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vSphere module
editvSphere module
editThe 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
editThe vsphere module comes with a predefined dashboard. For example:
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
The following metricsets are available: