Nutanix Clusters

Nutanix Clusters

Monitor Nutanix clusters' performance, usage and availability, with Nutanix API.

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Overview

Simplify monitoring of your Nutanix infrastructure. Focus on essential insights into your Nutanix clusters while retaining the context of the workloads and apps that the clusters enable. Leverage topological model that reflects the Nutanix platform composition to understand dependencies between Nutanix component operations and the performance of workloads that run on Nutanix. Automatically monitor dozens of Nutanix performance metrics, from hosts, through virtual machines and storage containers, down to disks and the network.

This extension is intended for users, who:

Run their workloads on Nutanix
Use Dynatrace to monitor workloads with Dynatrace OneAgent deployed on a virtual machine’s OS
Want to extend Dynatrace insights into the infrastructure on which VMs run and pinpoint the root causes of issues in their virtualization and application layers

This extension enables you to:

Monitor your Nutanix clusters using a Nutanix-specific entity model and comprehensive unified analysis views
Receive alerts on performance and availability issues detected in your Nutanix infrastructure
Take proactive actions based on anomalies detected in Nutanix infrastructure before they affect your applications

Note a breaking change with release 3.0 of this extension. Release 3.0 of this extension standardizes on Nutanix v4 API; Nutanix monitoring is now entirely based on Prism Central API. Previous releases used APIs v1 and v2, but these have been deprecated by Nutanix and soon won't be supported anymore (which means that monitoring via Prism Element API is not going to be available anymore). V4 API simplifies monitoring configuration and runtime, but also removes several metrics. Therefore, please revisit any metric alerts and dashboards you've created using metrics provided by the previously used extensions. You may need to replace previously used metrics with the new ones, or remove some visuals, as some metrics might have their IDs changed or they may have been removed entirely.

Use cases

Operational monitoring of your Nutanix clusters using Prism API in Dynatrace, integrated with related insights into the infrastructure and apps that your Nutanix clusters host.
Monitor resource utilization, latency, and bandwidth of clusters, hosts, virtual machines, and storage containers and receive alerts for detected anomalies.
Root cause analysis of Nutanix cluster performance bottlenecks, leveraging a dependency model that connects all the entities that comprise Nutanix clusters, all the way down to the OS instances that run the workflows monitored with Dynatrace OneAgent.

Compatibility information

A Nutanix cluster offering v4 API, reachable from an ActiveGate set up in your Dynatrace environment.
Nutanix v4 API connection details: Prism URL, user name, and password for authentication with the Prism v4 API.
A user account is required with granted the following roles (or equivalent), to view all resources:
- Cluster Viewer
- Storage Viewer
- Virtual Machine Viewer
- Network Infra Admin
- Monitoring Viewer (required only if Alerts and Events need to be imported)

Supported Nutanix Versions:

The following Nutanix versions have been tested to work with the extension. Other versions of Nutanix not listed may be compatible with the extension.

AOS Versions: 7.x
Prism version: 2023.4 and newer

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Extension content

Content typeNumber of items included

list screen layout

8

screen injections

2

document dashboard

1

screen dql table

8

metric metadata

90

screen chart groups

34

generic type

8

dashboards

1

screen layout

14

log metric

10

screen logs cards

10

screen entities lists

18

alerts

6

screen properties

7

generic relationship

10

Feature sets

Below is a complete list of the feature sets provided in this version. To ensure a good fit for your needs, individual feature sets can be activated and deactivated by your administrator during configuration.

Feature setsNumber of metrics included

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Disk Storage Capacity	nutanix_disk_storage_capacity	Storage capacity of the Disk	Byte
Disk Storage free	nutanix_disk_storage_free	Free Storage of the Disk	Byte
Disk Storage Usage	nutanix_disk_storage_usage	Used Storage of the Disk	Byte

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
VM Hypervisor I/O Latency	nutanix_vm_hypervisor_io_latency	Hypervisor I/O Latency for Virtual Machine	MicroSecond
VM Hypervisor CPU Ready Time %	nutanix_vm_hypervisor_cpu_ready_time_percent	Percentage of Hypervisor CPU Ready Time	Percent
VM Hypervisor CPU Usage %	nutanix_vm_hypervisor_cpu_usage_percent	Percentage of Hypervisor CPU Usage	Percent

