Monitor vSphere Supervisor and Guest Clusters with VCF Operations

apiVersion: soultec.ch/v1kind: Postmetadata: name: how-to-monitor-vsphere-supervisor-and-guest-clusters-with-aria-operations locale: en labels: author: yannick-gerber series: how-to capability/monitoring: 2.71 capability/containers: 2.39 vendor/vmware: 0.88 annotations: source: blog-content/posts/en/how-to-monitor-vsphere-supervisor-and-guest-clusters-with-aria-operations.md route: /en/insights/how-to-monitor-vsphere-supervisor-and-guest-clusters-with-aria-operations/ schema: /nerd/schema/posts.json markdown: /en/insights/how-to-monitor-vsphere-supervisor-and-guest-clusters-with-aria-operations.mdspec: title: Monitor vSphere Supervisor and Guest Clusters with VCF Operations date: 2025-03-26 author: yannick-gerber locale: en summary: >- Monitoring vSphere Supervisor Cluster and Kubernetes Guest Cluster with the Kubernetes Management Pack in VCF (Aria) Operations. The Monitoring is a great alternative to prometheus and grafana. capabilities: [monitoring, containers] vendors: [vmware] series: how-to hero: >- /blog-assets/how-to-monitor-vsphere-supervisor-and-guest-clusters-with-aria-operations/hero.webp legacySlug: >- how-to-monitor-vsphere-supervisor-and-guest-clusters-with-aria-operations migrated: 2026-08-24 draft: false sections: - body: | Monitoring vSphere Supervisor Cluster and Kubernetes Guest Cluster with the Kubernetes Management Pack in VCF (Aria) Operations. The Monitoring is a great alternative to prometheus and grafana. No Installations necessary on the Kubernetes Guest Clusters. # Goal The Goal is to monitor the vSphere Supervisor Cluster and every Kubernetes Guest Cluster, also monitoring newly provisioned Guest Clusters automatically. ![](/blog-assets/how-to-monitor-vsphere-supervisor-and-guest-clusters-with-aria-operations/01.webp) # Logical Diagram The Kubernetes Management Pack works the following way: ![](/blog-assets/how-to-monitor-vsphere-supervisor-and-guest-clusters-with-aria-operations/02.webp) # Prerequisites - Aria Operations 8.18.x - Kubernetes Management Pack (2.2) - vCenter already added in Aria Ops - heading:

Gather Required Data

body: | We need the following Data to configure a Account on the Aria Operations Kubernetes Management Pack: - Supervisor IP (VIP) - certificate-authority-data - client-certificate-data - client-key-data ### Step 1 – SSH Login to Control Plane Nodes SSH to the vCenter Appliance with the root user, then run (bash shell): ```bash sshpass -p `/usr/lib/vmware-wcp/decryptK8Pwd.py | \ grep PWD | \ awk '{print $2}'` ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no root@`/usr/lib/vmware-wcp/decryptK8Pwd.py | \ grep IP | \ awk '{print $2}'` ``` If the bash shell is not enabled, run: ```bash shell.set --enabled=true ``` View the kubeconfig file on one of the CP Nodes an gather the following data: - certificate-authority-data - client-certificate-data - client-key-data ```bash cat ~/.kube/config ``` - heading:

Aria Operations

body: | #### Add the Kubernetes Management Pack (.pak) File Administration > Integrations > Repository ![](/blog-assets/how-to-monitor-vsphere-supervisor-and-guest-clusters-with-aria-operations/03.webp) ![](/blog-assets/how-to-monitor-vsphere-supervisor-and-guest-clusters-with-aria-operations/04.webp) #### Add the Supervisor Cluster Administration > Integrations > Add Cloud Account > Kubernetes ![](/blog-assets/how-to-monitor-vsphere-supervisor-and-guest-clusters-with-aria-operations/05.webp) - Control Plane URL: Supervisor VIP - Kubelet - Advanced Settings: Autodiscover TGK Guest Cluster (vCenter needs to be added to Aria Ops already) ![](/blog-assets/how-to-monitor-vsphere-supervisor-and-guest-clusters-with-aria-operations/06.webp) Credentials: ![](/blog-assets/how-to-monitor-vsphere-supervisor-and-guest-clusters-with-aria-operations/07.webp) ### Inventory If Autodiscovery is enabled, your Kubernetes Guest Clusters will show up after a few minutes. ![](/blog-assets/how-to-monitor-vsphere-supervisor-and-guest-clusters-with-aria-operations/08.webp) # Dashboards The Kubernetes Management Pack includes lots of useful dashboards to explore. ![](/blog-assets/how-to-monitor-vsphere-supervisor-and-guest-clusters-with-aria-operations/09.webp)status: corpus: 267 alsoLike: - {ref: posts/howto-monitor-cronjobs-with-aria-operations, score: 0.67} - {ref: posts/vmware-automatically-deleting-vmware-vm-snapshots, score: 0.67} - {ref: solutions/vmware/vmware-cloud-foundation/addon/business-operations, score: 0.58}

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Gather Required Data

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Aria Operations

", "body": "#### Add the Kubernetes Management Pack (.pak) File\n\nAdministration > Integrations > Repository\n\n![](/blog-assets/how-to-monitor-vsphere-supervisor-and-guest-clusters-with-aria-operations/03.webp)\n\n![](/blog-assets/how-to-monitor-vsphere-supervisor-and-guest-clusters-with-aria-operations/04.webp)\n\n#### Add the Supervisor Cluster\n\nAdministration > Integrations > Add Cloud Account > Kubernetes\n\n![](/blog-assets/how-to-monitor-vsphere-supervisor-and-guest-clusters-with-aria-operations/05.webp)\n\n- Control Plane URL: Supervisor VIP\n- Kubelet\n- Advanced Settings: Autodiscover TGK Guest Cluster (vCenter needs to be added to Aria Ops already)\n\n![](/blog-assets/how-to-monitor-vsphere-supervisor-and-guest-clusters-with-aria-operations/06.webp)\n\nCredentials:\n\n![](/blog-assets/how-to-monitor-vsphere-supervisor-and-guest-clusters-with-aria-operations/07.webp)\n\n### Inventory\n\nIf Autodiscovery is enabled, your Kubernetes Guest Clusters will show up after a few minutes.\n\n![](/blog-assets/how-to-monitor-vsphere-supervisor-and-guest-clusters-with-aria-operations/08.webp)\n\n# Dashboards\n\nThe Kubernetes Management Pack includes lots of useful dashboards to explore.\n\n![](/blog-assets/how-to-monitor-vsphere-supervisor-and-guest-clusters-with-aria-operations/09.webp)" } ], "status": { "corpus": 267, "alsoLike": [ { "ref": "posts/howto-monitor-cronjobs-with-aria-operations", "score": "0.67" }, { "ref": "posts/vmware-automatically-deleting-vmware-vm-snapshots", "score": "0.67" }, { "ref": "solutions/vmware/vmware-cloud-foundation/addon/business-operations", "score": "0.58" } ] }}

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Gather Required Data

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Aria Operations

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Gather Required Data

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Aria Operations

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