topic Re: Vmware virtual machines agentless monitoring in Alerting

VMware virtual machines agentless monitoring

a_chiaravalle — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 11:17:40 GMT

Hi team

We are monitoring vsphere configuring Dynatrace to connect to Vcenters and collect data about ESXi hosts and VMs.

My question is about the Virtual Machine monitoring, I would know if without oneagent on the VM and just using the agentless monitoring, is it possible to have an alert when the CPU usage of the VM exceed a threshold.

Kind regards

Antonello

Re: Vmware virtual machines agentless monitoring

Kor01 — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 18:30:16 GMT

Yes, you can get some CPU, memory, storage, and network alerting just from the VMWare extension. This is configurable in Settings > Anomaly detection > VMWare.

Re: Vmware virtual machines agentless monitoring

cv_dewr — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 22:49:15 GMT

extending Kor01's reply which applies globally to all VMs, you can create metric anomaly detection rules and be more descriptive over which VM's the rules can apply to, taking into account other properties of the VMs (tags, names, etc.)

Re: Vmware virtual machines agentless monitoring

a_chiaravalle — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 08:49:52 GMT

Thanks for your reply.

Antonello

Re: Vmware virtual machines agentless monitoring

nelcaps — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:33:15 GMT

What about Hypervisor/ESXi Host and Virtual Machine (or Guest) Per Cent Memory utilization using simply the Classic vMware monitoring? How do I alert on that? The metric keys only mention:

builtin:cloud.vmware.hypervisor.mem.consumed

builtin:cloud.vmware.vm.mem.consumed

How do we find out the amount of MEMORY allocated to the ESXi/Hypervior host and the VM/Guest so a Metric Query can be defined to calculate %Memory Utilization???