I was looking after the different options offered by the Elastic Stack to monitor my homelab which is based of an VMWare vSphere with a dual node infrastructure and has it happen Elastic has released an integration for it.
During this article I will assume you are familiar with the concept of elastic-agent infrastructure and already have a dedicated agent deployed and register to your elastic stack.
Integration presentation
Elastic has introduced their elastic-agent which ingestion is based on integration. The goal is to have a unique and simple way to ingest data from external sources (logs, metrics…). Difference being the integration gather all the historical tasks of data parsing, dashbaord creation, maintenance and scaling.
For the case of this integration, it’s taking advantage of the govmomi library and embed it directly into it, so no requirements is needed which makes the integration installation pretty straight forward.