Comments on: Looking for the Perfect Dashboard: InfluxDB, Telegraf and Grafana – Part XII (Native Telegraf Plugin for vSphere) https://jorgedelacruz.uk/2018/10/01/looking-for-the-perfect-dashboard-influxdb-telegraf-and-grafana-part-xii-native-telegraf-plugin-for-vsphere/ Everything about VMware, Veeam, InfluxData, Grafana, Zimbra, etc. Sat, 25 Oct 2025 19:13:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: canadian drugstore https://jorgedelacruz.uk/2018/10/01/looking-for-the-perfect-dashboard-influxdb-telegraf-and-grafana-part-xii-native-telegraf-plugin-for-vsphere/#comment-64502 Sat, 25 Oct 2025 19:13:36 +0000 https://jorgedelacruz.uk/?p=875#comment-64502 whoah this weblog is magnificent i love studying your posts. Keep up the good work! You recognize, many individuals are looking round for this information, you can help them greatly.

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]]> By: Sandro https://jorgedelacruz.uk/2018/10/01/looking-for-the-perfect-dashboard-influxdb-telegraf-and-grafana-part-xii-native-telegraf-plugin-for-vsphere/#comment-32795 Fri, 30 May 2025 19:25:43 +0000 https://jorgedelacruz.uk/?p=875#comment-32795 Hello Jorge

First of all thank you for making such a great monitoring pack for Vmware Sphere, i managed to run everything on:

Ubuntu: 24.04.2 LTS
Telegraf 1.34.4
Influxdb 2.7.11
Grafana — Also Latest version

At this moment i am running it in a test environment, as i am not very familiar with telegraf, influxdb and grafana i am trying to get used to it….before going to monitor our DHCI systems.

I have a next question: Is it possible in VM dashboard template to exclude some virtual machines? (for instance VCLS machines)….from where it can be excluded? from telegraf config? influxdb config? or maybe from Grafana directly?

As Telegraf is still cited as primary source of raw data coming from vmware vsphere i tried there changing some configs (with help of chatgpt) but no result….

]]> By: jorgeuk https://jorgedelacruz.uk/2018/10/01/looking-for-the-perfect-dashboard-influxdb-telegraf-and-grafana-part-xii-native-telegraf-plugin-for-vsphere/#comment-30886 Thu, 01 May 2025 08:50:08 +0000 https://jorgedelacruz.uk/?p=875#comment-30886 In reply to BobDodd.

Hello Bob, let me upgrade to the latest vCenter release and check mate.

]]> By: BobDodd https://jorgedelacruz.uk/2018/10/01/looking-for-the-perfect-dashboard-influxdb-telegraf-and-grafana-part-xii-native-telegraf-plugin-for-vsphere/#comment-30327 Mon, 21 Apr 2025 16:38:53 +0000 https://jorgedelacruz.uk/?p=875#comment-30327 Hello,

Using the latest version of the dashboard (v50 as of 4/20/2025), Grafana 11.6.0, Telegraf 1.34.2 (git: HEAD@552f7e20), and influxdb2-2.7.11 against a vcenter server version 8.0.3.0.0500. ESX hosts are version 7.0.3, 24585291.

Influx does not seem to have a field called totalReadLatency_average for vmware_vm_datastore referenced by the storage adapter latency panel in the VMs dashboard. I do not see a _measurement for vms that has datastore in it. Looking at the data explorer in the influxdb gui, I don’t even see a datastore measurement under “vm_”.

I’m new to influx and telegraf, so maybe I’m missing something simple.

Any ideas on what I’m missing? I don’t see any obvious errors with telegraf not getting results with a wuery, but not entirely sure what to look for either.

]]> By: seungtaek OH https://jorgedelacruz.uk/2018/10/01/looking-for-the-perfect-dashboard-influxdb-telegraf-and-grafana-part-xii-native-telegraf-plugin-for-vsphere/#comment-27377 Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:05:47 +0000 https://jorgedelacruz.uk/?p=875#comment-27377 First of all, thank you for sharing such a great dashboard. I need to add one more feature, but since I’m not very familiar with modifying queries and dashboards, I haven’t been able to implement it successfully. That’s why I’m reaching out for advice here.

Would it be possible to display the total sum of datastore usage per cluster? For example, on the second row of the dashboard you shared, uptime hours, CPU, and memory usage are displayed per cluster. I would like to add the total datastore sum per cluster next to them.

Your advice would be a great help!

]]> By: Jeff https://jorgedelacruz.uk/2018/10/01/looking-for-the-perfect-dashboard-influxdb-telegraf-and-grafana-part-xii-native-telegraf-plugin-for-vsphere/#comment-22240 Thu, 21 Nov 2024 15:34:04 +0000 https://jorgedelacruz.uk/?p=875#comment-22240 Just started using your dashboards and finally got some collections to work with telegraf. I am however running into an issue,
[inputs.vsphere] Metric name is unknown. will not be collected. I have not been successful in finding anyone else with the same error and was wondering if you had any insight.

I am also getting [inputs.vsphere] error in plugin: while collecting resourcepool: serverfaultcode: This operation is restricted by the administrator – ‘vpxd.stats.maxquerymetrics’. contact your system administrator. I just need to go back through and increase the vCenter/s just wish it would log which vCenter.

]]> By: jorgeuk https://jorgedelacruz.uk/2018/10/01/looking-for-the-perfect-dashboard-influxdb-telegraf-and-grafana-part-xii-native-telegraf-plugin-for-vsphere/#comment-14097 Tue, 18 Jun 2024 08:22:11 +0000 https://jorgedelacruz.uk/?p=875#comment-14097 In reply to Antonin.

Hello Antonin, which widget specifically, please? Thank you!

]]> By: Antonin https://jorgedelacruz.uk/2018/10/01/looking-for-the-perfect-dashboard-influxdb-telegraf-and-grafana-part-xii-native-telegraf-plugin-for-vsphere/#comment-13869 Mon, 10 Jun 2024 13:47:58 +0000 https://jorgedelacruz.uk/?p=875#comment-13869 Hello Jorge,
first of all thanks for the incredible work you do on this 🙂
Second everything is working fine but we are trying to find a way to sort the datastore usage percent in descending order (highest usage on top)
The dashboard shows valued depending on the datastore name.
I have tried various things with sort(), yield to add another field to be used for sort, adding transformation as well but I can’t find a way to do this. No matter what I do, all I get is either error or on the sort I have just the datastore name but I would like to be able to sort by value.
Antonin

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