VMware (remote monitoring) extension

Latest Dynatrace
Extension
Published Oct 27, 2025

Monitor the health and performance of your VMware vSphere infrastructure.

VMware Overview Dashboard including entity links and counts.

VMware Overview Dashboard including metrics for the different entities.

List of ESXi Hosts with important information and metrics.

Details screen of an ESXi Hosts with metrics and related entities.

List of Datastores with important information and metrics.

Details screen of a Datastore with metrics and related entities.

List of VMs with important information and metrics.

Details screen of a VM with metrics and related entities.

1 of 8VMware Overview Dashboard including entity links and counts.

Get started

Overview

Use VMware to connect to the vCenter and gather metrics about your vSphere Clusters, ESXi Hosts, VM, Datastores, and Disks

This extension uses the pyVmomi

pyVmomi maintains minimum backward compatibility with the previous four releases of vSphere and its own previous four releases. Compatibility with much older versions may continue to work but won't be actively supported.

The VMware (remote monitoring) extension currently uses pyvmomi==8.0.3.0.1.

Use Cases

Use this extension to:

Monitor the health and performance of your VMware.
Ensure optimal splitting of resources between the virtual machines.
Detect problems and pinpoint the root cause in your virtualization and application layer.

Requirements

Active VMware vCenter
ActiveGate with EEC Performance Profile of High or Dedicated deployed on a Linux or Windows environment. For more information about the performance profiles, see Dedicated performance profile configuration.
When you use the dedicated performance profile, the REST Interface is disabled by default. In order to ingest vCenter Triggered Alarms and vCenter Custom Attributes & Tags, you need to manually turn on the REST Interface in the ActiveGate's custom.properties file by setting the following:
[collector]
restInterface = true
ActiveGate connected to the vSphere
A user with read-only permissions in vSphere

Compatibility information

pyVmomi has its own compatibility information. To learn more, see pyVmomi Compatibility Policy.

Details

Licensing and cost

This extension uses logs (for more information, see vSphere Events) and custom metrics. For more information about licensing costs, see Extending Dynatrace (Davis data units) or Metrics powered by Grail overview (DPS) depending on your license model.

If you are concerned about license usage due to the number of metrics collected and their potential cardinality in larger VMware vSphere deployments, please contact your Dynatrace account team. You can also check the FAQ.

Feature sets

When activating your extension using monitoring configuration, you can limit monitoring to one of the feature sets. To work properly the extension has to collect at least one metric after the activation.

In highly segmented networks, feature sets can reflect the segments of your environment. Then, when you create a monitoring configuration, you can select a feature set and a corresponding ActiveGate group that can connect to this particular segment.

All metrics that aren't categorized into any feature set are considered to be the default and are always reported.

A metric inherits the feature set of a subgroup, which in turn inherits the feature set of a group. Also, the feature set defined on the metric level overrides the feature set defined on the subgroup level, which in turn overrides the feature set defined on the group level.

Metric name	Metric key	Description
—	vmware.info.datastore_info	—
—	vmware.info.host_relations	—
Host Availability	vmware.host.availability	100% if Connected and Powered On, else 0%
VM Availability	vmware.vm.availability	100% if Connected and Powered On, else 0%

Metric name	Metric key	Description
Sensor State	vmware.host.sensor.state	Hardware sensor state within the ESXi Host. 0=Green 1=Gray 2=Yellow 3=Red

Metric name	Metric key	Description
Backing Device Capacity	vmware.vm.device.capacity	—
Volume Capacity	vmware.vm.volume.capacity	Total capacity of the disk, in bytes. This is part of the virtual machine configuration.
Volume Free Space	vmware.vm.volume.free_space	Free space on the disk, in bytes. This is retrieved by VMware Tools.

Metric name	Metric key	Description
Disk Highest Latency	vmware.host.disk.maxTotalLatency.latest	Highest latency value across all disks used by the host
Physical Device Read Latency	vmware.host.disk.deviceReadLatency.average	Average amount of time, in milliseconds, to read from the physical device
Physical Device Write Latency	vmware.host.disk.deviceWriteLatency.average	Average amount of time, in milliseconds, to write to the physical device
Queue Write Latency	vmware.host.disk.queueWriteLatency.average	Average amount of time spent in the VMkernel queue, per SCSI write command, during the collection interval
Total Write latency (StoragePath)	vmware.host.storagePath.totalWriteLatency.average	The average time a write issued on the storage path takes

