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 …

For those of you that have read my blog you probably know I've done a series on performance monitoring infrastructure with the help of InfluxDB. InfluxDB is a part of the TICK stack delivered by InfluxData. All components are open-sourced and available. The TICK stack consists of, Telegraf, InfluxDB, Chronograf and …

If you've followed my vSphere performance data blog series you probably have noted that I used InfluxDB as the database for storing the performance data. With over 4 months of performance data in the InfluxDB I've picked up some gotcha's along the way (there's probably more lying around which I've not come over yet). …