Virtualization & hypervisors · 5 min read

Monitor Hyper-V hosts over WMI

Hyper-V host and VM metrics are available through the same WMI path used for other Windows Server monitoring, plus Hyper-V's own WMI namespace.

What you'll need

  • A Windows service account with WMI access on the Hyper-V host
  • WMI already reachable from the sensor (see the WMI setup guide if this is a new host)
1

Confirm base WMI access works first

Add the Hyper-V host as a standard Windows/WMI device first and confirm basic host metrics report, before layering on Hyper-V-specific polling.

2

Enable the Hyper-V metric set

Under the device's settings in Linivo, enable the Hyper-V extension, which polls the host's Hyper-V WMI namespace for per-VM CPU, memory and disk metrics in addition to the base OS metrics.

3

Expect per-VM breakdowns, not just host totals

Once enabled, each VM on the host shows up as its own set of metrics rather than folding into the host's aggregate numbers, useful for finding which specific VM is driving a host's CPU spike.