère <re...@verchere.fr> wrote:

Hi,

Le lundi 24 avril 2017 11:31:08 UTC+2, Toni Schmidbauer a écrit :

i would be really grateful if you could share your current work. don't
worry about quality, i'm a go newbie myself, so my guess is we will
learn both from the experience :-)

I've also started writing some VMWare exporter, you can check current work here:
https://github.com/rverchere/vmware_exporter

Short feedback on the metric naming. By our conventions, it would be better to change:

- Change "vmware_snapshot_count" to "vmware_snapshots" ("_count" is reserved for counters resulting from histograms / summaries). I assume this is the current number of existing snapshots, not a total counter over time (since the metric type is a gauge). Expanding on the HELP text a bit could help.

- "vmware_snapshot_age" is missing the unit in the metric name (which should always be seconds, not days), but it would also be better to work with if it was a Unix timestamp of the last snapshot instead an age: "vmware_snapshot_timestamp_seconds". Then you can formulate alerts like:

  time() - vmware_snapshot_timestamp_seconds > x

[Julius Volz]

See also: https://prometheus.io/docs/practices/naming/

[Rémi Verchère]

Short feedback on the metric naming. By our conventions, it would be better to change:

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Ok thanks I'll change it, and will read deeper the Metric and label naming page for next metric names.

[sateesh...@gmail.com]

I'm very new to this stuff - excuse me to ask basic questions

I'm core VMware Administrator and need to enable performance charts for Storage IOPs via Grafana/Prometheus 

I saw the code available but do I just need to execute the scripts?  I installed Ubuntu VM and Promethues on it - now I just need to copy the files from your vsphere-exporter?  

Any inputs are highly appreciated.

Thanks

T Sateesh