performancing monitoring of individual cpus

[mm6]

Is there any way to monitor the utilization of individual cpus in a multi-cpu vm using the vsphere API? All of the cpu metrics I have seen have been aggregate.

[lamw · Accepted solution]

Yes, when you call queryPerf as part of your query spec, you can ask for a specific instance which depending on your metric type, it can be something like the cores of a pCPU. When processing your data, you would just extract the instance string you're looking for

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