Metric name	Metric key	Description
Number of CPU Cores	vmware.host.cpu.num_cores	—
Memory Size	vmware.host.mem.size	Total amount of physical memory on the host in bytes.
Memory Used (MB)	vmware.host.mem.used_mb	Physical memory usage on the host in MB

Metric name	Metric key	Description
Disk Highest latency	vmware.vm.disk.maxTotalLatency.latest	Highest latency value across all disks used by the host
Total Write latency	vmware.vm.disk.totalWriteLatency.average	Average amount of time taken during the collection interval to process a SCSI write command issued by the guest OS to the virtual machine
Read Requests	vmware.vm.disk.numberReadAveraged.average	Number of disk reads per second during the collection interval
Write Requests	vmware.vm.disk.numberWriteAveraged.average	Number of disk writes per second during the collection interval
Read latency	vmware.vm.disk.totalReadLatency.average	The average time a read from the virtual disk takes
Read rate	vmware.vm.disk.read.average	Average number of kilobytes read from the disk each second during the collection interval
Write rate	vmware.vm.disk.write.average	Average number of kilobytes written from the disk each second during the collection interval
Read Requests	vmware.vm.virtualDisk.numberReadAveraged.average	—
Write Requests	vmware.vm.virtualDisk.numberWriteAveraged.average	—
Read Rate	vmware.vm.virtualDisk.read.average	—
Write Rate	vmware.vm.virtualDisk.write.average	—
Read Latency	vmware.vm.virtualDisk.totalReadLatency.average	—
Write Latency	vmware.vm.virtualDisk.totalWriteLatency.average	—
Throughput Contention	vmware.vm.virtualDisk.throughput.cont.average	—

Metric name	Metric key	Description
CPU Usage	vmware.vm.cpu.usage.average	CPU usage as a percentage during the interval
CPU Ready Percent	vmware.vm.cpu.ready.percent	Time that the virtual machine was ready, but could not get scheduled to run on the physical CPU during last measurement interval
CPU Ready	vmware.vm.cpu.ready.summation	Time that the virtual machine was ready, but could not get scheduled to run on the physical CPU during last measurement interval
CPU Swap Wait	vmware.vm.cpu.swapwait.summation	CPU time spent waiting for swap-in
CPU Usage in MHz	vmware.vm.cpu.usagemhz.maximum	CPU usage in megahertz during the interval
Disk Usage	vmware.vm.disk.usage.average	Aggregated disk I/O rate. For hosts, this metric includes the rates for all virtual machines running on the host during the collection interval.
Host Consumed Memory %	vmware.vm.mem.usage.average	Percentage of host physical memory that has been consumed
Active Memory Used	vmware.vm.mem.active.average	Amount of guest physical memory that is being actively read or written by guest. Activeness is estimated by ESXi
Memory Compression Rate	vmware.vm.mem.compressionRate.average	Rate of guest physical memory page compression by ESXi
Memory Decompression Rate	vmware.vm.mem.decompressionRate.average	Rate of guest physical memory decompression
Memory Swap In Rate	vmware.vm.mem.swapinRate.average	Rate at which guest physical memory is swapped in from the swap space
Memory Swap Out Rate	vmware.vm.mem.swapoutRate.average	Rate at which guest physical memory is swapped out to the swap space
Data transmit rate	vmware.vm.net.transmitted.average	Rate at which data was transmitted during the interval
Data receive rate	vmware.vm.net.received.average	Rate at which data was received during the interval
Datastore Max Total Latency	vmware.vm.datastore.maxTotalLatency.latest	—

Metric name	Metric key	Description
System Overall Status	vmware.host.overall.status	The overall alarm status of the host. 0=Green 1=Gray 2=Yellow 3=Red
Connection Status	vmware.host.connected.status	0=Connected to the server. For ESX Server, this is always the setting. 1=The user has explicitly taken the host down. 2=Virtual Center is not receiving heartbeats from the server.
Power Status	vmware.host.powered.status	The host power state. See the description in the enums for the PowerState data object type. 0=The host is powered on. A host that is entering standby mode entering is also in this state. 1=The host was specifically put in standby mode, either explicitly by the user, or automatically by DPM. 2=The host was specifically powered off by the user through VirtualCenter. 3=The host is disconnected, or notResponding, we can't have knowledge of its power state

Metric name	Metric key	Description
Host License Expiration Time	vmware.host.license.expiration	Time until the license expires on this host

