How to Disable Monitoring of Specific Performance Counters in Veeam ONE

This article demonstrates how to limit the performance counters collected by Veeam ONE. This may be needed in situations where:

• There is a need to limit the network traffic between the Veeam ONE server and the virtual infrastructure servers.
  
• To decrease the Veeam ONE database growth rate.

Disabling performance counters can be used to achieve these results. However, keep in mind the following:

• Per Veeam best practices, it is strongly advised not to deploy Veeam ONE behind a limited-performance WAN link due to the significant volume of real-time performance data retrieved from the virtual infrastructure.
• It is recommended to host the Veeam ONE database on a dedicated Microsoft SQL Server instance to avoid performance issues.
• Disabling the retrieval of certain counters will affect Veeam ONE Monitor graphs and Veeam ONE Reporter reports that depend on those counters.

To disable the collection of certain counters from the virtual infrastructure, follow the next steps:

1. Open the Veeam ONE Settings utility.
2. Within the Veeam ONE Setting Utility, modify the Performance Metrics that will be collected.
3. Save the settings and restart Veeam ONE services to apply the changes.

NOTE: Advanced Scalability mode can be activated as an alternative option.

Data collection mode determines what metrics Veeam ONE will collect, and specifies the product configuration in a number of areas. Choosing the appropriate data collection mode allows you to optimize monitoring and reporting performance.
Data Collection Modes comparison table.