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Status Planned for future release
Workspace IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 13, 2023

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Monitoring FlashSystem / Spectrum Virtualize with Prometheus and Grafana

An increasing number of our clients is using Prometheus and Grafana to monitor their infrastructure. For Spectrum Virtualize-based storage only the following exporter is available on GitHub:

https://github.com/IBM/spectrum-virtualize-exporter

There is also a 3rd party exporter for Spectrum Control which is not supported by IBM and was last updated in July 2020 (https://github.com/topine/ibm-spectrum-exporter). Clients don't want to rely on this in production. Compared to competition (e.g. NetApp, DellEMC), the Prometheus exporter for SpecV is very limited and does not provide per-vDisk performance metrics, which is a key functionality the clients require. 

This kind of setup also shouldn't require purchasing additional software (such as Spectrum Control). Example: https://github.com/NetApp/harvest 

Idea priority Urgent
  • Admin
    Philip Clark
    Reply
    |     Mar 31, 2023

    Thank you for submitting this enhancement request. We have reviewed this request and believe it is a good candidate for Virtualize.

    We appreciate your input and hope that you will continue to submit enhancement requests, as this feedback is a key component to shaping the future direction of the Virtualize and FlashSystem family.

    Thanks,
    FlashSystem Team

    philipclark@ibm.com

  • Admin
    Philip Clark
    Reply
    |     Mar 24, 2023

    Thank you for submitting this Idea. We are currently evaluating your request.

    Thanks,
    FlashSystem Team

    philipclark@ibm.com

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