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Host I/O Bandwidth	nutanix_host_io_bandwidth_kBps	Average I/O bandwidth of all disks on host in kBps	KiloByte

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Host CPU Usage %	nutanix_host_cpu_usage_percent	CPU usage of the Host	Percent
Host Memory Usage %	nutanix_host_hypervisor_memory_usage_percent	Memory usage of the Host	Percent
Host Health Check Score	nutanix_host_health_check_score	NCC check score indicating the health of the host. The value to health mapping is as follows. Good=100, Info=98, Warning=74, Critical=24, Error=13, Unknown=-1	Count
Host Alert	log.nutanix_host_alert	Alert on a Nutanix Host	Count
Host Event	log.nutanix_host_event	Event on a Nutanix Host	Count

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Disk IOPS	nutanix_disk_io_iops	IOPS Count of the Disk	Count
Disk Read IOPS	nutanix_disk_io_read_iops	Read IOPS Count of the Disk	Count
Disk Write IOPS	nutanix_disk_io_write_iops	Write IOPS Count of the Disk	Count
Disk Latency	nutanix_disk_io_latency	Latency of the Disk	MicroSecond
Disk I/O Bandwidth	nutanix_disk_io_bandwidth	Disk I/O Bandwidth	KiloBytePerSecond
Disk I/O Read Bandwidth	nutanix_disk_io_read_bandwidth	Disk I/O Read Bandwidth	KiloBytePerSecond
Disk I/O Write Bandwidth	nutanix_disk_io_write_bandwidth	Disk I/O Write Bandwidth	KiloBytePerSecond
Disk Read I/O %	nutanix_disk_read_io_percent	Percentage of read I/O for a disk	Percentage
Disk Write I/O %	nutanix_disk_write_io_percent	Percentage of write I/O for a disk	Percentage

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Storage Container Free Space (Physical)	nutanix_pool_storage_free_space_physical	Physical free space	Byte
Storage Container Total Space (Physical)	nutanix_pool_storage_total_space_physical	Physical total space	Byte
Storage Container Physical Usage	nutanix_pool_storage_physical_usage	Physical usage in bytes	Byte

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Cluster Hypervisor CPU Usage %	nutanix_cluster_cpu_hypervisor_usage_percent	Hypervisor CPU usage in cluster as a percentage	Percent
Cluster Hypervisor Memory Usage %	nutanix_cluster_memory_hypervisor_usage_percent	Hypervisor memory usage in cluster as a percentage	Percent
Cluster Health Check Score	nutanix_cluster_health_check_score	NCC check score indicating the health of the cluster. The value to health mapping is as follows. Good=100, Info=98, Warning=74, Critical=24, Error=13, Unknown=-1	Count
Cluster Alert	log.nutanix_cluster_alert	Alert on a Nutanix Cluster	Count
Cluster Event	log.nutanix_cluster_event	Event on a Nutanix Cluster	Count

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Host Storage Logical Usage Bytes	nutanix_host_storage_logical_usage_bytes	Storage Logical Usage for the Host	Byte
Host Storage Capacity Bytes	nutanix_host_storage_capacity_bytes	Storage Capacity for the Host	Byte
Host Storage Usage Bytes	nutanix_host_storage_usage_bytes	Storage Usage for the Host	Byte
Host Storage Free Bytes	nutanix_host_storage_free_bytes	Storage free Space for the Host	Byte

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Cluster Controller IOPS	nutanix_cluster_controller_iops	Number of IOPS of the Controller	Count
Cluster Controller Read IOPS	nutanix_cluster_controller_read_iops	Number of Read IOPS of the Controller	Count
Cluster Controller Write IOPS	nutanix_cluster_controller_write_iops	Number of Write IOPS of the controller	Count
Cluster Controller AVG I/O Latency	nutanix_cluster_controller_avg_io_latency	Average I/O Latency of the Controller	MicroSecond
Cluster Controller AVG Read I/O Latency	nutanix_cluster_controller_avg_read_io_latency	Average Read I/O Latency of the Controller	MicroSecond
Cluster Controller AVG Write I/O Latency	nutanix_cluster_controller_avg_write_io_latency	Average Write I/O Latency of the Controller	MicroSecond
Cluster Controller Read I/O Bandwidth	nutanix_cluster_controller_read_io_bandwidth	I/O Read Bandwidth of the Controller	KiloBytePerSecond
Cluster Controller Write I/O Bandwidth	nutanix_cluster_controller_write_io_bandwidth	I/O Write Bandwidth of the Controller	KiloBytePerSecond

