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.

By default it enables the metricsets datastore, host and virtualmachine.

Dashboardedit

The vsphere module comes with a predefined dashboard. For example:

Example configuration

The vSphere module supports the standard configuration options that are described in Modules. Here is an example configuration:

metricbeat.modules:
- module: vsphere
  enabled: true
  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

Metricsets

The following metricsets are available: