Modern vSphere Monitoring and Dashboard using InfluxDB, Telegraf and Grafana
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In this presentation, InfluxAce Jorge de la Cruz will demonstrate how to create beautiful, and meaningful dashboards from vSphere’s most critical assets like hosts, VM’s, clusters, and data stores. The best part is the whole monitoring system can be deployed in seconds using Docker, and it uses the vSphere SDK, which makes it non-intrusive and very efficient. Discover how to utilize this cost effective monitoring and visualization solution for vSphere environments!
![How to start Monitoring your Environment today?
vSAN Performance Monitor
OVA Created by VMware - Fling
Telegraf.conf
Enabling the [[inputs.vsphere]]
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COLLECTOR VISUALIZATION
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Modern vSphere Monitoring and Dashboard using InfluxDB, Telegraf and Grafana
- 1. Modern vSphere Monitoring and Dashboard InfluxDB, Telegraf, and Grafana
- 2. WHAT WILL WE LEARN TODAY? MONITORING 101 VSPHERE MONITORING INFLUXDB, TELEGRAF AND GRAFANA LEARN FROM THE COMMUNITY, BUILD FOR THE COMMUNITY
- 3. JORGE DE LA CRUZ vExpert, InfluxAce “ Blogging on jorgedelacruz.es since September of 2011 Close to one thousand articles published +800,000 visits last year Husband, and Father
- 4. MONITORING 101 There is a two different type of persons, the ones who have Monitoring and are proactive and …
- 6. SNMP SIMPLE NETWORK MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL An ancient technology as old as the Internet, still relevant Who really named this protocol as “simple”? Important things to bear in mind: • While using v3, use security and encryption at all times! • Obtain the most up to date MIB of the different vendors • Try to avoid “public” SNMP Community
- 7. Real-life example of SNMP configuration in vCenter 6.7 SNMP CONFIGURATION VCSA CLI
- 8. Real-life example of SNMP configuration in vSphere ESXi 6.7 SNMP CONFIGURATION ESXi CLI
- 9. MIB DISSECTION Understanding what a Management Information base (MIB) is, but with images
- 10. MIB DISSECTION Understanding what a Management Information base (MIB) is, but with images VMWARE-ROOT-MIB vmware node 1.3.6.1.4.1.6876 VMWARE-ROOT-MIB vmwNotifications node 1.3.6.1.4.1.6876.0 VMWARE-ROOT-MIB vmwSystem node 1.3.6.1.4.1.6876 VMWARE-ROOT-MIB vmwVirtMachines node 1.3.6.1.4.1.6876.2 VMWARE-ROOT-MIB vmwResources node 1.3.6.1.4.1.6876.3 VMWARE-ROOT-MIB vmwProductSpecific node 1.3.6.1.4.1.6876 VMWARE-ROOT-MIB vmwLdap node 1.3.6.1.4.1.6876 VMWARE-ROOT-MIB vmwTraps node 1.3.6.1.4.1.6876 VMWARE-ROOT-MIB vmwSRM node 1.3.6.1.4.1.6876 VMWARE-ROOT-MIB vmwOID node 1.3.6.1.4.1.6876 VMWARE-ROOT-MIB vmwareAgentCapabilities node 1.3.6.1.4.1.6876.70 VMWARE-ROOT-MIB vmwExperimental node 1.3.6.1.4.1.6876.700 VMWARE-ROOT-MIB vmwDocumentation node 1.3.6.1.4.1.6876.750 VMWARE-ROOT-MIB vmwObsolete node 1.3.6.1.4.1.6876.800
- 11. MIB DOWNLOAD Download latest Management Information base (MIB) for vSphere 6.7
- 12. SNMPWALK EXAMPLE A quick way to test that everything is up and running using SNMPWALK
- 13. VSPHERE MONITORING Have a deep visibility of what is going on inside our vCenters it is Priority 1 for any IT Administrator, from CPU consumption to Datastorage usage, IOPS, VMs performance, etc.
- 14. VSPHERE MONITORING Critical resources to be monitored CPU USAGE RAM USAGE DATASTORES PER-VM STATS CPU Usage per Cluster, Host and VM. In % and MHz RAM Usage per Cluster, Host and VM. In GB Datastores Usage in % Capacity. Included as well VMFS Reads and Writes IOPS and total latency VM Usage, CPU, RAM, Disk. Including VMFS Reads and Writes IOPS and total latency
- 15. INFLUXDB, TELEGRAF, AND GRAFANA An open-source time series database where we will save the different metrics that the Telegraf agent writes on it. INFLUXDB Telegraf is a plugin-driven server agent for collecting and reporting metrics, it has different integrations out-of-the-box, and vSphere is one of it since v1.8 TELEGRAF An open-source and widely adopted Dashboarding system which represents the information stored on different datasources, InfluxDB it is one of the supported datasources for Grafana. GRAFANA
- 16. SIMPLE DIAGRAM
- 17. How to start Monitoring your Environment today? vSAN Performance Monitor OVA Created by VMware - Fling Telegraf.conf Enabling the [[inputs.vsphere]] OR COLLECTOR VISUALIZATION VIRTUAL CONFERENCE 2020
- 18. HOW TO ENABLE IT? Telegraf configuration to start ingesting information from our vSphere SDK VIRTUAL CONFERENCE 2020
- 19. HOW VCENTER STORES METRICS? Quick overview at how VMware vCenter saves information and metrics. vCenter saves metrics every 20 seconds, and it does save this information in the ESXi RAM. This is perfect to query these metrics much more often, as it is quick! • These metrics are stored for a maximum of one hour (real-time in vSphere Client) • This is limited to ESXi and VMs metrics, such as CPU, RAM, Networking, etc. vCenter saves Datastore, Cluster and Datacentre metrics in ranges of 5 minutes, 30 minutes, 2 hours, and 24 hours. This is perfect to query these metrics ever x hours • These metrics are stored in DB, and it is quite heavy to pull if frequency low • This is limited to Datastores, Datacentre and Cluster VIRTUAL CONFERENCE 2020
- 20. DEMO TIME IF YOU SEE SOMETHING YOU LIKE, OR HAVE A QUESTION DURING THE DEMO, PLEASE MAKE ME STOP AT ANY TIME
- 21. LEARN FROM THE COMMUNITY, BUILD FOR THE COMMUNITY It does not matter if it is a simple script, blog, video, whiteboarding, GitHub project, forum reply or even twitter. Jump into the #vCommunity wagon, drink from others knowledge and give it back with your knowledge in any type of shape
- 22. COMMUNITY INCEPTION TIMELINE FIRST GRAFANA BLOG June 2016 Basics about InfluxDB, Telegraf ,and Grafana stack VSPHERE MONITORING v1.0 June 2017 Using PowerShell Script from vExpert Mike Nisk (vFlush Stats Kit)
- 23. TELEGRAF NATIVE VSPHERE INPUT September 2018 Telegraf announces it’s v1.8, exciting because it does include a native vSphere Input Plugin using vSphere SDK VSPHERE MONITORING v2.0 October 2018 Leveraging this new Telegraf integration, three new Grafana Dashboards are created, and shared with the Community
- 24. BUILD FOR THE COMMUNITY Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aenean commodo ligula eget dolor. Aenean massa. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Donec quam felis, ultricies nec, pellentesque eu, pretium quis, sem. Nulla consequat massa quis enim. Donec pede justo, fringilla vel, aliquet nec, vulputate eget, arcu. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aenean commodo ligula eget dolor. Aenean massa. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Donec quam felis, ultricies nec, pellentesque eu, pretium quis, sem. Nulla consequat massa quis enim. Donec pede justo, fringilla vel, aliquet nec, vulputate eget, arcu. TAGLINE GOES HERE +5400 DOWNLOADS OF GRAFANA DASHBOARD April 2020 The VMware vSphere Overview Dashboard (ID 8159) has been downloaded now more than 5300 times.
- 25. We look forward to bringing together our community of developers in this new format to learn, interact, and share tips and use cases. 8-9 June, 2020 Hands-On Flux Training www.influxdays.com 23-24 June, 2020 Virtual Experience
- 26. THANK YOU