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Storage Container Controller IOPS	nutanix_pool_io_controller_iops	Controller IOPS Count	Count
Storage Container Controller Read IOPS	nutanix_pool_io_controller_read_iops	Controller Read IOPS Count	Count
Storage Container Controller Write IOPS	nutanix_pool_io_controller_write_iops	Controller Write IOPS Count	Count
Storage Container Controller Latency	nutanix_pool_io_controller_latency	Controller Latency	Microsecond
Storage Container Controller Read Latency	nutanix_pool_io_controller_read_latency	Controller Read Latency	Microsecond
Storage Container Controller Write Latency	nutanix_pool_io_controller_write_latency	Controller Write Latency	Microsecond
Storage Container Controller I/O Bandwidth	nutanix_pool_io_controller_bandwidth	Controller I/O Bandwidth	KiloBytePerSecond
Storage Container Controller Read I/O Bandwidth	nutanix_pool_io_controller_read_bandwidth	Controller Read I/O Bandwidth	KiloBytePerSecond
Storage Container Controller Write I/O Bandwidth	nutanix_pool_io_controller_write_bandwidth	Controller Write I/O Bandwidth	KiloBytePerSecond

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Cluster Storage Capacity	nutanix_cluster_storage_capacity	Total storage capacity in bytes of the cluster	Byte
Cluster Storage Free	nutanix_cluster_storage_free	Total free storage in bytes for the cluster	Byte
Cluster Storage Logical Usage	nutanix_cluster_storage_logical_usage	Total storage logical usage in bytes for the cluster	Byte
Cluster Storage Usage	nutanix_cluster_storage_usage	Total storage usage in bytes of the cluster	Byte

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Virtual Disk Usage	nutanix_virtual_disk_usage	Usage of the virtual disk in bytes	Byte
Virtual Disk Capacity	nutanix_virtual_disk_capacity	Capacity of the virtual disk in bytes	Byte

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Disk Alert	log.nutanix_disk_alert	Alert on a Nutanix Disk	Count
Disk Event	log.nutanix_disk_event	Event on a Nutanix Disk	Count

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Storage Container Alert	log.nutanix_pool_alert	Alert on a Nutanix Storage Container	Count
Storage Container Event	log.nutanix_pool_event	Event on a Nutanix Storage Container	Count

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
VM CPU Usage %	nutanix_vm_cpu_usage_percent	Percentage of CPU usage for Virtual Machine	Percent
VM Memory Capacity	nutanix_vm_memory_capacity_bytes	Memory capacity in bytes given to Virtual Machine	Byte
VM Memory Usage	nutanix_vm_memory_usage_percent	Virtual Machine memory utilization	Percent
VM Alert	log.nutanix_vm_alert	Count of alerts generated by VM	Count
VM Event	log.nutanix_vm_event	Count of events generated by VM	Count

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
VM Controller Storage IOPS	nutanix_vm_controller_storage_iops	Controller Storage IOPS by Virtual Machine	Count
VM Controller Storage Read IOPS	nutanix_vm_controller_storage_read_iops	Controller Storage Read IOPS by Virtual Machine	Count
VM Controller Storage Write IOPS	nutanix_vm_controller_storage_write_iops	Controller Storage Write IOPS by Virtual Machine	Count
VM Controller Storage Latency	nutanix_vm_controller_storage_latency	Controller Storage Latency by Virtual Machine	MicroSecond
VM Controller Storage Read Latency	nutanix_vm_controller_storage_read_latency	Controller Storage Read Latency by Virtual Machine	MicroSecond
VM Controller Storage Write Latency	nutanix_vm_controller_storage_write_latency	Controller Storage Write Latency by Virtual Machine	MicroSecond
VM Controller Storage I/O Bandwidth	nutanix_vm_controller_storage_io_bandwidth	Controller Storage Bandwidth by Virtual Machine	KiloBytePerSecond
VM Controller Storage Read Bandwidth	nutanix_vm_controller_storage_read_bandwidth	Controller Storage Read Bandwidth by Virtual Machine	KiloBytePerSecond
VM Controller Storage Write Bandwidth	nutanix_vm_controller_storage_write_bandwidth	Controller Storage Write Bandwidth by Virtual Machine	KiloBytePerSecond

