Top Noisy vSphere Rules and Monitors

The report analyzes the alerting activity and provides information on the most frequent alerts that occur in the virtual infrastructure across a given time range.

Description

The Top Noisy vSphere Rules and Monitors report is a linked report that is based on the Veeam Alert Statistics Report from the Veeam Report Library. The report can provide statistics for only one time interval and predefined object class.

Parameters

Date/time Selection: defines the time period to analyze in the report.

Object Type: defines the class of virtual infrastructure objects to include in the report (VMware Cluster, VMware Datstore, VMware Virtual Machine or VMware vSphere Host).

Count: defines the maximum number of virtual infrastructure objects to display in the report output. The value can range between 1 and 200.

Sample Usage

Report on 10 most frequent alerts that were triggered for VMware datastores and datastore clusters during this week.

Instructions

  1. Open the Top Noisy vSphere Rules and Monitors report.
  2. From the From list, select This Week > Monday. From the To list, select This Week > Friday.
  3. From the Object Type list, select VMware Datastore.
  4. In the Count field, enter 10.
  5. Click Run to view the report.

Report Output

The report will show statistics for top 10 datastore-related alerts that occurred most frequently during this week:

Column

Description

Management Pack

Management pack from which alerts originate.

Monitor/Rule

Name of a monitor or rule that triggered alerts.

Alert

Name of the alert.

Count

Number of times the alert was raised during the reporting period.

% of Total

Alert share for all datastores (relative to all alerts included into the report).

Top Level Entity

Name of the datastore that caused alerts.

Path

Path to the datastore that caused alerts.

Source

Name of the datastore that caused alerts.

Count

Number of alerts raised for the datastore during the selected period.

% of Total

Alert share, relative to all alerts triggered for the specific datastore and included into the report.

You can click a number in the Count column of the output table to drill down to the Veeam Alert History Report.