Available metrics

With some groups and hosts automatically created, let's see what data they're collecting. Navigate to Monitoring | Latest data and select Hypervisors in the Host groups field. Then, click on Filter:

There'll be more items for each hypervisor. Some of them might not have data yet, but a bit of patience should reveal all of the details.

Datastore items might appear later; they're discovered by the datastore discovery LLD rule in Template VM VMware Hypervisor with a default interval of one hour.

Now, filter by hypervisor virtual machine group in the Host groups field or by a single discovered virtual machine in the Hosts field:

Again, there should be more items, and some could still be missing values. They all should eventually get populated, though.

Disks, filesystems, and interface items might appear later; they're discovered by the disk device discovery, mounted filesystem discovery, and network device discovery LLD rules in the Template VM VMware Guest template, with a default interval of one hour.

Once all of the LLD rules on the host level have run, we'll see quite a lot of items being covered by the default templates. In many cases, these templates might even be enough. Sometimes, you might want to extend them, though. The same as with other default templates, it's strongly suggested you clone the template first and then make the modifications to the new template.

But what other things could be supported besides the already included items? To see the full list of supported VMware item keys, visit the item type section in the Zabbix manual. VMware items are listed after Simple checks, and at the time of writing this, the full URL is https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/4.0/manual/config/items/itemtypes/simple_checks/vmware_keys. Why below Simple checks? That's the item type for all VMware keys. When adding new items, the type must be set to simple check. The same as other simple checks, these items are processed by the Zabbix server directly.

Many items have been added since the first implementation of VMWare monitoring in Zabbix. If you're still using the templates that came with Zabbix 3.0, it's probably a good idea to download the latest version of the templates and check out the VMWare keys available in the previous URL. Currently, discovered VMware hosts can't have other templates linked in or other item types added. It's not possible to merge VMware monitoring and other monitoring, such as a Zabbix agent, on the same host. If both virtualization and OS-level statistics are to be monitored, separate hosts must be used for that.
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