Foglight for VMware 5.8.1 - User and Reference Guide

Table 259. Virtual machine metrics
Topology	Metric name	Description
host.cpus.processor	usedHz	CPU usage, as measured in hertz, during the interval
host.cpus.processor	percentSystemTime	Amount of time spent on system processes on each virtual CPU in the virtual machine
host.cpus.processor	Utilization	CPU usage as a percentage during the interval
host.cpus	usedHz	CPU usage, as measured in hertz, during the interval
host.cpus	percentSystemTime	The percent of time spent on system processes on each virtual CPU in the virtual machine
host.cpus	Utilization	CPU usage as a percentage during the interval
cpus.processor	percentReadyTime	The percent of time that the virtual machine was ready, but could not get scheduled to run on the physical CPU during last measurement interval
cpus.processor	swapWaitPercent	The percent of CPU time spent waiting for memory swap-in
cpus.processor	maxlimited	The percent of time the virtual machine is ready to run, but is not running because it has reached its maximum CPU limit setting
cpus.processor	coStopPercent	The percent of time the virtual machine is ready to run, but is unable to run due to co-scheduling constraints
cpus	percentReadyTime	The percent of time that the virtual machine was ready, but could not get scheduled to run on the physical CPU during last measurement interval
cpus	summedPercentReady	Sum of all vCPU's percentReadyTime
cpus	swapWait	CPU time spent waiting for memory swap-in
cpus	swapWaitPercent	The percent of CPU time spent waiting for memory swap-in
cpus	maxlimited	The percent of time the virtual machine is ready to run, but is not running because it has reached its maximum CPU limit setting
cpus	coStop	Time the virtual machine is ready to run, but is unable to run due to co-scheduling constraints
cpus	coStopPercent	The percent of time the virtual machine is ready to run, but is unable to run due to co-scheduling constraints
cpus	demand	The amount of CPU resources a virtual machine would use if there were no CPU contention or CPU limit
cpus	latency	Percent of time the virtual machine is unable to run because it is contending for access to the physical CPU(s)
cpus	shares	The priority of CPU resource allocation
cpus	reservation	Amount of CPU resource reserved for virtual machine
cpus	limit	Max of CPU resource can be allocated to VM due to limit setting
host.memory	consumed	Amount of host physical memory consumed by host
host.memory	utilization	Memory usage as percentage of total configured or available memory
host.memory	capacity	Amount of configured memory
memory	active	Amount of memory that is actively used, as estimated by VMkernel based on recently touched memory pages
memory	allocated	Amount of configured memory
memory	balloon	Amount of memory allocated by the virtual machine memory control driver
memory	balloonTarget	Target value set by VMkernal for the virtual machine's memory balloon size
memory	capacity	Amount of configured memory
memory	granted	Amount of host physical memory or physical memory that is mapped for a virtual machine
memory	limit	Max of physical memory can be allocated to virtual machine due to limit setting
memory	overhead	Host physical memory consumed by the virtualization infrastructure for running the virtual machine
memory	reservation	Amount of memory resource reserved for virtual machine
memory	shared	Amount of guest physical memory that is shared with other virtual machines
memory	shares	The priority of memory resource allocation
memory	swapIn	Amount swapped-in to memory from disk
memory	swapOut	Amount of memory swapped-out to disk
memory	swapped	Current amount of guest physical memory swapped out to the virtual machine swap file by the Vmkernel
memory	swapTarget	Target size for the virtual machine swap file
memory	vmSwapInRate	Rate at which memory is swapped from disk into active memory during the interval
memory	vmSwapOutRate	Rate at which memory is being swapped from active memory to disk during the current interval
host.network.interface	inboundPacketsDropped	Number of received packets dropped during the collection interval
host.network.interface	outboundPacketsDropped	Number of transmitted packets dropped during the collection interval
host.network.interface	packetsReceived	Packets received per second during the interval
host.network.interface	packetsSent	Packets transmitted per second during the interval
host.network.interface	receiveRate	Average amount of data received per second during the interval
host.network.interface	sendRate	Average amount of data transmitted per second during the interval
host.network	packetsReceived	Sum of packetsReceived of all NICs
host.network	packetsSent	Sum of packetsSent of all NICs
host.network	receiveRate	Sum of receiveRate of all NICs
host.network	sendRate	Sum of sendRate of all NICs
host.network	transferRate	Sum of transferRate of all NICs
network.interface	networkPacketLoss	percent of dropped packets
network.interface	utilization	deprecated metric
network	networkPacketLoss	average percent of dropped packets of all NICs
network	utilization	deprecated metric
host.storage.physicalDisk	bytesRead	Average bytes read from the disk each second during the collection interval.
