Using Prometheus+Grafana+VMware-exporter to monitor VMware EXSi Hosts and VMs

This article introduces a simple method to monitor VMware EXSi and VMs with VMware-exporter, related metrics can be pulled by Prometheus, and visualized by Grafana.

Here we use docker to run 4 containers that compose of the entire environment.

First of all, git clone the project from the URL: VMware-ESXI-Monitoring-Tools: Prometheus / Grafana / VMWare ESXi Metrics for Prometheus

then, you need to download docker: Get Docker | Docker Docs, and install the docker for providing docker environment.

Finally, run the command:

复制代码
SMTP_HELLO=[yourdomain.com] SMTP_TO=[first.last@gmail.com] SMTP_FROM=[prometheus@yourdomain.com] SMTP_SMARTHOST=smtp.gmail.com:587 SMTP_USER=[your_gmail_user@gmail.com] SMTP_PASS=[your_google_app_password]
HOST_IP=[host_ip_running_docker_compose] VSPHERE_HOST=[esxi_host_ip_or_hostname] VSPHERE_USER=[vsphere_user] VSPHERE_PASS=[vsphere_pass] ./start_containers.sh 

If there's no need to use alert function, just remove the SMTP parameters from the command.

That's it!

If you want to get metrics from multiple vCenters, you can modify ./configs/prometheus.yml.tpl to add more jobs, for example,

复制代码
- job_name: 'vmware_vcenter_0'

  ......

  static_configs:

    - targets: 

      - '{{HOST_IP}}:9272'

- job_name: 'vmware_vcenter_1'

  ......

  static_configs:

    - targets: 

      - '{{HOST_IP}}:9273'

Run docker ps to get containers, and docker compose logs to get logs.

If it's too slow to download images, you can configure Aliyun docker image mirror to speed up.

Navigate to 容器镜像服务 to get registry-mirrors

Modify daemon configuration file /etc/docker/daemon.json to use accelerator:

复制代码
sudo mkdir -p /etc/docker 

sudo tee /etc/docker/daemon.json <<-'EOF' { "registry-mirrors": ["https://{{serial number}}.mirror.aliyuncs.com"] } EOF 

sudo systemctl daemon-reload  

sudo systemctl restart docker

After all set. you can get Dashboard template from Grafana Dashboard. Searching the dashboards with filters vmware or exsi and lable of prometheus to get the one you want. Remember to configure the data source first: https://{``{host_ip}}:3000

相关推荐
川石课堂软件测试16 小时前
Oracle 数据库:视图与索引
数据库·网络协议·nginx·http·oracle·grafana·prometheus
川石课堂软件测试1 天前
Oracle 数据库如何查询列
linux·数据库·sql·功能测试·oracle·grafana·prometheus
川石课堂软件测试1 天前
Oracle 数据库使用事务确保数据的安全
数据库·python·功能测试·docker·oracle·单元测试·prometheus
文人sec4 天前
性能测试-jmeter7-元件提取器
python·jmeter·prometheus·模块测试
MasterNeverDown5 天前
.NET 微服务日志系统:Serilog + Loki + Grafana 实践指南
微服务·.net·grafana
❀͜͡傀儡师5 天前
docker安装Prometheus和Grafana 监控界面
docker·grafana·prometheus
好运连连9995 天前
ubuntu promethus+grafana监控多台服务器
linux·ubuntu·grafana
夏目&贵志6 天前
prometheus+grafana监控系统
docker·grafana·prometheus
强_子7 天前
基于 Prometheus+Alertmanager+Grafana 打造监控报警后台(四)-Grafana告警配置
服务器·grafana·prometheus
TTBIGDATA7 天前
【Ambari-Metrics监控】Grafana+Infinity快速构建DEMO-插件安装
hadoop·ambari·hdp·grafana·cdh·bigtop·ambari-metrics