Day 21: VMware Monitoring

30 Days of FrameFlow

Time to Read: 5 Minutes

Monitoring VMware with FrameFlow

FrameFlow offers 5 event monitors that are specialized to help monitor your VMware VMs. From VMware host health to snapshot monitoring, FrameFlow has a tool for your VMware monitoring needs. Today, we'll explore each of our VMware event monitors briefly. For more details, visit our Technical Resources section.

Bandwidth, Disk, and CPU Monitoring

FrameFlow watches three key metrics for your VMware virtual machines: bandwidth, CPU usage, and disk space. FrameFlow can detect incoming, outgoing, and total bandwidth and offers options to alert if any exceed specified values. We can also measure and alert about both CPU usage and CPU readiness with the VMware CPU Usage Event Monitor. Our VMware Disk Event Monitor alerts about changes in disk space and remaining disk space for all your VMs.

Together, these event monitors help ensure the health of your VMware systems. The following two event monitors cover more advanced VMware monitoring.

VMware Host Health Event Monitor

Our VMware Host Health Event Monitor watches key health metrics for your VMware hosts specifically. This event monitor will alert you about metrics like CPU usage, readiness, and ready time; disk space, memory, bandwidth, ping response times, and more. Use it to keep an eye on the all-around health of your VMware hosts.

VMware Snapshot Event Monitor

The VMware VMs Snapshot Event Monitor keeps track of the snapshot space used by guests. It alerts you if snapshots take up more than a specified amount of disk space and lets you know if the snapshots are older than a specified age. This helps you weed out old snapshots that are no longer of use and keep an eye on the overall size of your snapshots.

Summary

Now that you know about the VMware monitoring tools FrameFlow has to offer, we encourage you to explore these and other event monitors to create a configuration that works best for your organization. If you need further information on any of these event monitors, check out our Event Monitor Reference Library and scroll to the VMware monitoring section. Tomorrow, we'll learn about device types, so stay tuned!

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