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title: "Top Noisy vSphere Rules and Monitors"
description: "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."
canonical: "https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/mp/reports/top_troubles_vmware.html"
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dateModified: "2026-09-10"
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# 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](veeam_alert_statistics_report.md) 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:

<table style="width:100%;" class="Blue_Table">
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <th style="width:20%;">
      <p style="text-align:left;"> Column </p>
    </th>
    <th>
      <p style="text-align:left;"> Description </p>
    </th>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="width:20%;">
      <p> Management Pack </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p> Management pack from which alerts originate. </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="width:20%;">
      <p> Monitor/Rule </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p> Name of a monitor or rule that triggered alerts. </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="width:20%;">
      <p> Alert </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p> Name of the alert. </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="width:20%;">
      <p> Count </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p> Number of times the alert was raised during the reporting period. </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="width:20%;">
      <p> % of Total </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p> Alert share for all datastores (relative to all alerts included into the report). </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="width:20%;">
      <p> Top Level Entity </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p> Name of the datastore that caused alerts. </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="width:20%;">
      <p> Path </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p> Path to the datastore that caused alerts. </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="width:20%;">
      <p> Source </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p> Name of the datastore that caused alerts. </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="width:20%;">
      <p> Count </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p> Number of alerts raised for the datastore during the selected period. </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="width:20%;">
      <p> % of Total </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p> Alert share, relative to all alerts triggered for the specific datastore and included into the report. </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

You can click a number in the **Count** column of the output table to drill down to the [Veeam Alert History Report](veeam_alert_history_report.md) .