Aria Operations Tips (Shorten collection cycle, Pricing, Policies, Telegraf, Automate Maintenance mode, Super Metrics)
Although I spend endless hours testing features and perfecting day 2 operations as much as possible. I also spend some time reading what other people have written about Monitoring as well. With that being said, below are some blog post that are writing from others that I find will become useful for my readers.
Changing collecting cycle down from 5 minutes to 20 seconds
https://www.brockpeterson.com/post/aria-operations-saas-near-real-time-monitoring
Pricing VMs
https://www.brockpeterson.com/post/pricing-with-vmware-aria-operations
Policies explained
https://www.brockpeterson.com/post/vmware-aria-operations-policies
Monitoring Services and Process using Telegraf
vROPS Management Pack Builder
https://www.brockpeterson.com/post/vrops-management-pack-builder
How to automate Object Maintenance Mode
Super Metrics Creation
https://www.vmwareopsguide.com/miscellaneous/chapter-4-super-metrics/4.4.3-examples/
https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2020/09/my-top-15-vrealize-operations-super-metrics.html
Understanding Metrics
https://www.vmwareopsguide.com/metrics/
https://www.vmwareopsguide.com/downloads/vsphere-metrics/
Blue Screen of Death detection
How to detect Windows Blue Screen of Death using VMware Aria Operations
