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Table 1‑22. Network Metrics for Virtual Machines (Continued)
Metric Key Metric Name Description
net|received_average Data Receive Rate (KBps) Average amount of data received per
second.
net|PacketsPerSec Packets per second Number of packets transmied and
received per second.
net|usage_capacity I/O Usage Capacity IO use capacity.
net|maxObserved_KBps Max Observed Throughput (KBps) Maximum observed throughput in
kilobytes per second.
net|maxObserved_Tx_KBps Max Observed Transmied
Throughput
Max observed transmied rate of
network throughput.
net|maxObserved_Rx_KBps Max Observed Received Throughput Max observed received rate of network
throughput.
net|packetsRx_summation Packets Received Number of packets received in the
performance interval.
net|packetsTx_summation Packets Transmied Number of packets transmied in the
performance interval.
net|droppedRx_summation Received Packets Dropped Number of received packets dropped in
the performance interval.
net|dropppedTx_summation Transmied Packets Dropped Number of transmied packets
dropped in the performance interval.
net|droppedPct Packets Dropped (%) Percentage of packets dropped.
net|dropped Packets Dropped Number of packets dropped in the
performance interval.
net|broadcastTx_summation Broadcast Packets Transmied Number of broadcast packets
transmied during the sampling
interval.
net|broadcastRx_summation Broadcast Packets Received Number of broadcast packets received
during the sampling interval.
net|bytesRx_average bytes Rx (KBps) Average amount of data received per
second.
net|bytesTx_average bytes Tx (KBps) Average amount of data transmied per
second.
net|multicastRx_summation Multicast Packets Received Number of multicast packets received.
net|multicastTx_summation Multicast Packets Transmied Number of multicast packets
transmied.
net|host_transmied_average VM to Host Data Transmit Rate Average amount of data transmied per
second between VM and host.
net|host_received_average VM to Host Data Receive Rate Average amount of data received per
second between VM and host.
net|host_usage_average VM to Host Usage Rate The sum of the data transmied and
received for all the NIC instances
between VM and host.
net|host_maxObserved_Tx_KBps VM to Host Max Observed
Transmied Throughput
Max observed transmied rate of
network throughput between VM and
host.
net|host_maxObserved_Rx_KBps VM to Host Max Observed Received
Throughput
Max observed received rate of network
throughput between VM and host.
net|host_maxObserved_KBps VM to Host Max Observed
Throughput
Max observed rate of network
throughput between VM and host.
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