This page provides an overview of what you can do with the Photon OS Host integration. The documentation pages only for a limited number of integrations contain the setup steps and instructions. If you do not see the setup steps here, navigate to the Operations for Applications GUI. The detailed instructions for setting up and configuring all integrations, including the Photon OS Host integration are on the Setup tab of the integration.
- Log in to your Operations for Applications instance.
- Click Integrations on the toolbar, search for and click the Photon OS Host tile.
- Click the Setup tab and you will see the most recent and up-to-date instructions.
Photon OS Host Integration
Photon OS is an open-source minimalist Linux operating system from VMware that is optimized for cloud computing platforms, VMware vSphere deployments, and applications native to the cloud. Monitoring Photon OS hosts is easy with Tanzu Observability. This integration installs and configures Telegraf to send host metrics into Tanzu Observability. Telegraf is a light-weight server process capable of collecting, processing, aggregating, and sending metrics to a Wavefront proxy.
In addition to setting up the metrics flow, this integration also installs a dashboard. Here’s the dashboard displaying Photon OS host metrics.
