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Monitor your vSphere workload using Grafana

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VMware vSphere is an enterprise grade virtualization platform and having a data visualization tool integrated to it is like icing on the cake. Grafana is an opensource platform that provides great support to query, visualize, alert and understand the vSphere metrics using some really cool dashboards. For this integration we will use the following Grafana vSphere dashboards: VMware vSphere Overview VMware vSphere Hosts VMware vSphere Datastore VMware vSphere VMs  A big thanks to Jorge for developing such nice dashboards to visualize the vSphere data in Grafana. Components to integrate this solution: vSphere 7.x  Docker images:  grafana (v7.5.4) influxdb (1.8.5) telegraf (1.18.1)     While preparing this integration document, dashboards were supporting only the InfluxQL as the query language. And that's the reason I have used influxdb v1.8.5. Because the latest influxdb v2.0 wont support InfluxQL instead its having Flux which is the advanced version of InfluxQL. Data Flow:   Teleg