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The main Hardware dashboard provides an overview of the energy usage and carbon emissions of all data centers and server rooms. It leverages the metrics collected by MetricsHub.

Architecture diagram: MetricsHub runs on-prem, monitors your servers, switches and storage systems, and pushes metrics to your Datadog environment.

MetricsHub monitors Windows and Linux systems in details, allowing administrators to prevent failures and quickly troubleshoot performance and capacity issues. Hundreds of remote Linux and Windows systems can be monitored from one single instance of MetricsHub.

The system performance dashboard is designed to support several hosts at once, allowing administrators to easily assess the performance of clustered systems.

For each monitored host, MetricsHub monitors its electronic components (CPUs, memory, disks, NICs, sensors, etc.), its power consumption, system, and carbon emissions.

For each site (data center or server room), energy and carbon emissions are estimated for 1 day, 1 month and 1 year. Recommendation of optimal temperature is made with its potential energy savings over a year.

All hardware problems (disks, memory modules, NICs, power supplies, etc.) are monitored with specific monitors, with detailed messages.

The MetricsHub integration comes with a collection of recommended monitors to report hardware problems in your infrastructure.

Overview

MetricsHub® is a universal infrastructure monitoring agent designed to give Datadog deep visibility across your entire IT stack.

It captures and forwards comprehensive telemetry—from server hardware health and database performance to network devices, storage systems, energy usage, and sustainability KPIs. Its rich telemetry enables unified observability in Datadog, helping teams optimize operations, ensure uptime, and meet sustainability goals.

Key features

• Remote Monitoring: MetricsHub supports the monitoring of thousands of systems remotely through protocols such as REST APIs, SNMP, WBEM, WMI, SSH, IPMI, and more.
• 250+ Connectors: Ready-to-use connectors for monitoring a wide variety of platforms. MetricsHub agent is truly vendor-neutral, providing consistent coverage for all manufacturers (for example, Cisco, Dell EMC, Huawei, HP, IBM, Lenovo, Pure, and more).
• OpenTelemetry Integration: MetricsHub pushes collected metrics as OpenTelemetry metrics, following its standards, protocol and semantic conventions, for easy integration with various observability platforms.
• Sustainability Metrics: Track and report on energy usage and carbon footprint to optimize infrastructure efficiency.

Supported platforms

MetricsHub connectors directory

Dashboards

This MetricsHub integration comes with pre-configured dashboards that display system performance metrics, hardware health, as well as sustainability KPIs:

• MetricsHub Hardware Main: Overview of all monitored systems, focusing on key hardware and sustainability metrics.
• MetricsHub Hardware Site: Metrics specific to a particular site (a data center or a server room) and its monitored hosts.
• MetricsHub Hardware Host: Metrics associated with the hardware components of a physical host.
• MetricsHub System Performance: System performance metrics for Linux and Windows systems, including CPU, memory, filesystems, disks, and network.

Support

A subscription to MetricsHub through the Datadog Marketplace grants access to all services provided by the MetricsHub Support Desk:

• Technical Support through Jira Service Management
• Knowledge Base
• Patches

Further Reading

For more information, visit the MetricsHub website.

This application is made available through the Marketplace and is supported by a Datadog Technology Partner. Click Here to purchase this application.