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amirsafayan
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vSphere API - Performance Monitoring Question - Should I use PerformanceManager or QuickStats to query the API?

I'm building a script to query the vSphere API for various critical performance metrics for CPU, MEM, Network and Disk performance metrics from vCenter.  

I'll then use this data to set various thresholds to generate alerts and also graph performance.

My question is - should I query the API using the PerformanceManager methods or simply grab the "quick stats" data objects?

Here is what I found in this vSphere documentation: vSphere Documentation Center

"You can obtain near real-time summary information about performance or utilization without using the PerformanceManager methods. vSphere servers maintain “quick stats” data objects for hosts (HostListSummaryQuickStats), virtual machines (VirtualMachineQuickStats), and resource pools (ResourcePoolQuickStats). For more information about these objects, see the vSphere API Reference."

It seems that the PerformanceManager method provides far more "Performance Providers" than the "quick stats" as summarized below:

PerformanceManager >> Performance Providers:

Cluster Services

    CPU

    Management Agent

    Memory

    Network

    Resource Scheduler

    Storage Capacity:

        Datastore / Virtual Machine

    Storage I/O:

        Datastore

        Disk

        Virtual Disk

        Storage Adapter

        Storage Path

    System

    Virtual Machine Operations

Quick Stats

         Hosts

         VMs

         Resource Pools

Anyone grappled with this question before?

Thank you!

Amir

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zalpan2000
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I do not know, but when it comes to performance monitoring questions really I found any reply, I have same questions you made, it is almost 3 years without reply!

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