The VMware Cloud Foundation system provides built-in capabilities to help you perform effective operations monitoring, troubleshooting, performance management, infrastructure capacity planning, and compliance monitoring and auditing.
You use the built-in monitoring capabilities for these typical scenarios.
| Scenario | Examples |
|---|---|
| Are the systems online? | A host or other component shows a failed or unhealthy status. |
| Why did a storage drive fail? | Hardware-centric views spanning inventory, configuration, usage, and event history to provide for diagnosis and resolution. |
| Is the infrastructure meeting tenant service level agreements (SLAs)? | Analysis of system and device-level metrics to identify causes and resolutions. |
| At what future time will the systems get overloaded? | Trend analysis of detailed system and device-level metrics, with summarized periodic reporting. |
| What person performed which action and when? | History of secured user actions, with periodic reporting. Workflow task history of actions performed in the system. |
The monitoring capabilities involve these features:
- Tasks and subtasks
- A task is a unit of work or a series of subtasks that perform an overall goal, such as creating a workload domain.
- vRealize Log Insight instance deployed by VMware Cloud Foundation
- Use of the vRealize Log Insight instance deployed by VMware Cloud Foundation is licensed separately. When this deployed vRealize Log Insight instance is licensed for use in your environment, and enabled in SDDC Manager UI, log content for the physical resources and the VMware SDDC virtual infrastructure are sent to the vRealize Log Insight instance. As a result, when you log in to the vRealize Log Insight Web interface, you can obtain a unified view of event and syslog information to assist with troubleshooting. Data from the events and audit events raised by VMware Cloud Foundation is also sent to vRealize Log Insight. You can use the searching, query, and reporting features of vRealize Log Insight to create trend reports and auditing reports from the event history. See Using vRealize Log Insight Capabilities in Your VMware Cloud Foundation System.
