This documentation contains work-in-progress information for future Elastic Stack and Cloud releases. Use the version selector to view supported release docs. It also contains some Elastic Cloud serverless information. Check out our serverless docs for more details.
vSphere host metricset
editvSphere host metricset
editThis is the host metricset of the vSphere module.
This is a default metricset. If the host module is unconfigured, this metricset is enabled by default.
For a description of each field in the metricset, see the exported fields section.
Here is an example document generated by this metricset:
{
"@timestamp": "2022-09-06T06:41:22.128Z",
"metricset": {
"name": "host",
"period": 10000
},
"service": {
"address": "https://localhost:8989/sdk",
"type": "vsphere"
},
"event": {
"module": "vsphere",
"duration": 23519250,
"dataset": "vsphere.host"
},
"vsphere": {
"host": {
"triggered_alarms": [
{
"status": "red",
"triggered_time": "2024-09-09T13:23:00.786Z",
"description": "Default alarm to monitor system boards. See the host's Hardware Status tab for more details.",
"entity_name": "121.0.0.0",
"name": "Host hardware system board status",
"id": "alarm-121.host-12"
},
{
"triggered_time": "2024-09-09T13:23:00.786Z",
"description": "Default alarm to monitor storage. See the host's Hardware Status tab for more details.",
"entity_name": "121.0.0.0",
"name": "Host storage status",
"id": "alarm-124.host-12",
"status": "red"
},
{
"entity_name": "121.0.0.0",
"name": "Host memory usage",
"id": "alarm-4.host-12",
"status": "yellow",
"triggered_time": "2024-08-28T10:31:26.621Z",
"description": "Default alarm to monitor host memory usage"
},
{
"name": "CPU Utilization",
"id": "alarm-703.host-12",
"status": "red",
"triggered_time": "2024-08-28T10:31:26.621Z",
"description": "",
"entity_name": "121.0.0.0"
}
],
"cpu": {
"used": {
"mhz": 67
},
"total": {
"mhz": 4588
},
"free": {
"mhz": 4521
}
},
"disk": {
"capacity": {
"usage": {
"bytes": 0
}
},
"devicelatency": {
"average": {
"ms": 0
}
},
"latency": {
"total": {
"ms": 18
}
},
"total": {
"bytes": 262000
},
"read": {
"bytes": 13000
},
"write": {
"bytes": 248000
}
},
"memory": {
"free": {
"bytes": 2822230016
},
"total": {
"bytes": 4294430720
},
"used": {
"bytes": 1472200704
}
},
"network": {
"bandwidth": {
"total": {
"bytes": 372000
},
"transmitted": {
"bytes": 0
},
"received": {
"bytes": 371000
}
},
"packets": {
"received": {
"count": 9463
},
"errors": {
"transmitted": {
"count": 0
},
"received": {
"count": 0
},
"total": {
"count": 0
}
},
"multicast": {
"total": {
"count": 6679
},
"transmitted": {
"count": 0
},
"received": {
"count": 6679
}
},
"dropped": {
"received": {
"count": 0
},
"total": {
"count": 0
},
"transmitted": {
"count": 0
}
},
"transmitted": {
"count": 54
}
}
},
"vm": {
"count": 2,
"names": [
"DC0_H0_VM0",
"DC0_H0_VM1"
]
},
"datastore": {
"count": 1,
"names": [
"LocalDS_0"
]
},
"network_names": [
"VM Network"
],
"id": "host-0",
"name": "DC0_H0",
"status": "green",
"uptime": 1728865
}
}
}