vSphere Plugin: tag/filter by VM inventory path or parent folder

[khord]

Feature Request

The usefulness of the inventory paths filter added in #4790 -> #4989 is (in my use case) largely negated by the inability to tag by the inventory path that yielded the VM object, or at least the immediate parent folder name. As a business who operates many cloned sets of same-named VMs differentiated by folder name, this makes it very hard to plot graphs from the metrics (right now, I have to enumerate a comma separated list of moref IDs for the VMs in each folder, then place that as a custom variable in Grafana to filter on).

Proposal:

Add ability to tag by the inventory path in the telegraf config which yielded the VM object, or by the VM's parent folder name/ID

Current behavior:

Unable to differentiate VMs of the same name other than by moref ID

Desired behavior:

Being able to filter VMs by their folder or folder path

Use case:

Inventory Paths in telegraf:

/DC0/vm/Training-Exercise-*/*

Example excerpt of VM folder tree, but hundreds of folders in practice

<root>
+-DC0 # Virtual datacenter
   +-vm # VM folder (created by system)
   | +-Production
   | | +-domain-controller
   | | +-nginx
   | | +-router
   | +-Training-Exercise-1
   | | +-windows-vm1
   | | +-ubuntu-vm1
   | | +-router
   | +-Training-Exercise-2
   | | +-windows-vm1
   | | +-ubuntu-vm1
   | | +-router
   | +-Training-Exercise-3
   | | +-windows-vm1
   | | +-ubuntu-vm1
   | | +-router

• Be able to differentiate windows-vm1, ubuntu-vm1, and router metrics between all the Training Exercise folders

[powersj]

Hi,

Sorry no one never got back to you.

Would you be willing to provide an example metric of 1) data you get now and 2) what your desired behavior is?

Thanks!

[telegraf-tiger]

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