How big a vmware environment can this handle?

pryorda / vmware_exporter

VMWare vCenter Exporter for Prometheus

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How big a vmware environment can this handle? #315

Open trippinnik opened 2 years ago

trippinnik commented 2 years ago

Having trouble getting the metrics page to successfully complete. It looks as though prometheus scrape requests are triggering it to start pulling the metrics again

I've tried using VSPHERE_SPECS_SIZE with various sizes but that has not helped.

daverstam commented 2 years ago

I'm running this on a platform with approx 200+ hosts and ~ 2000vm's and it usually takes around 30s to scrape. This is the config I'm using:

default: vsphere_host: "" vsphere_user: "" vsphere_password: "***" ignore_ssl: True specs_size: 5000 fetch_custom_attributes: False fetch_tags: False fetch_alarms: True collect_only: vms: True vmguests: False datastores: True hosts: True snapshots: False

dcorneli commented 1 year ago

Yes I had to increase the scrape interval by quite a bit otherwise the scraping would take so long that the next scrape would start before the previous one was finished. This is what I'm using:

scrape_timeout: 60s scrape_interval: 180s