Actionable Alerts from the experiences of the community here

[danilansible]

Hi Guys,

I'm trying to comeup with an actionable list of alerts, like VMs inaccessible, vsan percentused are some them that came to my mind. However would like to check with the community here for any suggestions for few more and the valuable feedback please.

@rschitz @vmdude and other team, Kudos again for the new version and all the improvements/features.

Thank you

[rschitz]

Hi @danilansible and thanks for your support. You'd have to create a custom dashboard with all of those and create an alarm for each. You could also check the new "unified" grafana alarm system to create standalone alert without the need for attached graph but the alarm would only be text : https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/v8.5/alerting/unified-alerting/

[danilansible]

Thanks @rschitz

Btw Below are some of the event alerts that sound important. I couldnt find license expiry events or trigger events anywhere, any idea if those are pulled and if yes where to locate

              "target": "vi.*.vi.exec.ExEvent.*.*.com_vmware_vc_ha_VmRestartedByHAEvent",
              "target": "vi.*.vi.exec.ExEvent.*.*.*HA_Cluster*Event",
              "target": "vi.*.vi.exec.ExEvent.*.*.com_vmware_vc_HA_HostAgentErrorEvent",
              "target": "vi.*.vi.exec.ExEvent.*.*.msg*",
              "target": "vmw.*.*.*.quickstats.drs.DrsScore"
              "target": "vi.*.vi.exec.ExEvent.*.*.esx_audit_maintenancemode_*",
              "target": "vi.*.vi.esx.ExEvent.*.*.esx_audit*reason*",
              "target": "vi.*.vi.exec.ExEvent.*.*.esx_clear*restored",
              "target": "vi.*.vi.exec.ExEvent.*.*.esx_*_restored",
              "target": "vi.*.vi.exec.ExEvent.*.*.esx_problem_net_vmnic_link*",
              "target": "vi.*.vi.exec.ExEvent.*.*.Host*ion*Failed*Event",
              "target": "vi.*.vi.exec.ExEvent.*.*.HostSyncFailedEvent",
              "target": "vi.*.vi.exec.ExEvent.*.*.esx*los?",
              "target": "vi.*.vi.exec.ExEvent.*.*.esx_problem_vm_kill_unexpected_fault_failure_2",
              "target": "vi.*.vi.exec.ExEvent.*.*.HostConnectionLostEvent",
              "target": "vi.*.vi.exec.ExEvent.*.*.esx_problem_dhclient_lease_none",
              "target": "vi.*.vi.exec.ExEvent.*.*.esx_audit_account_locked",
              "target": "vsan.*.*.*.esx.*.vsan.net.port*DropsRate",
              "target": "vsan.*.*.*.esx.*.vsan.net.*PacketsLossRate",
              "target": "vsan.*.*.*.esx.*.vsan.net.tcp*ErrRate",
              "target": "vmw.*.*.*.runtime.vm.dead",
              "target": "esx.*.*.*.vm.*.fatstats.cpu_ready_summation",
              "target": "esx.*.*.*.vm.*.fatstats.netUsage",
              "target": "vi.*.vi.exec.*.*.*.VmMacConflictEvent",
              "target": "vi.*.vi.exec.ExEvent.*.*.NotEnoughResourcesToStartVmEvent",
              "target": "vmw.*.*.*.esx.*.fatstats.overallCpuUtilization",
              "target": "vmw.*.*.*.esx.*.fatstats.overallmemUtilization",
              "target": "vmw.*.*.*.vm.*.quickstats.BalloonedMemory",
              "target": "vmw.*.*.*.vm.*.quickstats.SwappedMemory",
              "target": "vi.*.vi.exec.ExEvent.*.*.com_vmware_vc_HA_InsufficientFailoverLevelEvent",
              "target": "vi.*.vi.exec.ExEvent.*.*.com_vmware_vc_HardwareSensorEvent",
              "target": "vi.*.vi.exec.ExEvent.*.*.BadUsernameSessionEvent",
              "target": "vi.*.vi.exec.ExEvent.*.*.ClusterOvercommittedEvent",
              "target": "vi.*.vi.exec.ExEvent.*.*.*Resources*Event",
              "target": "vsan.*.*.*.esx.*.vsan.disk.capacity.*.percentUsed"
              "target": "vsan.*.*.*.vsan.*.totalRecoveryETA",
              "target": "vi.*.vi.exec.*.*.*.esx_problem_vob_vsan_lsom_diskunhealthy",