[Metricbeat] - vsphere module dashboards

[philippkahr]

Metricbeat Module VSPHERE

Hi,

I created some dashboards for the metricbeat vsphere module, which is divided into two separate dashboards.

1. VSphere hosts
   As VSphere has ESXi hosts running and an ESXi host is a machine that runs all VMs, there is a dashboard dedicated to seeing how well one ESXi host or the entire fleet is doing.

2. VSphere VM
   Currently I am extracting all the data from the VM dataset, which is not much, however, there is one interesting thing. I build a heatmap that shows if a virtual machine has been moved between the hosts.

I am not quite certain on how I should proceed with the dashboards, maybe someone can help me out here. I dumped the JSON which I exported with the export dashboard into a folder dashboard in the beats/metricbeat/module/vsphere/dashboards. The current VSphere module does not have a module.yml and I'm not sure if it's ok if I just create one with all the info.

I included some sample screenshots, please note that I had to add white boxes around some information since it is collected from a production cluster.

[ChrsMark]

@philippkahr awesome! You can start with opening a PR (see #14021 or #11170).

The dashboard file should be located in metricbeat/module/vsphere/_meta/kibana/7/dashboard/Metricbeat-vsphere-overview.json

The process I follow to export/import dashboards is:
(under /beats/metricbeat directory)

1. MODULE=vsphere ID=c359a6c0-4242-11e9-a1b4-79a7ae42ab61 mage exportDashboard
2. make import-dashboards

Another thing you should have in mind is the naming conventions to follow. Visualisations' names should be like VMs Per Host [Metricbeat VSphere]

Finally yes, you will need to add a module.yml.

[philippkahr]

Thanks for the instructions! :)