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alex14112022
Copper Contributor
Nov 13, 2022

VM Availability Metric

For the VM availability metrics, it is said "The metric allows you to track the pulse of your VMs—during expected behavior, the metric displays a value of 1. In response to any VM availability disruptions, the metric dips to a 0 for the duration of impact"

 

I believe the pulse is referring to the heartbeat which is either 1 or 0. However, if i have a reading of 0.25 for a time gauntly of 5mins, may i know how to interpret the data? In addition, since the pulse track the availability of the VM, i am wondering how the number will become 0.25 since i did not stop the VM. 

 

Thanks

2 Replies

  • Dravidan's avatar
    Dravidan
    Copper Contributor
    May 17, 2026

    I understand that the pulse shows whether the VM is available or not, where 1 means available and 0 means unavailable. However, if the value shows as 0.25 for a 5-minute interval, could you help explain what that means? Since the VM was not stopped, I would also like to understand how the value became 0.25.

  • Kidd_Ip's avatar
    Kidd_Ip
    MVP
    May 17, 2026

    A VM availability metric value of 0.25 over a 5‑minute time grain means that during that interval, the VM was only available for 25% of the time. This does not imply the VM was fully stopped rather than metric averaged across samples, so intermittent disruptions or partial unavailability reduce the value below 1.