host.storage.physicalDisk	bytesWritten	Average bytes written to disk each second during the collection interval
host.storage.physicalDisk	reads	Average number of read commands issued per second from the disk during the collection interval.
host.storage.physicalDisk	writes	Average number of write commands issued per second to the disk during the collection interval.
host.storage.logicalDisk	capacityAvailable	Percent of available capacity of the logical disk
host.storage.logicalDisk	capacityUsed	Percent of used capacity of the logical disk
host.storage.logicalDisk	spaceAvailable	Available space of the logical disk
host.storage.logicalDisk	spaceUsed	Used space of the logical disk
host.storage.logicalDisk	totalSpace	Total space of the logical disk
host.storage	diskBytesRead	Sum of bytesRead of all physical disks
host.storage	diskBytesWritten	Sum of bytesWritten of all physical disks
host.storage	diskTransferRate	Sum of transferRate of all physical disks (diskBytesRead + diskBytesWritten)
host.storage	diskReads	Sum of reads of all physical disks
host.storage	diskWrites	Sum of writes of all physical disks
host.storage	diskUtilization	Percent of used capacity of all logical disks
host.storage	spaceAvailable	Sum of spaceAvailable of all logical disks
host.storage	spaceUsed	Sum of spaceUsed of all logical disks
storage.physicalDisk	commandAbortsRate	Number of SCSI commands aborted per second during the collection interval.
storage.physicalDisk	commandsIssuedRate	Number of SCSI commands issued per second during the collection interval.
storage.physicalDisk	bytesTotal	Average bytes transfer of disk each second during the collection interval. (bytesRead + bytesWritten)
storage.datastore(VMWDatastoreUsage)	read	Average bytes read from the datastore each second during the collection interval.
storage.datastore(VMWDatastoreUsage)	write	Average bytes written to datastore each second during the collection interval
storage.datastore(VMWDatastoreUsage)	transferRate	Average transferRate of the datastore each second during the collection interval. (read + write)
storage.datastore(VMWDatastoreUsage)	readCommands	Average number of read commands issued per second from the datastore during the collection interval.
storage.datastore(VMWDatastoreUsage)	writeCommands	Average number of write commands issued per second to the datastore during the collection interval.
storage.datastore(VMWDatastoreUsage)	iops	Average number of commands issued per second to the datastore during the collection interval. (readCommands + writeCommands)
storage.datastore(VMWDatastoreUsage)	readLatency	Average amount of time for a read operation from the datastore
storage.datastore(VMWDatastoreUsage)	writeLatency	Average amount of time for a write operation to the datastore
storage.datastore(VMWDatastoreUsage)	averageLatency	Average amount of time for a I/O operation to the datastore
storage.virtualDisk	busResets	Number of SCSI-bus reset commands issued during the collection interval.
storage.virtualDisk	commandsAborted	Number of SCSI commands aborted during the collection interval.
storage.virtualDisk	iops	Average number of commands issued per second to the virtual disk during the collection interval
storage.virtualDisk	numberReadAveraged	Average number of read commands issued per second to the virtual disk during the collection interval
storage.virtualDisk	numberWriteAveraged	Average number of write commands issued per second to the virtual disk during the collection interval
storage.virtualDisk	read	Rate of reading data from the virtual disk
storage.virtualDisk	write	Rate of writing data to the virtual disk
storage.virtualDisk	throughput	Rate of data throughput of the virtual disk. (read + write)
storage.virtualDisk	totalReadLatency	Average amount of time for a read operation from the virtual disk
storage.virtualDisk	totalWriteLatency	Average amount of time for a write operation to the virtual disk
storage.virtualDisk	totalCommandLatency	Average amount of time for a I/O operation to the virtual disk
storage.virtualDisk	readLoadMetric	Storage DRS virtual disk metric for the read workload model
storage.virtualDisk	writeLoadMetric	Storage DRS virtual disk metric for the write workload model
storage.virtualDisk	readOIO	Average number of outstanding read requests to the virtual disk during the collection interval
storage.virtualDisk	writeOIO	Average number of outstanding write requests to the virtual disk during the collection interval.
