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Agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics, logs, and other arbitrary data.
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vSphere input plugin CPU Temperature #11162

Open maxiride opened 2 years ago

maxiride commented 2 years ago

Feature Request

Proposal:

Expose CPU Temperature metrics of vSphere Hosts.

Current behavior:

The current input plugin (https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/release-1.22/plugins/inputs/vsphere/README.md) doesn't list the temperature as a data source.

From the documentation (https://developer.vmware.com/apis/358/doc/vim.host.NumericSensorInfo.SensorType.html) it's my understanding that this information is available.

Desired behavior:

Add the CPUs temperature data to the input plugin.

Use case:

Monitor CPU temperature for preemptive alerting when a threshold is reached or when CPU temp is higher than a set value for more than X minutes. Temperature data over time might also show bad ventilantion\cooling of the unit.

Picking up from some questions I saw in another feature request issue:

Hi, Can you provide some additional details like:

  1. example output of these values
  2. how you would like those values parsed and stored? (e.g. desired behavior)
  3. do you know if the library we use, github.com/vmware/govmomi can query those values
  1. Time series expressed in Celsius (possibly fahrenheit)
  2. Really don't know
  3. I think so as it has the enums here https://github.com/vmware/govmomi/blob/ffd45c83211eacbe546299c1595eccd9322b9e21/vim25/types/enum.go#L1909 but I don't see any endpoint for it from godoc https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/vmware/govmomi#section-readme
powersj commented 2 years ago

Thanks @maxiride for the request and for answering the questions

I believe the next steps are looking into pulling in that additional measurement and what it would take with the existing plugin

DStrand1 commented 3 weeks ago

Next steps: put up PR adding this as a new metric field

DStrand1 commented 1 week ago

@maxiride Are you able to test the artifacts in #16109 to see if this PR fixes your issue? Thanks!