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Code sample: Collecting cluster-wide VM performance data with Python

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When discussing automation tasks with customers, one of the common questions is “How do I collect performance statistics for my VMs?” In today’s quick article we’ll introduce a brand new complete code sample by Laura Jordana, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer at Nutanix, that does exactly that.

The requirements for Laura’s script were relatively simple:

  • Gather performance statistics for all VMs running on a specified cluster
  • Be able to specify the sample period for those statistics
  • Ability to specify which metrics are collected
  • Dump the stats into a CSV file for use with common analysis apps such as Google Sheets, Microsoft Excel (etc)

Shown below is an example of the data after being imported into Excel:

Imported data example
Demo of Laura’s script being run against one of our internal clusters

As you can see, the script creates highly usable data along with in-depth logging that can be used to analyse the results at any time.

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VM performance metrics are currently exposed via the legacy Prism Element v1 REST APIs. Laura’s complete script and its documentation is available here: Custom VM Stats Report in CSV.

Related Resources

For related information on gathering performance metrics, please see the Nutanix.dev articles below:

Big thanks to Laura for publishing this code sample.

Thanks for reading and have a great day! 🙂

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