storage	datastoreRead	Sum of read of all datastores
storage	datastoreWrite	Sum of write of all datastores
storage	datastoreTransferRate	Sum of transferRate of all datastores
storage	datastoreReadCommands	Sum of readCommands of all datastores
storage	datastoreWriteCommands	Sum of writeCommands of all datastores
storage	datastoreIops	Sum of iops of all datastore
storage	diskCommandAbortsRate	Sum of commandAbortsRate of all physical disks
storage	diskCommandsIssuedRate	Sum of commandsIssuedRate of all physical disks
storage	diskReadRequestsRate	Sum of reads of all physical disks
storage	diskWriteRequestsRate	Sum of writes of all physical disks
VMWVsanObject	read	Rate of reading data from the vSAN object (A virtual disk is a vSAN object)
VMWVsanObject	write	Rate of writing data from the vSAN object
VMWVsanObject	transferRate	Rate of data transferRate of the vSAN object (read + write)
VMWVsanObject	readCommands	Average number of read commands issued per second to the vSAN object during the collection interval
VMWVsanObject	writeCommands	Average number of write commands issued per second to the vSAN object during the collection interval
VMWVsanObject	iops	Average number of commands issued per second to the vSAN object during the collection interval
VMWVsanObjectContent	read	Rate of reading data from the vSAN Content(A vSAN object may store on several contents(phisical disk), depends on vSAN policy)
VMWVsanObjectContent	write	Rate of writing data from the vSAN Content
VMWVsanObjectContent	transferRate	Rate of data transferRate of the vSAN Content (read + write)
VMWVsanObjectContent	readCommands	Average number of read commands issued per second to the vSAN Content during the collection interval
VMWVsanObjectContent	writeCommands	Average number of write commands issued per second to the vSAN Content during the collection interval
VMWVsanObjectContent	iops	Average number of commands issued per second to the vSAN Content during the collection interval

ESXi host metrics

Table 260. ESXi host metrics
Topology	Metric name	Description
host.cpus.processor	usedHz	CPU usage, as measured in hertz, during the interval
host.cpus.processor	Utilization	CPU usage as a percentage during the interval
host.cpus	usedHz	CPU usage, as measured in hertz, during the interval
host.cpus	Utilization	CPU usage as a percentage during the interval
host.cpus	totalHz	Total amount of CPU resources is equal to the frequency of the processors multiplied by the number of cores.
cpus	percentReadyTime	average of averages from child VM percentReadyTime
cpus	demand	The amount of CPU resources a virtual machine would use if there were no CPU contention or CPU limit
host.memory	consumed	Amount of host physical memory consumed by host
host.memory	utilization	Memory usage as percentage of total configured or available memory
host.memory	capacity	Amount of configured memory
memory	active	Amount of memory that is actively used, as estimated by VMkernel based on recently touched memory pages
memory	balloon	Amount of memory allocated by the virtual machine memory control driver
memory	capacity	Amount of configured memory
memory	consumed	Amount of host physical memory consumed by a virtual machine
memory	granted	Amount of host physical memory or physical memory that is mapped for a virtual machine
memory	heap	VMkernel virtual address space dedicated to VMkernel main heap and related data
memory	heapFree	Free address space in the VMkernel main heap.Varies based on number of physical devices and configuration options
memory	overhead	Host physical memory consumed by the virtualization infrastructure for running the virtual machine
memory	reservedCapacity	Total amount of memory reservation used by powered-on virtual machines and vSphere services on the host
memory	serverSwapInRate	Rate at which memory is swapped from disk into active memory during the interval
memory	serverSwapOutRate	Rate at which memory is being swapped from active memory to disk during the current interval
memory	sharedCommon	Amount of machine memory that is shared by all powered-on virtual machines and vSphere services on the host
memory	shared	Sum of all shared metrics for all powered-on virtual machines, plus amount for vSphere services on the host
memory	swapIn	Sum of swapin values for all powered-on virtual machines on the host.
memory	swapOut	Sum of swapout metrics from all powered-on virtual machines on the host.
