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

[MohammedRahman]

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 ?

[DanielS]

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