vSphere default checks and policies

  • Rversion finale: Australia
  • Mis à jour 12 mars 2026
  • 1 minute de lecture

    • Agent Client Collector provides the following default checks and policies for vSphere monitoring.

    Tableau 1. vSphere virtualMachine metrics policy
    Type Check Description Usage Output
    Metric vsphere.metric-VirtualMachine Retrieves metrics for a vSphere virtual machine. Must use a proxy agent. commonchecks metric-vsphere -H hostname -R VirtualMachine -v vm_id -r true -i 20
    where:
    • -H = hostname Instance Hostname
    • -i = intervalId 20 for real time metrics; 300 for 5 minutes older aggregate metrics (default 300)
    • -r = resourceLevelMetric To enable resource level metrics (default=false)
    		 vsphere.VirtualMachine.disk.usage.average.total 8 1654755994
    Tableau 2. vSphere Datastore Metrics policy
    Type Check Description Usage Output
    Metric vSphere.metric-Datastore Retrieves Metrics for vSphere Datastore. Must use a proxy agent. commonchecks metric-vsphere -H hostname -R Datastore -v vm_id -r
    where:
    • -H = hostname Instance Hostname
    • -r = resourceLevelMetric To enable resource level metrics (default=false)
    		 vsphere.Datastore.disk.capacity.latest.total 21474836480 1655182836
    Tableau 3. vSphere Datacenter Metrics policy
    Type Check Description Usage Output
    Metric vsphere.metric-Datacenter Retrieves metrics for the vSphere datacenter. commonchecks metric-vsphere -H hostname -R Datacenter -v vm_id -r
    where:
    • -H = hostname Instance Hostname
    • -r = resourceLevelMetric To enable resource level metrics (default=false)
    		 
    vsphere.Datacenter.vmop.numChangeDS.latest.total 217 1655194924
vsphere.Datacenter.vmop.numChangeHost.latest.total 1373 1655194924
vsphere.Datacenter.vmop.numChangeHostDS.latest.total 9 1655194924
vsphere.Datacenter.vmop.numClone.latest.total 192 1655194924
    Tableau 4. vSphere ESX Server Metrics policy
    Type Check Description Usage Output
    Metric vsphere.metric-ESX_Server Retrieves metrics for vSphere ESX server or HostSystem. Must use a proxy agent. commonchecks metric-vsphere -H hostname -R HostSystem -v vm_id -r
    where:
    • -H = hostname Instance Hostname
    • -r = resourceLevelMetric To enable resource level metrics (default=false)
    		 
    vsphere.HostSystem.net.broadcastRx.summation.total 63885 1655198166
vsphere.HostSystem.net.broadcastTx.summation.total 196 1655198166
vsphere.HostSystem.net.bytesRx.average.total 5924 1655198166