Use advanced charts, or create your own custom charts, to see more performance data. Advanced charts can be useful when you are aware of a problem but need more statistical data to pinpoint the source of the trouble.
Advanced charts include the following features:
- More information. Hover over a data point in a chart and details about that specific data point are displayed.
- Customizable charts. Change chart settings. To create your own charts, save custom settings.
- Export to spreadsheet.
- Save to image file or spreadsheet.
View Advanced Performance Charts in the vSphere Client
Advanced charts support data counters that are not supported in other performance charts.
Procedure
Change Advanced Chart Settings
You can customize a performance chart by specifying the objects to monitor, the counters to include, the time range, and chart type. You can customize preconfigured chart views and create chart views.
Procedure
Create a Custom Advanced Chart
You can create your own charts by saving customized chart settings. New charts are added to the View menu and will appear there only when charts for the selected object are being displayed.
Procedure
- Select an inventory object in the vSphere Client.
- Click the Monitor tab.
- Under Performance, click Advanced, and click Chart Options.
- Customize chart settings by selecting the chart metrics, counters, objects, timespan and chart type that you want to save as a view.
- Click Save Options As....
- Enter a name for your custom chart options.
- Click OK.
Results
The chart settings are saved and an entry for your chart is added to the View menu on the Advanced Performance page.
Delete a Custom Advanced Chart View
You can delete custom chart views from the vSphere Client.
Procedure
Save Chart Data to a File
You can save data from the advanced performance charts to a file in various graphic formats or in comma-separated values (CSV) format.
Procedure
- In the vSphere Client, select an inventory object.
- Click the Monitor tab, and click Performance.
- Click Advanced.
- Click the Chart Context Menu icon ().
- Choose a file type to export to and click the respective option.
Results
The file is saved to your local system in the format you specified.