Watchdog Metrics

vRealize Operations collects watchdog metrics to ensure that the vRealize Operations services are running and responsive.

Watchdog Metrics

The watchdog metric provides the total service count.

Table 1. Watchdog Metrics

Metric Key	Metric Name	Description
ServiceCount	Service Count	Service Count

Service Metrics

Service metrics provide information about watchdog activity.

Table 2. Metrics for the vRealize Operations Watchdog Service

Metric Key	Metric Name	Description
Service|Enabled	Enabled	Enabled
Service|Restarts	Restarts	Number of times the process has been unresponsive and been restarted by Watchdog.
Service|Starts	Starts	Number of times the process has been revived by Watchdog.
Service|Stops	Stops	Number of times the process has been stopped by Watchdog.