add host network metrics

[pryorda]

From @wtip on July 21, 2017 18:21

I need some host network metrics so that I can keep an eye on host level network bottlenecks.
I probably would like to see throughput for each nic and not just an aggregate host throughput which seems useless.
I was trying to figure out what the net.throughput.contention.summation metric actually reports as this might be an easier alternative.

Copied from original issue: rverchere/vmware_exporter#12

[pryorda]

@wtip is this still needed?

[wtip]

I personally don't need this because someone on my team rewrote our vmware exporter and added host network metrics so I'm not using this exporter anymore.

[adjosan]

@pryorda yes for me it's very usefull to have this metrics

• nic up/down
• network receive/send
• nic connected/disconnected/ignored

[kremers]

@wtip would be nice to have the changes upstream!

[dakar303]

@pryorda
It would be very useful to be able to pull stats from each of the connected network interfaces on an ESXi host. For example: an esxi that has different network cards for, vMotion , VM Traffic, and Management.

[pryorda]

Closing due to inactivity.

[wally007]

Is it possible to re-open this issue ? Most VMware hosts have dozens of networks interfaces and aggregated view doesnt really tell us much about the usage (for example about vMotion interface or replication interface, vSAN etc so be able to see which interface is hitting the ceiling etc ..)

[BHAARATH002]

Hi,
Is this issue still open?
Is there a solution for this?
I will be really useful for us.

[wally007]

This is not an open issue anymore and there is no solution in this repository.
I've created at fork where I've added vmnic metrics and merged few other additional metrics from similar forks.
https://github.com/db-wally007/vmware_exporter

[BHAARATH002]

Hi @wally007 ,
Thank you so much for the information.
I have tested the repo and noticed that the label is not populated under the interface. Its populated under the tags

And is there a way to get a metric of the network state?
And is there a way to capture the datastore name in vmware_host_datastore_read_average and vmware_host_datastore_write_average metrics?