Metric name	Metric key	Description
Memory Granted (max)	vmware.host.mem.granted.maximum	Amount of host physical memory or physical memory that is mapped for a virtual machine or a host
Ballooned memory (max)	vmware.host.mem.vmmemctl.maximum	Amount of guest physical memory reclaimed from the virtual machine by the balloon driver in the guest
Memory cache consumed (max)	vmware.host.mem.llSwapUsed.maximum	Storage space consumed on the host swap cache for storing swapped guest physical memory pages
Memory Swap In (max)	vmware.host.mem.swapIn.maximum	—
Memory Swap Out (max)	vmware.host.mem.swapOut.maximum	—
Memory Consumed (Max)	vmware.host.mem.consumed.maximum	—
Memory Active (Max)	vmware.host.mem.active.maximum	—

Metric name	Metric key	Description
CPU Usage	vmware.vm.cpu.usage.maximum	CPU usage as a percentage during the interval
CPU Max Usage	vmware.vm.cpu.max_usage	Current upper-bound on CPU usage

Metric name	Metric key	Description
VM CPU Reservation	vmware.vm.reservation.cpu	—
VM Memory Reservation	vmware.vm.reservation.memory	—

Metric name	Metric key	Description
—	vmware.info.datastore_relations	—

Metric name	Metric key	Description
Memory Consumed (max) %	vmware.host.mem.usage.maximum	Percentage of host physical memory that has been consumed

Metric name	Metric key	Description
VM CPU Cores	vmware.vm.cpu.num_cores	—
VM Memory Size	vmware.vm.mem.size	—

Metric name	Metric key	Description
Memory Swap In Rate	vmware.host.mem.swapinRate.average	Rate at which guest physical memory is swapped in from the swap space
Memory Swap Out Rate	vmware.host.mem.swapoutRate.average	Rate at which guest physical memory is swapped out to the swap space
Memory Granted (avg)	vmware.host.mem.granted.average	Amount of host physical memory or physical memory that is mapped for a virtual machine or a host
Ballooned memory (avg)	vmware.host.mem.vmmemctl.average	Amount of guest physical memory reclaimed from the virtual machine by the balloon driver in the guest
Memory cache consumed (avg)	vmware.host.mem.llSwapUsed.average	Storage space consumed on the host swap cache for storing swapped guest physical memory pages
Memory Latency	vmware.host.mem.latency.average	Percentage of time the virtual machine spent waiting to swap in or decompress guest physical memory
Memory Capacity Contention	vmware.host.mem.capacity.contention.average	Percentage of time VMs are waiting to access swapped, compressed or ballooned memory

Metric name	Metric key	Description
Datastore Capacity	vmware.datastore.capacity	—
Datastore Free Space	vmware.datastore.freeSpace	—
Average Read Requests (per second)	vmware.datastore.datastore.numberReadAveraged.average	Average number of read commands issued per second to the datastore during the collection interval
Average Write Requests (per second)	vmware.datastore.datastore.numberWriteAveraged.average	Average number of write commands issued per second to the datastore during the collection interval
Read Rate	vmware.datastore.datastore.read.average	Rate of reading data from the datastore
Write Rate	vmware.datastore.datastore.write.average	Rate of writing data to the datastore
Throughput Usage	vmware.datastore.datastore.throughput.usage.average	Datastore Throughput Usage
Throughput Contention	vmware.datastore.datastore.throughput.contention.average	Datastore Throughput Contention
Datastore Uncommitted	vmware.datastore.uncommitted	—
Disk Provisioned	vmware.datastore.disk.provisioned.latest	Amount of storage set aside for use by a datastore or a virtual machine

Metric name	Metric key	Description
Guest Heartbeat Status	vmware.vm.guest.status	The guest heartbeat. The heartbeat status is classified as: 0=Green : Guest operating system is responding normally. 1=Gray : VMware Tools are not installed or not running. 2=Yellow : Intermittent heartbeat. May be due to guest load. 3=Red : No heartbeat. Guest operating system may have stopped responding.
Power Status	vmware.vm.power.status	Current power state of the virtual machine. Status Codes: 0=Powered On 1=Suspended 2=Powered Off
Fault Tolerance Status	vmware.vm.fault.tolerance.status	The fault tolerance state of the VM. 0 = Enabled, 1 = Starting, 2 = notConfigured, 3 = Running, 4 = Disabled, 5 = needSecondary
Consolation Needed	vmware.vm.consolidation.needed	Indicates whether a disk associated with the virtual machine requires consolidation. Status codes: 0=false 1=true