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Cluster I/O Bandwidth	nutanix_cluster_io_bandwidth	Controller I/O bandwidth in cluster in kilobytes per second	KiloBytePerSecond

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Network Free IPs	nutanix_network_free_ips	Number of free IPs in the network	Count
Network Assigned IPs	nutanix_network_assigned_ips	Number of assigned IPs in the network	Count
Network MAC Count	nutanix_network_num_macs	Number of MAC addresses in the network	Count

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Host Controller Storage IOPS	nutanix_host_controller_storage_iops	Controller Storage IOPS Count for the Host	Count
Host Controller Storage Read IOPS	nutanix_host_controller_storage_read_iops	Controller Storage Read IOPS Count for the Host	Count
Host Controller Storage Write IOPS	nutanix_host_controller_storage_write_iops	Controller Storage Write IOPS Count for the host	Count
Host Controller Storage Latency	nutanix_host_controller_storage_latency	Controller Storage Latency for the Host	MicroSecond
Host Controller Storage Read Latency	nutanix_host_controller_storage_read_latency	Controller Storage Read Latency for the Host	MicroSecond
Host Controller Storage Write Latency	nutanix_host_controller_storage_write_latency	Controller Storage Write Latency for the Host	MicroSecond
Host Controller Storage Read I/O Bandwidth	nutanix_host_controller_storage_read_io_bandwidth	Storage controller Read Bandwiidth for the Host	KiloBytePerSecond
Host Controller Storage Write I/O Bandwidth	nutanix_host_controller_storage_write_io_bandwidth	Storage controller Write Bandwiidth for the Host	KiloBytePerSecond

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ReleaseDate

Full version history

Patch level changes

Resolved an issue causing a misalignment on the VM CPU Usage scale between Nutanix and Dynatrace.
Added error codes and EndpointStatuses reporting for better supportability.

Full version history

New features:

Nutanix audit logs import is now possible. Audit logs will show up as any other logs in Dynatrace, next to Nutanix Alerts and Events already imported.

Full version history

3.5.9

Published Thu Nov 13 2025

Patch level changes

Improved dashboard performance.
Improved monitoring configuration's form validation.
Added a self monitoring metric reporting the number of API rate limit hits, if any.

Past release notes

3.5.3

Published Tue Sep 23 2025

Patch level changes

Improved metric collection performances for Disks, VMs and Virtual Disks. Meaning: expect less metric collection timeouts or data gaps in large environments.

3.2.7

Published Mon Aug 04 2025

⚠️IMPORTANT CHANGE: This extension release requires Dynatrace cluster version 1.313 or later.

New features

The dt.security_context attribute is now propagated to all entities created by the extension. When enabling entity access control based on dt.security_context ensure you set the Grail security context destination property to dt.security_context
Enabled the extension to present the Dynatrace Platform (a.k.a. Gen3) entity details screens in the future platform apps that will expect these screens

Patch level changes

Fixed a bug which caused the most recent Nutanix Alert to be reported multiple times to Dynatrace
Added Memory Capacity as a dimension for Host metrics
Added Cores per CPU and Threads per Core as dimensions for VM metrics
Fixed an infrequent issue of metric data loss when Nutanix API calls returned large data sets that require pagination.

3.2.0

Published Tue Jul 22 2025

New features

Nutanix Projects are now imported as Dynatrace entities
Patch level changes
Improved handling of the Nutanix API calls to avoid hitting the call rate limits as much as possible
Fixed a bug affecting the Network metrics reporting

3.1.1

Published Fri Jul 11 2025

New features

Import Categories from Prism and report them as tags on Nutanix entities maintained by the extension

Patch level changes

Improved Alerts and Events ingest by fixing timestamp conversion issues and optimizing the process
Fixed issues with configuration fastcheck failing under certain conditions

3.0.9

Published Mon Jun 23 2025

New features

Added option to set a custom collection frequency for all entities

Patch level changes

Fixed a bug in Alerts and Events, showing up when some parameters were not present in the API response
Improved reliability of the way how Prism Central cluster is detected in the API response.

