Virtualization · VMware

Virtualization · VMware uses the vSphere interface of an ESXi host or vCenter over HTTPS, usually on port 443. Use an account with read permissions.

Selection/field	Meaning
Hosts: state, CPU and RAM	Host state and utilization
Virtual machines	VM operation, health state and available quick statistics
Datastores: accessibility and usage	Accessibility and usage values
These VMs must remain running	Expected running VM names or IDs per line; alternatively, select them from the connection test
Thresholds in percent	CPU, RAM and storage usage; default warning at 80 % and critical at 95 %
VMware performance data → Discover performance counters	Read additional vSphere performance counters
Collect VMware events	Collect events from the selected period
Maximum objects per performance check	1 to 200, default 50
Events in the last … minutes	1 to 1.440, default 15

At least one of the Hosts, VMs or Datastores areas must be enabled. For expected VMs, Virtual machines must be active. Powered-off VMs that are not explicitly expected do not cause an operational error simply because they are powered off. If a VM is not running, its performance values may be missing; the result row explains this. Availability of performance counters and events depends on vSphere and read permissions.