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vSphere moduleedit
This functionality is in technical preview and may be changed or removed in a future release. Elastic will work to fix any issues, but features in technical preview are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features.
The vSphere module uses the Govmomi library to collect metrics from any Vmware SDK URL (ESXi/VCenter). This library is built for and tested against ESXi and vCenter 5.5, 6.0 and 6.5.
Example configurationedit
The vSphere module supports the standard configuration options that are described in Specify which modules to run. Here is an example configuration:
metricbeat.modules: - module: vsphere metricsets: ["datastore", "host", "virtualmachine"] period: 10s hosts: ["https://localhost/sdk"] username: "user" password: "password" # If insecure is true, don't verify the server's certificate chain insecure: false # Get custom fields when using virtualmachine metric set. Default false. # get_custom_fields: false
Metricsetsedit
The following metricsets are available: