This documentation supports releases of BMC Helix Dashboards up to December 31, 2021. To view the latest version, select the version from the Product version menu.

Metric query


As a tenant administrator or an editor, you can use the Metric query type to fetch the performance metrics data of the devices in your environment.

This query type uses the PromQL or MetricsQL syntax.

This query requires the following data:

Examples

Here are a few examples of the Metric query type:

  • View the CPU utilization for a LINUX host, where the host name is hostA.bmc.com.
    Utilization{hostname="hostA.bmc.com"}
  • View the available filesystem space on a device for the root file system, where the host name is hostB.bmc.com.
    AvailableSpace{hostname="hostB.bmc.com", entityName="root"}

 

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