I want to use VMware Aria Operations Automation Central to rightsize our VMs during maintenance windows. To make that easier, I'd like...

VMware Aria Operations for Logs (formerly vRealize Log Insight) is up and running and I've been logging in directly with the local admin...

Want to monitor a Windows Service/Process or a Linux Process? We can do it in Aria Operations with the Telegraf Agent. Assuming the...

You want to monitor websites, VMware Aria Operations (formerly vRealize Operations) can help, we'll use Telegraf Agents to do it! Telegraf Agents offer powerful functionality, giving you the ability to do many different things: Operating System Monitoring Windows Service Monitoring Application Monitoring Custom Script Monitoring Remote Checks Remote Checks allow you to remotely monitor targets via HTTP, ICMP, TCP, or UDP. This blog will focus on HTTP checks of URLs. S

In our previous post we detailed how to send VMware Aria Operations (formerly vRealize Operations) Alerts to Slack . This blog will detail how to send VMware Aria Operations for Logs (formerly vRealize Log Insight) Alerts to Slack. We can use the same Slack Webhook URL we set up previously, so this should be a bit easier. Log into Aria Operations for Logs and go to Alerts - Webhook - NEW WEBHOOK. I've given my new Webhook a name, selected Slack from the Endpoint dropdown (t

There are several different ways to send VMware Aria Operations Alerts out as notifications, we will discuss sending them to Slack here. ...

VMware Aria Operations SaaS and VMware Aria Operations for Logs SaaS Services have been activated, you've deployed Cloud Proxies (CP) for...

In a recent blog we discussed Aria Automation Approval Policies , this blog will focus on Lease Policies. Lease Policies are generally used to put an expiration on Aria Automation deployments, things like VMs and Applications. They allow you to destroy your deployments on a schedule, say after 30 days, and reclaim the resources being used for other projects. As shown above, in Aria Automation - Service Broker - Content & Policies - Policies - Definitions, you will find all P

Business Hours dropped in the July release of Aria Operations Cloud, previously known as vRealize Operations Cloud, we discussed it here ....

VMware Aria Automation, formerly known as vRealize Automation, is being used to request and subsequently build VMs. You'd like the requests to first be approved by your Server Team, how do you do it? Aria Automation Approval Policies, let's take a look! Launch Service Broker from Aria Automation and go to Content & Policies - Policies - Definitions - NEW POLICY. There are six policy types available, select Approval Policy. I've created an Approval Policy that will apply to

In 2020, VMware introduced an integration between vRealize Operations (vROps) and vRealize Network Insight (vRNI), it was called the vRNI...

So many uses cases for the vROps API, we've discussed using it to delete Adapter Instances and Manage Content, but today we'll focus on...

In June 2021 I published a blog on vROps Service Discovery , I'd like to provide an update. 8.10 is the current version of vROps, and...

Custom Groups are a powerful construct in vROps, most often used to group objects together for use within Dashboards, Reports, or Views. ...

VMware just dropped vROps 8.10 HF1, details here. Let's apply it to our vROps 8.10 deployment via vRSLCM. You can also do this via the...

For whatever reason, you're having issues deleting a vROps Adapter Instance from the UI, here's how you do it from the vROps Suite-API....

You want a view showing VMs, the ESXi Hosts they are on, the Clusters they are in, and properties and metrics for each. Yep, we can do it, and it'll end up looking something like this! When I first tried doing this, I created a View using multiple objects, thinking the relationships would be made, but they aren't. While all Objects are included, they aren't all on the same line, no relationships are being made. Parent ESXi Host and Parent Cluster are available properties on

The July 2022 drop of vROps Cloud brought all sorts of goodness: Synthetic Monitoring, Automation Central Updates, Rule-Based...

What is VMware Skyline? As indicated in this FAQ, VMware Skyline is a proactive self-service support technology available to customers...

vROps has been deployed, vRLI is up and running, let's integrate them! In vROps, to integrate with vRLI, you activate the vRLI...

In our last blog we sent vRLI Alerts to Microsoft Teams via Webhooks, in this blog we'll send vROps Alerts to Microsoft Teams the same...

Today we can send vRLI Alerts to vROps, we can generate emails on them, and there are out of the box Webhooks for Slack, Pager Duty, and...

VMware vRealize Log Insight Cloud (vRLI Cloud) was introduced back in 2020. Since then VMware has released new versions on a roughly...

VMware vRealize Log Insight (vRLI) 8.1 introduced Index Partitions with customizable retention periods, giving us the ability to put logs...