Hyper-V Event Monitor Reference Guide
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Overview
The Hyper-V Event Monitor connects to your hypervisor to gather data on the Hyper-V core and the virtual machines it hosts. This event monitor is integral for ensuring the stability and operational efficiency of your Hyper-V environments.
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Use Cases
- Virtual Machine Monitoring: Keep track of virtual machine reboots and state changes.
- Snapshot Management: Monitor and alert on the number of snapshots to manage storage effectively.
- Selective Monitoring: Focus on specific VMs while excluding others from monitoring.
Monitoring Options
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Alerts and Notifications
- Host Reachability: Alerts if the Hyper-V host cannot be contacted.
- Virtual Machine Reboots: Notifies when a VM is restarted, determined by a reset in uptime.
- State Changes: Generates alerts for any state transitions in VMs, except when entering the running state if so configured.
- Snapshot Count: Alerts if the number of VM snapshots exceeds a specified threshold.
Configuration Options
- Ignore VM Transitions to Running: Opt out of receiving alerts when VMs enter the running state.
- VM Uptime in Notifications: Include the uptime of each monitored VM in alerts.
- Exclusion List: Define VMs to ignore by names or partial names, separated by commas. Any virtual machine that has any of the specified strings in its name will be ignored.
Authentication and Security
- Required Permissions: Monitoring requires credentials with administrative rights or specific group memberships, such as Performance Monitor Users and Distributed COM Users groups.
Protocols
Data Points
| Data Point | Description |
|---|---|
| Up Time | The time the device has been up and running. |
Sample Output
