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Aria Operations for Logs Export Events and Charts
We recently discussed pulling events from Operations for Logs via API , but I also discovered something in the UI people might like to...
Jun 19, 2025


Aria Operations Super Metric attaching Datastore Metrics to Clusters
I was working on an Aria Operations Dashboard focused on Cluster capacity, it looked like this. In the middle widget (the list view), I...
Jun 15, 2025


How to Make Diagnostics Visible in Aria Operations for ReadOnly Users
I was logging into Aria Operations (8.18.3 (24746341)) with my personal account and seeing this. You'll notice two blades missing on the...
Jun 14, 2025


Pull Events from the Aria Operations for Logs API
I wanted to pull events out of Aria Operations for Logs via API, so I started exploring the available endpoints. The Operations for Logs...
Jun 9, 2025


Adjusting the Report Email Header in Aria Operations
In VCF Operations you have the ability to schedule Reports and email them. They come in looking like this, with a header in bold saying...
Jun 5, 2025


Aria Operations Custom Group Custom Properties
I had a Dashboard (and View) with a list of ESXi Hosts, the parent Cluster they were in, but also wanted the name of the Custom Group...
Jun 3, 2025


Two-Phase Aria Automation 8.18.1 Deployment
When downloading the Aria Suite Lifecycle Easy Installer for Aria Automation recently I noticed Aria Automation has an OVA. I've only...
May 26, 2025


ESXi Host CPU Contention in Aria Operations
ESXi Hosts have dozen of metrics in Aria Operations, one of them is CPU Contention (%). As the hover indicates, this represents the...
May 25, 2025


Aria Operations 8.18 HF6 via Admin UI
Aria Operations 8.18 HF6 dropped yesterday, fixing a few bugs and addressing several CVEs, it was announced here . It can be applied to...
May 23, 2025


Aria Operations 8.18 HF6 Update via Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager
Aria Operations 8.18 HF6 dropped this morning, it can be applied to any 8.18.x environments. Let's download it and apply it vis Aria...
May 22, 2025


vSphere Tags on Clusters in Aria Operations
vSphere VMs have this concept of "Notes" in vCenter, which are pulled into Aria Operations quite nicely. They look like this. This works...
May 21, 2025


Adding Aria Operations and Operations for Logs into a freshly deployed Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager
Last week we deployed Aria Operations and Aria Operations for Logs stand-alone (without Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager). We also...
May 18, 2025


Fresh Deploy of Aria Automation 8.18.1
To go along with my fresh deployments of Operations and Operations for Logs, I wanted a fresh deployment of Automation, here goes. I...
May 14, 2025


Fresh Deploy of Aria Operations for Logs 8.18.3
We deployed Aria Operations earlier this week, let's now do Aria Operations for Logs! The latest version of Logs is 8.18.3 and can be...
May 11, 2025


Fresh Deploy of Aria Operations 8.18.3
It's been a while since I freshly deployed Aria Operations, so let's see what it looks like with Operations 8.18.3. For the record, I...
May 8, 2025


Aria Operations Inventory
Aria Operations Inventory got an update in 8.18 , here's what it looks like now, this screenshot is taken from 8.18.3 (24521408). Up top...
May 5, 2025


Cluster Availability % in Aria Operations
Looking to determine vSphere Cluster availability in Aria Operations? We introduced a metric called Cluster Availability (%) back in...
May 2, 2025


Creating Dell EMC PowerEdge Adapter Instances Programmatically in Aria Operations
I published a blog recently focused on creating HPE ProLiant Adapter Instances in Aria Operations. I wanted another one for Dell EMC...
May 1, 2025


vCenter Logins with Aria Operations for Logs
I wanted to track vCenter logins across my estate, so started exploring Dashboards and Queries provided by the VMware- vSphere Content...
Apr 29, 2025


Updated Script for Automated Adapter Instance Creation in Aria Operations
Last month I published a blog including a script that helped users create HPE Proliant Adapter instances. I've updated that script to...
Apr 22, 2025


Aria Operations View Customization
A teammate reached out recently asking why a View wasn't assigning colors to the metrics properly, like this. You'll notice the color...
Apr 19, 2025


Created and Deleted VMs with Aria Operations for Logs
I was trying to determine VMs built this month with Aria Operations and came up with this. Top left is a List View leveraging the "interval breakdown" and an "expression transformation. The bottom widget is another List View filtering on VMs built in the last 30 days. This isn't bad, but I'd like to get the VM creator, which isn't available as of 8.18.3. I do have a feature request open for this. If you'd like this Dashboard (and Views) you can get them here . I was also lo
Apr 18, 2025


Aria Operations Super Metrics on Properties
I wanted to attach the vSphere Distributed Port Group (DPG) vLAN ID property to the VM/s using it, so I tried creating a Super Metric for it. This is the standard way of attaching metrics/properties (not strings) from one object type to another. My Super Metric looks like this. I've defined the Super Metric on the VM object type with this formula: max({vSphere Distributed Port Group: Configuration|Policies|Security|VLAN ID, depth=1}) I've chosen the vDGP property I want,
Apr 13, 2025


Tracking adminstrator@vsphere.local Logins with Aria Operations for Logs
If you're using Aria Operations for Logs and have installed the vSphere Content Pack, you'll notice dozens of Dashboards, Queries,...
Apr 12, 2025
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