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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
3 Enter the conditions you want included in the filter.
4 Type a filter name.
5 Click Save to save the filter.
The filter is saved on the vSphere Web Client server and is available the next time you start the
vSphere Web Client.
6 Click Filter to view the results in the Log Browser.
What to do next
You can load saved filters from your local system by clicking Save to local system. The filters are saved in
XML format. You can also load filters from an XML file from your local system by clicking Load from local
system.
Adjust Log Times
You might want to adjust the times in the log files to a different time zone or to compare multiple log files.
Procedure
1 Navigate to the Log Browser and retrieve a log file from an object.
2 In the Actions menu, select Adjust by Time.
3 Select Add or Subtract and adjust the days, hours, minutes, seconds, or milliseconds from the original
time stamps in the log.
The adjusted time stamp appears.
4 (Optional) Click Reset to adjust the time stamp back to the original times.
5 Click Apply.
The log browser displays the log entries with the adjusted times.
Export Logs from the Log Browser
You can export log files using the Log Browser.
Procedure
1 Navigate to the Log Browser and select an object to browse.
2 Select Action > Export.
3 Select the type of file that you want to export.
Selecting the log file bundle downloads a potentially large file.
4 Click Export.
After a few seconds a new web browser displays.
5 Enter the location where you want to save the file.
The log file is downloaded to your local machine and you can close the new browser window.
Compare Log Files
You can open multiple windows in the Log Browser to compare log files.
Procedure
1 Navigate to the Log Browser and retrieve a log file from an object.
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