Metric name	Metric key	Description
Memory Granted	vmware.vm.mem.granted.maximum	Amount of host physical memory or physical memory that is mapped for a virtual machine or a host
Ballooned memory	vmware.vm.mem.vmmemctl.maximum	Amount of guest physical memory reclaimed from the virtual machine by the balloon driver in the guest
Memory Consumed	vmware.vm.mem.consumed.maximum	Amount of host physical memory consumed for backing up guest physical memory pages
Memory Consumed %	vmware.vm.mem.usage.maximum	Percentage of host physical memory that has been consumed
Memory Max Usage	vmware.vm.mem.max_usage	Current upper-bound on memory usage.

Metric name	Metric key	Description
Total CPU Processors	vmware.cluster.cpu.cores	—
Cluster CPU Capacity	vmware.cluster.cpu.capacity	—
Cluster CPU Used	vmware.cluster.cpu.used	—
Cluster Memory Capacity	vmware.cluster.mem.capacity	—
Cluster Memory Used	vmware.cluster.mem.used	—
Cluster Storage Capacity	vmware.cluster.storage.capacity	—
Cluster Storage Used	vmware.cluster.storage.used	—

Metric name	Metric key	Description
CPU Usage	vmware.host.cpu.usage.average	CPU usage as a percentage during the interval
Disk I/O Rate	vmware.host.disk.usage.average	Aggregated disk I/O rate. For hosts, this metric includes the rates for all virtual machines running on the host during the collection interval.
Disk Bus Resets	vmware.host.disk.busResets.summation.count	Number of SCSI-bus reset commands issued during the collection interval
Disk Commands	vmware.host.disk.commands.summation	Number of SCSI commands issued during the collection interval
Disk Commands Aborted	vmware.host.disk.commandsAborted.summation	Number of SCSI commands aborted during the collection interval
Queue Command Latency	vmware.host.disk.queueLatency.average	Average amount of time spent in the VMkernel queue, per SCSI command, during the collection interval
Disk Read Requests	vmware.host.disk.numberRead.summation	Number of disk reads during the collection interval
Disk Write Requests	vmware.host.disk.numberWrite.summation	Number of disk writes during the collection interval
Disk Read Rate	vmware.host.disk.read.average	Average number of kilobytes read from the disk each second during the collection interval
Disk Write Rate	vmware.host.disk.write.average	Average number of kilobytes written to disk each second during the collection interval
Read Latency	vmware.host.disk.totalReadLatency.average	Average amount of time taken during the collection interval to process a SCSI read command issued from the guest OS to the virtual machine
Write latency	vmware.host.disk.totalWriteLatency.average	Average amount of time taken during the collection interval to process a SCSI write command issued by the guest OS to the virtual machine
Memory Compression Rate	vmware.host.mem.compressionRate.average	Rate of guest physical memory page compression by ESXi
Memory Decompression Rate	vmware.host.mem.decompressionRate.average	Rate of guest physical memory decompression
Host Memory Consumed %	vmware.host.mem.usage.average	Percentage of host physical memory that has been consumed
Memory Active (Avg)	vmware.host.mem.active.average	—
Memory Consumed (Avg)	vmware.host.mem.consumed.average	—
Memory Swap In (avg)	vmware.host.mem.swapIn.average	—
Memory Swap Out (avg)	vmware.host.mem.swapOut.average	—
Network Usage	vmware.host.net.usage.average	Network utilization (combined transmit-rates and receive-rates) during the interval
Data transmit rate	vmware.host.net.transmitted.average	Rate at which data was transmitted during the interval
Data receive rate	vmware.host.net.received.average	Rate at which data was received during the interval
Data Receive Rate	vmware.host.net.bytesRx.average	Average amount of data received per second
Data Transmit Rate	vmware.host.net.bytesTx.average	Average amount of data transmitted per second
Host Network Interface Speed	vmware.host.nic.link_speed	Link Speed of Physical Network Interface Card
Received Packets Dropped	vmware.host.net.droppedRx.summation.count	Number of receives dropped
Transmitted Packets Dropped	vmware.host.net.droppedTx.summation.count	Number of transmits dropped

