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As previously mentioned I have been working a lot with VMware Cloud on AWS and one of the questions that often crops up is around an approach to monitoring.
This is an interesting topic as VMC is technicaly “as a service” therefore the monitoring approach is a bit different. Technically AWS and VMware’s SRE teams will be monitoring all of the infrastructure components,
however you still need to monitor your own Virtual Machines. If it was me I would still want some monitoring on the Infrastructure and I see two different reasons why you would want to do this:
Firstly I want to check that the VMware Cloud on AWS service is doing what I am paying for. Secondly I still need to monitor my VM’s to ensure they are all behaving properly, the added factor is that with a good realtime view of my workload I can potential optimise the number of VMC hosts in my fleet reducing the costs.
With that in mind, I decided to look at a few options for connecting some monitoring tools to a VMC enviroment to see what worked and what didn’t. I am expecting some things could behave differently as you don’t
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