Use VMware Infrastructure Health to monitor the health of the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) cloud account in VMware Aria Operations. You can also monitor the VCF applications along with their services.

The domains you want to monitor should have their vCenter and NSX configured in each domain. For more information, see Configuring VMware Cloud Foundation Cloud Account. All VMware Cloud Foundation domains are automatically discovered along with their connection details and the credentials of the underlying adapters for vCenter systems and NSX.

VMware Infrastructure Health collects data related to availability, services, virtual machines, certificates, passwords, and active alerts for each configured VMware Cloud Foundation cloud account and its domains. You can view this data from the Operations > VCF Appliances Health page. For more information, see the 'Monitoring VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Appliances Health' topic in the VMware Aria Operations User Guide.
Note:
For VMware Cloud Foundation version 5.2 and above, NTP and DNS metrics are collected for all applications. Connectivity metrics are also collected and can be categorized as follows:
  • API connectivity is available for vCenter and NSX applications only.
  • SSH connectivity is available for all applications except NSX.
  • API and SSH Connectivity is available for host systems which are related to VCF based vCenter systems only.

For VMware Cloud Foundation version 4.5.1 and above, certificates and password data will be collected for the SDDC Manager, vCenter, and NSX applications only. For versions below 4.5.1, no data will be displayed for certificates and passwords.

Monitoring the Management Domains

VMware Infrastructure Health will collect the following applications of the VMware Cloud Foundation management domain:
  1. VMware Aria Operations for Logs application
  2. vCenter application
  3. VMware Identity Manager application
  4. SDDC Manager application
  5. NSX application
  6. VMware vSAN application
  7. VMware Aria Automation application
  8. VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager application
  9. VMware Aria Operations application

Monitoring the Workload Domains

VMware Infrastructure Health will collect the following applications of the VMware Cloud Foundation workload domain:
  1. vCenter application
  2. NSX application
  3. VMware vSAN application