topic Re: ESXi problems are polluting the problems app in Alerting

ESXi problems are polluting the problems app

gschramm — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 08:24:47 GMT

Hi,

we got hundreds of ESXi problems occuring every day. Via an alerting profile they are set to only create an alert when they last longer than 15min. 99% of them are closed earlier, they usually only last a few minutes.

Here is my problem:
In the problems app I see all the "problems", even the ones that never made it past the 15min. That a looooong list of "could have been become an alert" problems. The huge amount is distracting the users from the actual problems/alerts that need some following up.

Is there any way to hide the irrelevant problems any only display the useful ones?

Example from today:

Re: ESXi problems are polluting the problems app

AntonPineiro — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 08:28:15 GMT

Hi,

How is problem triggered? Anomaly detection? Custom metric event?

Best regards

Re: ESXi problems are polluting the problems app

gschramm — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 08:51:04 GMT

These are ootb event types from the classic VMWare integration. They are used in an alerting profile.

Re: ESXi problems are polluting the problems app

AntonPineiro — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 10:35:49 GMT

Hi,

You can filter before table by that alerting profile, or per problem duration.

Best regards

Re: ESXi problems are polluting the problems app

gschramm — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 10:56:25 GMT

I can do that, but I haven't found a way to persist that filter for all our users. It's annoying to always apply the filter before you start to use the app

Re: ESXi problems are polluting the problems app

AntonPineiro — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 13:36:44 GMT

Hi,

Maybe create a notebook them, with filters applied where people only need to make click.

Or a dashboard with real time data.

Best regards