vStats APIs

The AcqSpecs service provides operations to perform acquisition specification related operations. An acquisition specification defines the statistical data that should be collected at desired sampling rates from the underlying providers. It designates the resources and their counters which should be sampled, and a desired sampling rate. Warning: This service is available as Technology Preview. These are early access APIs provided to test, automate and provide feedback on the feature. Since this can change based on feedback, VMware does not guarantee backwards compatibility and recommends against using them in production environments. Some Technology Preview APIs might only be applicable to specific environments.

The CounterMetadata service provides access to the different historical editions of counters. As computing platforms evolve over time the measurement units for different characteristics of the systems change. As such changes occur, counters will receive different editions reflected in a new metadata record. For example computer memory had changes from kilobytes through megabytes into gigabytes. Warning: This service is available as Technology Preview. These are early access APIs provided to test, automate and provide feedback on the feature. Since this can change based on feedback, VMware does not guarantee backwards compatibility and recommends against using them in production environments. Some Technology Preview APIs might only be applicable to specific environments.

The CounterSets service provides operations for accessing groupings of counters. Counter-sets allow consumers to use groups of counters. The counters may relate to different resource types. When an AcqSpecs record refers to a counter-set, only the relevant counters apply. Warning: This service is available as Technology Preview. These are early access APIs provided to test, automate and provide feedback on the feature. Since this can change based on feedback, VMware does not guarantee backwards compatibility and recommends against using them in production environments. Some Technology Preview APIs might only be applicable to specific environments.

The Counters service provides operations to perform various Counter related operations. Counter is derived from metric. It applies the metric to a particular class of a resource. Warning: This service is available as Technology Preview. These are early access APIs provided to test, automate and provide feedback on the feature. Since this can change based on feedback, VMware does not guarantee backwards compatibility and recommends against using them in production environments. Some Technology Preview APIs might only be applicable to specific environments.

The Data service provides operations to query measurement and statistic data. Warning: This service is available as Technology Preview. These are early access APIs provided to test, automate and provide feedback on the feature. Since this can change based on feedback, VMware does not guarantee backwards compatibility and recommends against using them in production environments. Some Technology Preview APIs might only be applicable to specific environments.

The Metrics service provides operation to list metrics. A metric is a fundamental concept. It means a measurable aspect or property. For instance, temperature, count, velocity, data size, bandwidth. Warning: This service is available as Technology Preview. These are early access APIs provided to test, automate and provide feedback on the feature. Since this can change based on feedback, VMware does not guarantee backwards compatibility and recommends against using them in production environments. Some Technology Preview APIs might only be applicable to specific environments.

The Providers service manages list of statistical data provider services that are currently used. Warning: This service is available as Technology Preview. These are early access APIs provided to test, automate and provide feedback on the feature. Since this can change based on feedback, VMware does not guarantee backwards compatibility and recommends against using them in production environments. Some Technology Preview APIs might only be applicable to specific environments.

The ResourceAddressSchemas service manages inventory of resource addressing schemas used by Counters. Each schema consists of a named list of resource identifiers of specific resource type. Warning: This service is available as Technology Preview. These are early access APIs provided to test, automate and provide feedback on the feature. Since this can change based on feedback, VMware does not guarantee backwards compatibility and recommends against using them in production environments. Some Technology Preview APIs might only be applicable to specific environments.

The ResourceAddresses service provides operations to perform resource addressing queries. Warning: This service is available as Technology Preview. These are early access APIs provided to test, automate and provide feedback on the feature. Since this can change based on feedback, VMware does not guarantee backwards compatibility and recommends against using them in production environments. Some Technology Preview APIs might only be applicable to specific environments.

The ResourceTypes service provides list of resource types. Resource refers to any item or concept that could have measurable properties. It is a prerequisite that a resource can be identified. Example resource types are virtual machine, virtual disk etc. . Warning: This service is available as Technology Preview. These are early access APIs provided to test, automate and provide feedback on the feature. Since this can change based on feedback, VMware does not guarantee backwards compatibility and recommends against using them in production environments. Some Technology Preview APIs might only be applicable to specific environments.