Sending DSM 9.0 metrics to VCF Operations - CormacHogan.com

In the DSM 9.0 Release Notes, the following item about metrics is listed in the What’s New section: You can use the VMware Data Services Manager API to publish PostgreSQL and MySQL metrics to VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 (VCF) Operations and Prometheus [..] enabling better visibility, alerting, and performance management for all databases that VMware Data Services manages. In this post, I will show how to configure DSM 9.0 to send Postgres and MySQL database metrics to VCF 9.0 Operations. While this process is rather manual in VCF 9.0, we plan to significantly improve this overall experience for users going forward.…