Metric name	Metric key	Description
CPU Capacity Contention	vmware.vm.cpu.capacity.contention.average	Percent of time the VM is unable to run because it is contending for access to the physical CPU(s)
CPU Capacity Usage	vmware.vm.cpu.capacity.usage.average	CPU usage as a percent during the interval
CPU Core Count Contention (Ready)	vmware.vm.cpu.corecount.contention.average	Time the VM vCPU is ready to run, but is unable to run due to co-scheduling constraints
CPU Idle	vmware.vm.cpu.idle.summation	Total time that the CPU spent in an idle state
CPU Co-stop	vmware.vm.cpu.costop.summation	Time the virtual machine is ready to run, but is unable to run due to co-scheduling constraints
CPU Latency	vmware.vm.cpu.latency.average	Percent of time the virtual machine is unable to run because it is contending for access to the physical CPU(s)
CPU Wait	vmware.vm.cpu.wait.summation	Total CPU time spent in wait state
CPU Demand	vmware.vm.cpu.demand.average	The amount of CPU resources a virtual machine would use if there were no CPU contention or CPU limit
Active (1 min peak)	vmware.vm.rescpu.actpk1.latest	CPU active peak over 1 minute
Running (1 min peak)	vmware.vm.rescpu.runpk1.latest	CPU running peak over 1 minute
CPU Active (1 min average)	vmware.vm.rescpu.actav1.latest	CPU Active (1 min average)
CPU Running (1 min average)	vmware.vm.rescpu.runav1.latest	CPU Running (1 min average)

Metric name	Metric key	Description
CPU Usage in MHz (max)	vmware.host.cpu.usagemhz.maximum	CPU usage in megahertz during the interval
CPU Usage (max)	vmware.host.cpu.usage.maximum	CPU usage as a percentage during the interval

Metric name	Metric key	Description
Received Packets Dropped	vmware.vm.net.droppedRx.summation.count	Number of receives dropped
Transmitted Packets Dropped	vmware.vm.net.droppedTx.summation.count	Number of transmits dropped
Network Utilization	vmware.vm.net.usage.maximum	Network utilization (combined transmit-rates and receive-rates)
Data received Rate	vmware.vm.net.bytesRx.average	Average amount of data received per second
Data Transmit Rate	vmware.vm.net.bytesTx.average	Average amount of data transmitted per second

Metric name	Metric key	Description
Current Snapshot Age	vmware.vm.current_snapshot.age	Age of the current snapshot. VMware does not recommend using a given snapshot for more than 24 to 72 hours.

Metric name	Metric key	Description
Ballooned Memory	vmware.vm.mem.ballooned	The size of the balloon driver in the VM, in MB. The host will inflate the balloon driver to reclaim physical memory from the VM. This is a sign that there is memory pressure on the host.
Compressed Memory	vmware.vm.mem.compressed	The amount of compressed memory currently consumed by VM, in Kb.
Swapped Memory	vmware.vm.mem.swapped	The portion of memory, in MB, that is granted to this VM from the host's swap space. This is a sign that there is memory pressure on the host.
Memory Capacity Contention	vmware.vm.mem.capacity.contention.average	Percentage of time VMs are waiting to access swapped, compressed or ballooned memory
Memory Latency	vmware.vm.mem.latency.average	Percentage of time the virtual machine spent waiting to swap in or decompress guest physical memory

Metric name	Metric key	Description
Command latency	vmware.host.disk.totalLatency.average	Average amount of time taken during the collection interval to process a SCSI command issued by the guest OS to the virtual machine

Metric name	Metric key	Description
CPU Capacity Contention	vmware.host.cpu.capacity.contention.average	Percent of time the VM is unable to run because it is contending for access to the physical CPU(s)
CPU Capacity Usage	vmware.host.cpu.capacity.usage.average	CPU usage as a percent during the interval
CPU Idle	vmware.host.cpu.idle.summation	Total time that the CPU spent in an idle state
CPU Co-stop	vmware.host.cpu.costop.summation	Time the virtual machine is ready to run, but is unable to run due to co-scheduling constraints
CPU Latency	vmware.host.cpu.latency.average	Percent of time the virtual machine is unable to run because it is contending for access to the physical CPU(s)
CPU Ready	vmware.host.cpu.ready.summation	Time that the virtual machine was ready, but could not get scheduled to run on the physical CPU during last measurement interval
CPU Ready Percent	vmware.host.cpu.ready.percent	Time that the virtual machine was ready, but could not get scheduled to run on the physical CPU during last measurement interval
CPU Swap Wait	vmware.host.cpu.swapwait.summation	CPU time spent waiting for swap-in
CPU Total Hz	vmware.host.cpu.total_hz	Total CPU Hz available to Host (num of CPU Cores * Hz for Each Core)
CPU Used Hz	vmware.host.cpu.used_hz	Used CPU Hz of Host
CPU Wait	vmware.host.cpu.wait.summation	Total CPU time spent in wait state
CPU Usage in MHz (avg)	vmware.host.cpu.usagemhz.average	CPU usage in megahertz during the interval
CPU Usage in MHz (min)	vmware.host.cpu.usagemhz.minimum	CPU usage in megahertz during the interval
CPU Usage (min)	vmware.host.cpu.usage.minimum	CPU usage as a percentage during the interval
Running (1 min average)	vmware.host.rescpu.runav1.latest	CPU running average over 1 minute
Running (1 min peak)	vmware.host.rescpu.runpk1.latest	CPU running average over 1 minute
Active (1 min peak)	vmware.host.rescpu.actpk1.latest	CPU active peak over 1 minute
CPU Active (1 min average)	vmware.host.rescpu.actav1.latest	CPU Active (1 min average)

