README.md

Monitoring vSphere using Grafana and Telegraf, Victoriametrics/Prometheus

A way to retrieve vCenter information and integrate it with Victoriametrics, to present it later with Grafana

Important

Requirements:

• vCenter 6.5 or newer
• Telegraf 1.0 or newer
• Prometheus / Victoriametrics 1.90
• Grafana 11 or newer
• DNS

A сouple of Grafana dashboards.

Hosts

vSphere Overview

Configuration

vCenter

• Create ReadOnly user
• Configure config.vpxd.stats.maxQueryMetrics

Telegraf

• configure Telegraf Input

[[inputs.vsphere]]
  interval = "60s"
  vcenters = [ "https://someaddress/sdk" ]
  username = "readonly@vsphere.local"
  password = "secret"

  insecure_skip_verify = true
  force_discover_on_init = true

• Add Prometheus output section to your telegraf.conf

  [[outputs.prometheus_client]]
  listen = ":9273"

• Add your Telegraf agent name to DNS (example: telegraf-vcenter.local.domain)
• Check metrics - http://telegraf-vcenter.local.domain:9273/metrics

Victoriametrics / Prometheus

• Setup target for prometheus agents:

- targets:
  - 'telegraf-vcenter.local.domain:9273'

  labels:
    job: vcenters

Grafana

• Add your Victoriametrics as Prometheus datasource
• Import Dashboards from this repository

Repository for the VMware, Grafana, Telegraf an InfluxDB integration - https://github.com/jorgedlcruz/vmware-grafana