Implement alerting for power, cooling, and RAID failures on ESX hosts

MohammedRahman — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:40:33 GMT

Hey,

I have enabled VMWARE Integration in our tenant.

I would like to Implement alerting for power, cooling, and RAID failures on ESX hosts, how to do that ?

I see very limited metrics for esxi hosts with native integration and also explored metrics of VMWARE remote monitoring extension, but I could only find vmware.vm.power.status metric which tells the power status.

How can we implement this ? any thoughts ?

Re: Implement alerting for power, cooling, and RAID failures on ESX hosts

DanielS — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 23:53:31 GMT

Hello @MohammedRahman
You can use different approaches:

OneAgent Metric Ingestion (Recommended)

The simplest approach if OneAgent is deployed on your VMware hosts.

Local HTTP Endpoint

Push custom metrics directly from the host using the OneAgent ingestion endpoint:

http://localhost:14499/metrics/ingest Payload vmware.cooling.usage,dt.entity.host=HOST-XXXXXXXX gauge,85.3

Use a declarative YAML-based extension to pull additional VMware metrics via VMware APIs (e.g., vSphere SDK).
Metrics API v2 (Remote Ingestion)
If OneAgent is not on the host, push metrics remotely via the REST API:

POST https://{your-environment}.live.dynatrace.com/api/v2/metrics/ingest

OpenTelemetry
Collect VMware metrics using an OpenTelemetry Collector with a VMware receiver and forward to Dynatrace via OTLP:
- Use the vmware/vsphere receiver in the OTel Collector
- Send to Dynatrace using the otlphttp exporter pointing to your environment's OTLP endpoint

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Implement alerting for power, cooling, and RAID failures on ESX hosts

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Local HTTP Endpoint

Metrics API v2 (Remote Ingestion)

OpenTelemetry