Performance Metrics of a Nutanix Host monitor

Stay on top of your Nutanix host's health and performance by monitoring key performance metrics of its hypervisor, CPU, memory, disk, and content cache—all from a single console. Monitor your Nutanix host environment using Site24x7 On-Premise Poller. Add a host to get started with monitoring.

By monitoring a Nutanix host, you can:

View different performance metrics.
Add a threshold and availability profile to declare a specific resource as critical or down.
Analyze critical performance issues using reports.

Interpret Nutanix host performance metrics

Different tabs display different metrics, grouped by category.

Summary: Lists key CPU, memory, and storage stats along with host configuration and hardware summary details.
I/O Operation: Displays various I/O operations from the disk, hypervisor, and storage controller as graphs.
Bandwidth: Displays data transfer information as graphs from the disk, hypervisor, and storage controller.
Latency: Shows the read, write, and average latencies of the disk, hypervisor, and storage controller.
Content Cache: Shows the number of hits and lookups, and the different types of memory used.

Summary

Metrics	Description
CPU Summary (GHz)	Overview of CPU usage
Memory Summary (GiB)	Overview of memory usage
Storage Summary (GiB)	Overview of storage space
Nutanix Host Configuration	Details like host name, host type, state, CPU model, block model, hypervisor name, hypervisor address, and the controller VM's IP address
Hardware Summary	Details like number of sockets, CPU cores, CPU thresholds, disks, and virtual machines
CPU Usage (%)	The percentage of the CPU capacity currently being used by the host
Memory Usage (%)	The percentage of memory capacity currently being used by the host
Disk/Physical Usage (GiB and %)	The amount of physical storage space used currently in the host
Read IOPS (%)	Percent of I/O operations per second (IOPS) that are reads
Write IOPS (%)	Percent of IOPS that are writes
Content Cache Hit Rate (%)	Content cache hits over all lookups

I/O Operation

Metrics	Description
I/O Operations from Hypervisor (count/sec)	IOPS for the host from the hypervisor
I/O Read Operations from Hypervisor (count/sec)	Input/output read operations per second from the hypervisor
I/O Write Operations from Hypervisor (count/sec)	Input/output write operations per second from the hypervisor
I/O Operations from Disk (count/sec)	IOPS for the host from the disk
I/O Read Operations from Disk (count/sec)	Input/output read operations per second from the disk
I/O Write Operations from Disk (count/sec)	Input/output write operations per second from the disk
I/O Operations from the Storage Controller (count/sec)	IOPS for the host from the storage controller
I/O Read Operations from the Storage Controller (count/sec)	Input/output read operations per second from the storage controller
I/O Write Operations from the Storage Controller (count/sec)	Input/output write operations per second from the storage controller

Bandwidth

Metrics	Description
Data Transferred per second from Hypervisor (MB/sec)	Data transferred per second from the hypervisor to the host
Read Data Transferred per second from Hypervisor (MB/sec)	Read data transferred per second from the hypervisor to the host
Write Data Transferred per second from Hypervisor (MB/sec)	Write data transferred per second from the hypervisor to the host
Data Transferred per second from Disk (MB/sec)	Data transferred per second from the disk to the host
Read Data Transferred per second from Disk (MB/sec)	Read data transferred per second from the disk to the host
Write Data Transferred per second from Disk (MB/sec)	Write data transferred per second from the disk to the host
Data Transferred from the Storage Controller (MB/sec)	Data transferred per second from the storage controller to the host
Read Data Transferred from the Storage Controller (MB/sec)	Read data transferred per second from the storage controller to the host
Write Data Transferred from the Storage Controller (MB/sec)	Write data transferred per second from the storage controller to the host

Latency

Metrics	Description
I/O Latency of Hypervisor (millisecs)	The average time taken by the hypervisor to process I/O requests
I/O Read Latency of Hypervisor (millisecs)	The average time taken by the hypervisor to process I/O read requests
I/O Write Latency of Hypervisor (millisecs)	The average time taken by the hypervisor to process I/O write requests
I/O Latency of Disk (millisecs)	The average time taken by the disk to process I/O requests
I/O Latency of the Storage Controller (millisecs)	The average time taken by the storage controller to process I/O requests
Read Latency of the Storage Controller (millisecs)	The average time taken by this storage controller to process I/O read requests
Write Latency of the Storage Controller (millisecs)	The average time taken by this storage controller to process I/O write requests

Content Cache

Metrics	Description
Number of Hits on the Content Cache	The number of times read requests were served from this cache
Number of Lookups on the Content Cache	The number of times the cache was looked up for serving read requests
Logical Memory Used to Cache Data Without Deduplication (MiB)	Logical memory used to cache data without deduplication
Physical Memory Used by the Content Cache to Cache Data (MiB)	Real memory used to cache data by the content cache
Logical SSD Memory Used to Cache Data Without Deduplication (GiB)	Logical SSD memory used to cache data without deduplication
Physical SSD Memory Used by the Content Cache to Cache Data (GiB)	The real SSD memory used to cache data
Memory Saved from Content Cache Deduplication (GiB)	Memory saved due to content cache deduplication
SSD Usage Saved from Content Cache Deduplication (GiB)	SSD usage saved due to content cache deduplication

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Interpret Nutanix host performance metrics
Summary
IO Operation
Bandwidth
Latency
Content Cache
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