Gathering alerts from VMware API

[mani...@gmail.com]

I was hoping there would be an export for the VMware API, but I've drawn a blank. My primary purpose is alerts, so I thought I could send an SNMP trap instead, but apparently Promethus doesn't support that either.

I came across brandonweeks' vmware_exporter, but I am not a Go programmer and I'm wary of going down a path that I don't really understand, that could also suck up too much of my time.

I can export any kind of data from the VMware API using PowerCLI and I also have a Python script that extracts performance statistics using pyvmomi, this could be configured to grab any kind of data too. But once extracted, how would I get this data into Prometheus?

Is there a workable solution for this, or is Prometheus the wrong product for monitoring a VMware environment?

[Brian Brazil]

On 9 February 2017 at 11:11, <mani...@gmail.com> wrote:

I was hoping there would be an export for the VMware API, but I've drawn a blank. My primary purpose is alerts, so I thought I could send an SNMP trap instead, but apparently Promethus doesn't support that either.

I came across brandonweeks' vmware_exporter, but I am not a Go programmer and I'm wary of going down a path that I don't really understand, that could also suck up too much of my time.

I can export any kind of data from the VMware API using PowerCLI and I also have a Python script that extracts performance statistics using pyvmomi, this could be configured to grab any kind of data too. But once extracted, how would I get this data into Prometheus?

Once you have the data in Python, it should be relatively easy to get it into Prometheus. See https://www.robustperception.io/writing-a-jenkins-exporter-in-python/

Brian

 

Is there a workable solution for this, or is Prometheus the wrong product for monitoring a VMware environment?

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[mani...@gmail.com]

Thanks Brian, that looks fairly straight forward. Just what I needed :)

On Thursday, 9 February 2017 11:18:12 UTC, Brian Brazil wrote:

On 9 February 2017 at 11:11, <mani...@gmail.com> wrote:

I was hoping there would be an export for the VMware API, but I've drawn a blank. My primary purpose is alerts, so I thought I could send an SNMP trap instead, but apparently Promethus doesn't support that either.

I came across brandonweeks' vmware_exporter, but I am not a Go programmer and I'm wary of going down a path that I don't really understand, that could also suck up too much of my time.

I can export any kind of data from the VMware API using PowerCLI and I also have a Python script that extracts performance statistics using pyvmomi, this could be configured to grab any kind of data too. But once extracted, how would I get this data into Prometheus?

Once you have the data in Python, it should be relatively easy to get it into Prometheus. See https://www.robustperception.io/writing-a-jenkins-exporter-in-python/

Brian

 

Is there a workable solution for this, or is Prometheus the wrong product for monitoring a VMware environment?

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[David Karlsen]

Will you let us know if you make something generic and opensource? 

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