The “Power” of Metrics: Introducing Metrics Exporter for PowerStore

In the ever-changing landscape of IT infrastructure and services, obtaining real-time insights into metrics, whether performance, capacity utilization or power consumption, is becoming table stakes-and in some cases a competitive differentiator. Metrics Exporter for Dell PowerStore is an open-source tool Dell Technologies has made available on our official GitHub page that enables customers to extract such metrics from our enterprise storage offering PowerStore and have it consumed by popular third-party tools such as Grafana, Prometheus and Zabbix. This could be a pathway to unlock the "power" of your storage metrics, enabling you to optimize your IT operations.

Tracking metrics like performance (IOPS/bandwidth/latency), capacity usage (available/used space) and power consumption (temperature/watts) enables visibility into your entire infrastructure environment. Proactively monitor your environment to spot any performance bottlenecks or capacity constraints. You can efficiently allocate resources by identifying underutilized or oversaturated resources and optimize as needed. Effective capacity planning is made possible by analyzing historical data and forecasting future storage requirements. Last but not least, tracking power consumption helps in optimizing for energy efficiency and reducing operational costs, allowing organizations to meet their sustainability benchmarks. Leveraging the tool can enhance operational efficiency, improve decision making and ensure the effective use of your IT infrastructure assets.

Metrics Exporter for Dell PowerStore is more than just a metrics monitoring tool. It can be a strategic asset that empowers our customers to make data-driven decisions to optimize performance, improve capacity utilization, reallocate resources based on need and contribute to a more sustainable future. Unlock the "power" of your metrics and elevate your organization to new heights.

Access the Solution Brief and GitHub Repository.