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Vmware_exporter configuration under Prometheus system

​ started Prometheus to facilitate the management of equipment. Starting from vmware_exporter today, I started to monitor my vmware vsphere cluster.

Due to the unsuccessful compilation problem, vmware_exporter chose to use docker mode to execute. Vmware_exporter

Edit the configuration file config.yml. In order to configure the file discovery service of prometheus, delete the vsphere_hosthost in esx.

Mkdir-p / data/vmware/config.ymlvim / data/vmware/config.ymldefault: vsphere_host: "vcenter" vsphere_user: "user" vsphere_password: "password" ignore_ssl: False collect_only: vms: True vmguests: True datastores: True hosts: True snapshots: Trueesx: vsphere_user: 'root' vsphere_password:' password' ignore_ssl: True collect_only: Vms: True vmguests: True datastores: True hosts: True snapshots: True

Execute the vmware-exporter docker program.

Docker run-d-v / data/vmware:/data/-it-rm-p 9272 it 9272-- name vmware_exporter pryorda/vmware_exporter-c / data/config.yml

Compile the prometheus configuration file

Edit the esx.yml file for use by the sd_file configuration file in prometheus.

Vim / etc/prometheus/esx.yml---- targets:- 192.168.21.91-192.168.21.92-192.168.21.93-192.168.21.95-192.168.21.96labels: job: vmware_esx edits the prometheus file, where section: [ESX] corresponds to the ESX fragment in the config.yml file. Vim / etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml- job_name: 'vmware_vcenter' metrics_path:' / metrics' static_configs:-targets:-'vcenter.company.com' relabel_configs:-source_labels: [_ address__] target_label: _ _ param_target-source_labels: [_ _ param_target] target_label: instance-target_label: _ _ address_ _ replacement: localhost:9272- job_name: 'vmware_esx' metrics_path:' / metrics' file_sd_configs:-files:-/ etc/prometheus/esx.yml params: section: [esx] relabel_configs:-source_labels: [_ _ address__] target_label: _ _ param_target-source_labels: [_ param_target] target_label: Instance-target_label: _ _ address__ replacement: localhost:9272

Add Grafana monitoring and import the configuration file of granafa, which is located in the dashboard directory by default.

Import dashboard configuration Fil

Reference link:

Vmware_exporter

Finally completed a small step, but still completed, there are many problems need to be further solved, such as alarm, such as more detailed monitoring, and so on.

​ my prometheus series is gradually improving, to be continued, come on!

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