memory	swapUsed	Current amount of guest physical memory swapped out to the virtual machine swap file by the Vmkernel
memory	unreserved	Amount of memory that is unreserved
memory	vmKernel	Amount of memory used by vmKernel
memory	zero	Memory that contains 0s only.Included in shared amount, Host: Sum of zero metrics for all powered-on virtual machines, plus vSphere services on the host.
host.network.interface	packetsReceived	Packets received per second during the interval.
host.network.interface	packetsSent	Packets transmitted per second during the interval.
host.network.interface	receiveRate	Average amount of data received per second during the interval.
host.network.interface	sendRate	Average amount of data transmitted per second during the interval.
host.network.interface	bandwidth	bandwidth of the NIC
host.network.interface	inboundPacketsDropped	Number of received packets dropped during the collection interval.
host.network.interface	outboundPacketsDropped	Number of transmitted packets dropped during the collection interval.
host.network	packetsReceived	Sum of packetsReceived of all NICs
host.network	packetsSent	Sum of packetsSent of all NICs
host.network	receiveRate	Sum of receiveRate of all NICs
host.network	sendRate	Sum of endRate of all NICs
host.network	transferRate	Sum of transferRate of all NICs
network.interface	ftusage	Average pNic I/O rate for FT
network.interface	hbrusage	Average pNic I/O rate for HBR
network.interface	iscsiusage	Average pNic I/O rate for iSCSI
network.interface	nfsusage	Average pNic I/O rate for NFS
network.interface	usage	The current network usage for the NIC
network.interface	utilization	The current network percent usage for the NIC
network.interface	vmotionusage	Average pNic I/O rate for vMotion
network.interface	vmusage	Average pNic I/O rate for VMs
network.switch	ftTrafficUtilization	FT traffic utlization for the vSwitch
network.switch	hbrTrafficUtilization	HBR traffic utlization for the vSwitch
network.switch	iscsiTrafficUtilization	iSCSI traffic utlization for the vSwitch
network.switch	networkPacketLoss	Percent of packet loss for the vSwitch
network.switch	networkThroughput	Throughput for the vSwitch
network.switch	networkUtilization	bandwidth Utilization for the vSwitch
network.switch	nfsTrafficUtilization	NFS traffic utlization for the vSwitch
network.switch	sumThroughput	ftusage + hbrusage + iscsiusage + nfsusage + vmotionusage + vmusage of All attached NICs
network.switch	vmotionTrafficUtilization	vMotion traffic utlization for the vSwitch
network.switch	vmTrafficUtilization	VMs traffic utlization for the vSwitch
network	bandwidth	bandwidth of all available pNICs on the host
host.storage.physicalDisk	bytesRead	Average number of bytes read from the disk each second during the collection interval.
host.storage.physicalDisk	bytesWritten	Average number of bytes written to disk each second during the collection interval
host.storage.physicalDisk	reads	Average number of read commands issued per second from the disk during the collection interval.
host.storage.physicalDisk	writes	Average number of write commands issued per second to the disk during the collection interval.
host.storage	diskBytesRead	Sum of bytesRead of all physical disks
host.storage	diskBytesWritten	Sum of bytesWritten of all physical disks
host.storage	diskTransferRate	Sum of transferRate of all physical disks (diskBytesRead + diskBytesWritten)
host.storage	diskReads	Sum of reads of all physical disks
host.storage	diskWrites	Sum of writes of all physical disks
storage.physicalDisk	commandAbortsRate	Number of SCSI commands aborted per second during the collection interval.
storage.physicalDisk	commandsIssuedRate	Number of SCSI commands issued per second during the collection interval.
