Watch the latest episode of VCF Breakroom Chats. In Episode 91, Kyle Gleed and Sehjung Hah discuss how real-time metrics in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1 transforms VMware infrastructure into a true private cloud.
Building on operational improvements and enhanced visibility into metrics and costs, VCF 9.1 enables teams to do the following.
- Accelerate troubleshooting: Explore the new real-time metrics feature in VMware Cloud Foundation Operations to speed up private cloud troubleshooting.
- Modernize management: Migrate appliance capabilities into containerized services running on pods, powering real-time metric collection.
- Gather granular data: Collect real-time metrics across core VCF infrastructure components, including vCenter, ESXi, NSX, and vSAN.
- Customize visibility: Leverage Prometheus Query Language (PromQL) to write custom queries and save them as dashboard widgets.
- Standardize integration: Access real-time metrics seamlessly via standard APIs.
- Export to third-party tools: Use PromQL support to pull real-time VCF metrics into third-party dashboards such as Grafana.

Learn more about VCF Operations.
Discover new VCF 9.1 capabilities via the interactive Hands-on Lab (HOL).
About the VCF Breakroom Chat Series
In this series, we share vlogs with industry-recognized experts from Broadcom and Broadcom partners and customers. These vlogs are concise, like meeting in a breakroom and getting great information from a quick conversation. This series is for you if you are an IT practitioner, IT admin, cloud or platform architect, platform engineer, developer, DevOps, senior IT manager, IT executive, or AI/ML professional. If you are new to the series, please check out our previous episodes.
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