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vSphere Dashboard for InfluxDB v2

Provided by: Ignacio Van Droogenbroeck

This Dashboard offers you information about your vSphere host. Uptime, CPU, RAM, Graph about CPU and RAM Utilization, Network Usage, Total Disk Latency (Write and Read) and Storage Adapter Latency

Dashboard Screenshot

Quick Install

InfluxDB UI

In the InfluxDB UI, go to Settings->Templates and enter this URL: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/influxdata/community-templates/master/vsphere/vsphere.yml

Influx CLI

If you have your InfluxDB credentials configured in the CLI, you can install this template with:

influx apply -u https://raw.githubusercontent.com/influxdata/community-templates/master/vsphere/vsphere.yml

Included Resources

  • 1 Telegraf Configuration
  • 1 Dashboards: vsphere.yml
  • 1 bucket: 'vsphere'
  • 1 label: 'vsphere'

Setup Instructions

General instructions on using InfluxDB Templates can be found in the use a template document.

Telegraf Configuration requires the following environment variables

  • INFLUX_TOKEN - The token with the permissions to read Telegraf configs and write data to the telegraf bucket. You can just use your operator token to get started.
  • INFLUX_ORG - The name of your Organization.
  • INFLUX_HOST - The address of you InfluxDB
  • INFLUX_BUCKET - The name of the Bucket. If you going to use the bucket included, you need to export the variable. Ex: export INFLUX_BUCKET=vsphere

In order to use this Dashboard, you need to specify as variable the address to the vSphere (EX: https://vsphere/sdk), also, you need to provide the username and password as variable too.

Contact

Author: Ignacio Van Droogenbroeck

Email: ignacio[at]vandroogenbroeck[dot]net

Github and Gitlab user: @xe-nvdk

Influx Slack: Ignacio Van Droogenbroeck