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Table Of Contents
- vSphere Monitoring and Performance
- Contents
- About vSphere Monitoring and Performance
- Updated Information
- Monitoring Inventory Objects with Performance Charts
- Performance Chart Types
- Data Counters
- Metric Groups in vSphere
- Data Collection Intervals
- Data Collection Levels
- View Performance Charts
- Performance Charts Options Available Under the View Menu
- Overview Performance Charts
- Clusters
- Datacenters
- Datastores
- Disk Space (Data Counters)
- Disk Space (File Types)
- Disk Space (Virtual Machines)
- Storage I/O Control Normalized Latency
- Storage I/O Control Aggregate IOPs
- Storage I/O Control Activity
- Average Device Latency per Host
- Maximum Queue Depth per Host
- Read IOPs per Host
- Write IOPs per Host
- Average Read Latency per Virtual Machine Disk
- Average Write Latency per Virtual Machine Disk
- Read IOPs per Virtual Machine Disk
- Write IOPs per Virtual Machine Disk
- Virtual Machine Observed Latency per Datastore
- Hosts
- Resource Pools
- vApps
- Virtual Machines
- CPU (%)
- CPU Usage (MHz)
- Disk (Average)
- Disk (Rate)
- Disk (Number)
- Virtual Disk Requests (Number)
- Virtual Disk Rate (KBps)
- Memory (Usage)
- Memory (Balloon)
- Memory (Swap Rate)
- Memory (Data Counters)
- Network (Usage)
- Network (Rate)
- Network (Packets)
- Disk Space (Data Counters)
- Disk Space (Datastores)
- Disk Space (File Types)
- Fault Tolerance Performance Counters
- Working with Advanced and Custom Charts
- Troubleshoot and Enhance Performance
- Monitoring Guest Operating System Performance
- Monitoring Host Health Status
- Monitoring Events, Alarms, and Automated Actions
- View Events
- View System Logs
- Export Events Data
- View Triggered Alarms and Alarm Definitions
- Live Refresh of Recent Tasks and Alarms
- Set an Alarm
- Acknowledge Triggered Alarms
- Reset Triggered Event Alarms
- Preconfigured vSphere Alarms
- Monitoring Solutions with the vCenter Solutions Manager
- Monitoring the Health of Services and Nodes
- Performance Monitoring Utilities: resxtop and esxtop
- Using the vimtop Plug-In to Monitor the Resource Usage of Services
- Monitoring Networked Devices with SNMP and vSphere
- Using SNMP Traps with vCenter Server
- Configure SNMP for ESXi
- SNMP Diagnostics
- Monitor Guest Operating Systems with SNMP
- VMware MIB Files
- SNMPv2 Diagnostic Counters
- System Log Files
- Index
2 Click the Monitor tab, and click Events.
3 Select an event to see details.
4 (Optional) Use the filter controls above the list to filter the list.
5 (Optional) Click a column heading to sort the list.
View System Logs
vSphere records events in the vCenter Server database. System log entries include such information as who
generated the event, when the event was created, and the type of event.
Prerequisites
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Required privilege: Global.Diagnostics
Procedure
1 Select a vCenter Server instance in the vSphere Web Client navigator.
2 Click Monitor, and click System Logs.
3 From the drop-down menu, select the log.
4 (Optional) Click Show All Lines or Show Next 2000 Lines to see additional log entries.
Export Events Data
You can export all or part of the events data stored in the vCenter Server database.
Prerequisites
Required Role: Read-only
Procedure
1 Select an inventory object in the vSphere Web Client.
2 Click the Monitor tab, and click Events.
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Click the Export icon ( ).
4 In the Export Events window, specify what types of event information you want to export.
5 Click Generate CSV Report, and click Save.
6 Specify a file name and location and save the file.
View Triggered Alarms and Alarm Definitions
Triggered alarms are visible in several locations throughout the vSphere Web Client.
Procedure
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To view all triggered alarms, click All in the Alarms sidebar panel.
NOTE The list of alarms in the sidebar refreshes every 120 seconds. For information about changing the
default refresh period, see the VMware knowledge base article at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2020290.
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To view only newly triggered alarms, click New in the Alarms sidebar panel.
The sidebar panel displays the latest 30 most critical alarms.
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To view acknowledged alarms, click Acknowledged in the Alarms sidebar panel.
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