VMware Aria Operations provides definitions for the metrics, properties, and alerts defined on objects in your environment. What to read next Metric Definitions in VMware Aria OperationsMetric definitions provide an overview of how the metric value is calculated or derived. If you understand the metric, you can better tune VMware Aria Operations to display results that help you to manage your environment. Alert Definitions in VMware Aria OperationsAlert definitions are a combination of symptoms and recommendations that identify problem areas in VMware Aria Operations and generate alerts on which you act for those areas. Property Definitions in VMware Aria OperationsProperties are attributes of objects in the VMware Aria Operations environment. You use properties in symptom definitions. You can also use properties in dashboards, views, and reports.