Metric name	Metric key	Description
Host Disk Capacity	vmware.host.disk.capacity	—

Metric name	Metric key	Description
Network Usage (min)	vmware.host.net.usage.minimum	Network utilization (combined transmit-rates and receive-rates) during the interval
Network Usage (max)	vmware.host.net.usage.maximum	Network utilization (combined transmit-rates and receive-rates) during the interval

Metric name	Metric key	Description
Memory Consumed (min) %	vmware.host.mem.usage.minimum	Percentage of host physical memory that has been consumed
Memory Granted (min)	vmware.host.mem.granted.minimum	Amount of host physical memory or physical memory that is mapped for a virtual machine or a host
Ballooned memory (min)	vmware.host.mem.vmmemctl.minimum	Amount of guest physical memory reclaimed from the virtual machine by the balloon driver in the guest
Memory cache consumed (min)	vmware.host.mem.llSwapUsed.minimum	Storage space consumed on the host swap cache for storing swapped guest physical memory pages
Memory Swap In (min)	vmware.host.mem.swapIn.minimum	—
Memory Swap Out (min)	vmware.host.mem.swapOut.minimum	—
Memory Consumed (Min)	vmware.host.mem.consumed.minimum	—
Memory Active (Min)	vmware.host.mem.active.minimum	—

Metric name	Metric key	Description
Storage Committed	vmware.vm.storage.committed	Total storage space, in bytes, committed to this virtual machine across all datastores.
Storage Uncommitted	vmware.vm.storage.uncommitted	Additional storage space, in bytes, potentially used by this virtual machine on all datastores.
Datastore Read Latency	vmware.vm.datastore.totalReadLatency.average	—
Datastore Write Latency	vmware.vm.datastore.totalWriteLatency.average	—

FAQ

The formula for datapoints used by the extension per minute is as follows:

(7 x <number of clusters>) + (70 + (14 x <avg number of disks>) + (1 x <avg number of datastores>) + (5 x <avg number of NICs>)) * <number of hosts> + (58 + (9 x <avg number of Disks) + (3 x <avg number of datastores>) + (2 x <avg number of volumes>) + (3 x <avg number of NICs>)) * <number of VMs> + (11 x <number of datastores>)

The result can be multiplied by 0.001 to get the amount of DDUs used per Minute or by 525600 to get the amount of datapoints used per year.

The following events are included in the VMware (remote monitoring) extension:

Alarm Events:
- AlarmActionTriggeredEvent
ESXi Host Events:
- EnteredMaintenanceModeEvent
- HostCnxFailedEvent
- HostCnxFailedNoConnectionEvent
- HostCnxFailedTimeoutEvent
- HostConnectedEvent
- HostConnectionLostEvent
- HostDisconnectedEvent
- HostShutdownEvent
DRS VM Events:
- DrsVmMigratedEvent
- DrsVmPoweredOnEvent
VM Events:
- VmDisconnectedEvent
- VmGuestShutdownEvent
- VmMigratedEvent
- VmPoweredOffEvent
- VmPoweredOnEvent

Alarm events may be ingested as either logs or events. For large environments, we recommend using event-based alarms. If you're using version older than 3.14.2, log-based alarms aren't supported when lowering the Task Size parameter due to performance constraints. However, with version 3.14.2+, log-based alarms can be used with a lowered task size.

Explore in Dynatrace Hub

Monitor the health and performance of your VMware vSphere infrastructure.