
It's been three years since I started writing about how we can pull vSphere performance data and create our own realtime monitoring solution. In a series of blog posts I'm revisiting some of the parts, and discuss a few updates for both data pulling and visualization
Recently there was a new release of Telegraf, a monitoring agent from the guys that built InfluxDB. This new version, 1.8.0, comes with a plugin for vSphere which I'm pretty excited about! Previously I've been testing Telegraf for monitoring some Linux VMs and also my InfluxDB servers and the agent works as expected …