vcenter-exporter

Prometheus vcenter exporter

This is a Prometheus exporter, which collects virtual machines, performance metrics from vsphere api. The metric names, which can be defined in the config file are a construct of different fields in counterids. The name is a construction of: counterid.groupInfo.key + "." + counterid.nameInfo.key + "." + counterid.rollupType: an example:

cpu.usage.average
disk.usage.average
mem.usage.average
mem.overhead.average
mem.swapinRate.average
mem.swapoutRate.average
...

Openstack specific notes:

The metrics are only collected for vms, which are in state "poweredOn" and have an annotation field (child.summary.config.annotation), which starts with "name:" otherwise we cannot attach the openstack specific metadata to the collected metrics, which are definied in the annotation field of each vm like Openstack vm name and Openstack project id.

Installation

To build the Docker container:

docker build .

Usage

Command-line option:

NAME:
  vcenter-exporter.py - Prometheus vcenter exporter for vm metrics

USAGE:
  python vcenter-export.py
  --config, -c config.yaml