In order to capture Windows Drive and Linux Filesystem metrics, ensure your VM Guest Fileystem Metrics are Activated and have an...

I was trying to download a Report via the Aria Operations API recently and noticed a couple things I'd like to share. Let's have a look....

I'm using Aria Operations for my vSphere infrastructure and Tanzu Mission Control (TMC) for my Kubernetes infrastructure, but I'd like to...

We introduced vCenter Configuration Drift in Aria Operations 8.18 , allowing users to detect when vCenters configurations have drifted...

We've been discussing Aria Operations Diagnostics since it was introduced in 8.18, here are my previous posts. Aria Operations Diagnostics Revisited Diagnostics in Aria Operations 8.18 Overall Findings and Security Advisories give us visibility into VMSAs and CVEs (and more) Clicking VIEW DETAILS in Overall Findings will show you the details. While this is great, I'd like to export these Findings, which isn't doable today. I'm hearing this will be available in VCF Operations

We've discussed Aria Operations Super Metrics several times before, but haven't gone into details on the most commonly created Super...

Someone recently reached out asking where to find various versions for things in Aria Operations: vCenters, ESXi Hosts, VMTools, etc. So...

Diagnostics was introduced in Aria Operations 8.18, which we've discussed previously . It's garnered a lot of attention since then, was updated in the most recent Aria Operations 8.18.2 release , and deserves an update, so here goes. Let's discuss each of the 9 tiles, starting top left with Overall Findings. As the information bubble indicates: these are active findings based on properties and logs. To be a bit more specific they are based on two groups: Properties captur

We've discussed Cluster Capacity before in terms of how many more VMs will fit in a Cluster and overcommit ratios , but nothing...

The SDDC Health Management Pack gave us some visibility into vCenter Services, but it wasn't super intuitive. The VMware Infrastructure Health Management Pack gave us more, but Aria Operations Diagnostics (introduced in 8.18) is the latest evolution in monitoring vCenter Services, and it's the best yet, let's explore! If you're running Operations 8.18 or beyond, you will notice Diagnostics, which brings visibility into all sorts of different items, vCenter Services being o

Yesterday we upgraded Aria Operations to 8.18.2 , today we'll upgrade Operations for Logs to 8.18.1 , which dropped along side the...

Aria Operations 8.18.2 dropped today, addressing bugs and CVEs, here are the Release Notes , and the associated KB . Log into the...

We've blogged about VM Snapshots in Aria Operations a couple times: VM Snapshots in Aria Operations 8.18 VMware Aria Operations and VM Snapshots I've also released VM Snapshot related Dashboards, Views, and Super Metrics into my GitHub Repo . In this blog, we'll focus on the metrics being published in Operations, VM Snapshot Age, Size, Properties, and highlight a couple things that aren't super intuitive. Upon deployment, Aria Operations will present several VM Snapshot rela

Aria Operations gives us the ability to reclaim resources by exposing Powered Off VMs, Idle VMs, VM Snapshots, and Orphaned VMDKs. This...

You have a group of users you only want to see certain objects in Aria Operations, say for example a group supports everything in only...

The Aria Operations REST API surface found at /suite-api gets most of the attention, but there is another one available at /casa/api-guide.html. This is the Cluster and Slice Administration API, and while not Swagger based, it's fairly detailed. It provides a surface for API endpoints associated with the Operations Cluster itself, Status, Nodes, Management, and more. Let's explore. First, we'll authenticate using Basic Auth: We can use that accessToken in all subsequent ca

We've been discussing Operations and Operations for Logs APIs recently, but didn't touch on the Operations Bearer Token expiration, let's...

The Aria Operations API is a powerful way of interacting programatically with Operations. There are several ways to authenticate with...

The Aria Operations API gets most of the attention, but Aria Operations for Logs has a rich API surface as well, let's explore. First,...

There are some great ways to troubleshoot VM performance in Aria Operations. You can start with the Troubleshooting Workbench, search...

There are ways to get all Custom Groups, create new Custom Group definitions, modify existing Custom Group definitions, and more. But...

Aria Operations 8.18 was a big release, several new features were added, including one we haven't discusesd yet: Audit Events. Let's...

If you want to know how long a VM has been powered off, Aria Operations will tell you. Unfortunately, this is a Calculated Metric, not one that exists on the VM object types. There are times I'd like to use this metric in a View, Dashboard, Alert/Sympton, but can't. So, I started looking around and low and behold, a former VMware TAM published a video on exactly this , here's how you do it. First, initialize your Super Metric to 0, which is where we'll start. Assuming we're