storage.physicalDisk	deviceReadLatency	Average amount of time, in milliseconds, to read from the physical device
storage.physicalDisk	kernelReadLatency	Average amount of time, in milliseconds, spent by VMkernel to process each SCSI read command
storage.physicalDisk	totalReadLatency	Average amount of time taken during the collection interval to process a SCSI read command issued from the guest OS to the virtual machine
storage.physicalDisk	queueReadLatency	Average amount of time spent in the VMkernel queue, per SCSI read command, during the collection interval
storage.physicalDisk	deviceWriteLatency	Average amount of time, in milliseconds, to write to the physical device
storage.physicalDisk	kernelWriteLatency	Average amount of time, in milliseconds, spent by VMkernel to process each SCSI write command
storage.physicalDisk	totalWriteLatency	Average amount of time taken during the collection interval to process a SCSI write command issued by the guest OS to the virtual machine
storage.physicalDisk	queueWriteLatency	Average amount of time spent in the VMkernel queue, per SCSI write command, during the collection interval
storage.physicalDisk	deviceCommandLatency	Average amount of time taken during the collection interval to process a SCSI write command issued by the guest OS to the virtual machine
storage.physicalDisk	kernelCommandLatency	Average amount of time, in milliseconds, spent by VMkernel to process each SCSI command
storage.physicalDisk	totalCommandLatency	Average amount of time taken during the collection interval to process a SCSI command issued by the guest OS to the virtual machine
storage.physicalDisk	queueCommandLatency	Average amount of time spent in the VMkernel queue, per SCSI command, during the collection interval.
storage.physicalDisk	bytesTotal	Average bytes transfer of disk each second during the collection interval. (bytesRead + bytesWritten)
storage.storageAdapter(VMWESXStorageAdapter)	read	Rate of reading data by the storage adapter
storage.storageAdapter(VMWESXStorageAdapter)	write	Rate of writing data by the storage adapter
storage.storageAdapter(VMWESXStorageAdapter)	readCommands	Average number of read commands issued per second by the storage adapter during the collection interval
storage.storageAdapter(VMWESXStorageAdapter)	writeCommands	Average number of write commands issued per second by the storage adapter during the collection interval
storage.storageAdapter(VMWESXStorageAdapter)	totalCommands	Average number of commands issued per second by the storage adapter during the collection interval
storage.storageAdapter(VMWESXStorageAdapter)	readLatency	Average amount of time for a read operation by the storage adapter.
storage.storageAdapter(VMWESXStorageAdapter)	writeLatency	Average amount of time for a write operation by the storage adapter.
storage.datastore(VMWDatastoreUsage)	read	Average bytes read from the datastore each second during the collection interval.
storage.datastore(VMWDatastoreUsage)	write	Average bytes written to datastore each second during the collection interval
storage.datastore(VMWDatastoreUsage)	transferRate	Average bytes transferRate of datastore each second during the collection interval (read + write)
storage.datastore(VMWDatastoreUsage)	readCommands	Average number of read commands issued per second from the datastore during the collection interval.
storage.datastore(VMWDatastoreUsage)	writeCommands	Average number of write commands issued per second to the datastore during the collection interval.
storage.datastore(VMWDatastoreUsage)	datastoreIops	Average number of commands issued per second to the datastore during the collection interval.
storage.datastore(VMWDatastoreUsage)	readLatency	Average amount of time for a read operation from the datastore
storage.datastore(VMWDatastoreUsage)	writeLatency	Average amount of time for a write operation to the datastore
storage.datastore(VMWDatastoreUsage)	averageLatency	Average amount of time for a I/O operation to the datastore
storage.datastore(VMWDatastoreUsage)	iops	Average number of write commands issued per second to the datastore during the collection interval.
storage.datastore(VMWDatastoreUsage)	datastoreMaxQueueDepth	The maximum number of I/Os that can be outstanding at a given time
storage	datastoreIops	Sum of iops of all datastores
storage	datastoreRead	Sum of read of all datastores
storage	datastoreReadCommands	Sum of readCommands of all datastores
storage	datastoreTransferRate	Sum of transferRate of all datastores
storage	datastoreWrite	Sum of write of all datastores
storage	datastoreWriteCommands	Sum of writeCommands of all datastore
storage	diskCommandAbortsRate	Sum of commandAbortsRate of all physical disks
storage	diskCommandsIssuedRate	Sum of commandsIssuedRate of all physical disks
storage	diskReadRequestsRate	Sum of reads of all physical disks
storage	diskWriteRequestsRate	Sum of writes of all physical disks
VMWVsanDisk	spaceReserved	Reserved space of the vSAN disk
VMWVsanDisk	spaceUsed	Used space of the vSAN disk
VMWVsanDisk	totalSpace	Total space of the vSAN disk

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Appendix: Alarm Messages

Appendix: Metrics

Virtual machine metrics

ESXi host metrics