vmware-exporter

VMWare Exporter & Dashboard for KKP

Last modified: 2023-10-26

The chart contains the following components:

• vm-exporter helm chart, sourced from kremers/charts-vmware-exporter
• grafana dashboards, included from pryorda/vmware_exporter - dashboards

Configure KKP

Based on the documentation Customization of the Master / Seed MLA Stack - Grafana Dashboards, KKP needs the dashboards at the monitoring namespace to get used. This already configured as default for the helm chart:

vmware-exporter:
  grafana:
    configmap:
      namespace: monitoring
      name: vsphere-dashboard

Additionally, we need to configure the KKP values yaml to include the new dashboard configmap. The scraping of the vmware exporter metrics is by default already enabled. As first step we need include the authentication to the vSphere for the deployment:

# KKP values.yaml
vmware-exporter:
  vsphere:
    user: "xxx-TODO-VIEW-ONLY-USER-xxx"
    password: "xxx-TODO-PW-xxx"
    host: "xxx-TODO-VSPHERE-HOST-xxx"

After this, we need to set as final step the grafana: config

# KKP values.yaml
# ====== grafana ======
grafana:
  provisioning:
    dashboards:
      extra:
        - folder: "VMware vSphere Dashboards"
          name: "vsphere-dashboard"
          options:
            path: /grafana-dashboard-definitions/vsphere-dashboard
          org_id: 1
          type: file
  volumes:
    - name: vsphere-dashboard
      mountPath: /grafana-dashboard-definitions/vsphere-dashboard
      configMap: vsphere-dashboard

Rollout

To roll out the custom dashboard, you can just deploy the grafana and vmware-exporter helm chart

helm --namespace monitoring upgrade --install --wait --values /path/to/your/helm-values.yaml vmware-exporter /path/to/community-components/components/vmware-exporter
helm --namespace monitoring upgrade --install --wait --values /path/to/your/helm-values.yaml grafana charts/monitoring/grafana/

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Original README 👉 charts/vmware-exporter/README.md