3.0.4

Published Wed Jun 11 2025

⚠️IMPORTANT CHANGE: This extension release requires Dynatrace cluster version 1.310 or later.

New features

Added the Dynatrace Platform (a.k.a. Gen3) dashboard

Patch level changes

Corrected VM IP address reporting
Added Volume Group UUID as dimension for Virtual Disks
Added checks on creation time and last updated time for Alerts and Events

3.0.1

Published Tue May 27 2025

New features

Release 3 of this extension standardizes on Nutanix v4 API.
For the record: monitoring is now entirely based on Prism Central API. Monitoring via Prism Element API (i.e API v1) is not available in this release, as it is being deprecated by Nutanix.

Note a breaking change:

Monitoring configurations need to be recreated after activating this new extension release.
Please revisit any metric alerts and dashboards you've created using metrics provided by the previously used extensions, as v4 API simplifies monitoring configuration and runtime, but also removes several metrics.
You may need to replace previously used metrics with the new ones, or remove some visuals, as some metrics might have their IDs changed or they may have been removed entirely.

2.1.25

Published Wed Sep 24 2025

Patch level changes

Added validity check of the Prism Element IPs returned by the Prism Central, in order to avoid querying endpoints that don't have API enabled

2.1.20

Published Thu Apr 17 2025

Patch level changes

Fix conditions on the HOST screen so relationships are populated correctly

2.1.18

Published Wed Apr 02 2025

New features

Added alert on VM migration
Added Dynatrace Platform (Gen3) dashboard to the extension

Patch level changes

Host screen for hosts monitored with OneAgent received a card that details the underlying Nutanix VM on which this host runs

2.1.16

Published Sat Mar 08 2025

Patch level changes

Fixed issue with reading local configuration file.

2.1.14

Published Fri Jan 10 2025

Patch level changes

Fixed topology relationships handling, to enable VM-to-monitored-host drill-through on analysis screens

2.1.11

Published Tue Oct 22 2024

Patch level changes

Trim dimension values if they are longer than allowed
Added defaults for entity type in alerts/events
Added optional logging to streamline future bug fixes
Fixed an issue that was occurring when some dimension of the Virtual Disk were null

2.1.5

Published Tue Aug 13 2024

Patch level changes

Fix regex filters in monitoring configuration, so that an entity is included if ANY regex matches
Fix issues with fast-check failing on some Prism Element endpoints

2.0.0

Published Wed Jul 03 2024

New features

Added support for Prism Central API. Refer to the hub tile text for details on the Prism Central configuration requirements.

1.2.40

New features

Additional properties added to events and alerts derived from logs
Credentials vault support

Patch level changes

Support both LQL and DQL in log-based metrics extraction

1.2.32

Published Fri Apr 05 2024

New features

Changed the way how extension ingests Alerts and Events import from Nutanix. Now Alerts and Events are ingested as log lines and not as metric points. This change enables high scalability and resiliency in case of increased alert/event volume from Nutanix, and it lets you analyze and react on alerts/events, including their text, using powerful log query language. Alert/event counters are still available as metrics.
Analysis screens have been updated to follow this change how alerts/events are handled.
Added SAME_AS relationship between discovered VMs and OneAgent-monitored instances of the guest OS, using IP address as the join property (in addition to already existing relationship for Nutanix hosts). This relationship enables:
Davis AI analytics to look together at metrics obtained by this extension and from OneAgent, to completely characterize monitored guest OS instances performance
Discovery and Coverage app to suggest which discovered VMs should be instrumented with OneAgent for full visibility into performance

Note: Breaking change. We had to force re-creation of the topology entities maintained by this extension, in order to efficiently enable OneAgent-discovered entity integration. If you created dashboards or alerts with entity selectors referencing Nutanix entities, these may need to be refreshed.

Note: Prism Central API is not yet supported by this extension. Point it to Prism Element API for successful activation. We work on Prism Central support and will update the extension at a later date.

1.2.18

Published Thu Nov 09 2023

No release notes

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Patch level changes:

Added validity check of the Prism Element IPs returned by the Prism Central, in order to avoid querying endpoints that don't have API enabled

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