Following the release of VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1, Real-time metrics capabilities were added to collect real-time, granular data from core VMware Cloud Foundation infrastructure. The real-time metrics component collects performance data directly from vCenter, ESX, NSX, and vSAN and stores the data in a dedicated Real-Time Metrics Store which is then displayed on-demand within the Observability Workbench in VCF Operations. This outbound connection originates from the real-time metrics component that operates within VCF management services (see the Deploy Real-Time Metrics section of the product documentation to deploy using the VCF Operations UI).

Once your VCF fleet has successfully been deployed and is up and running you can configure or add additional capabilities to the VMware Cloud Foundation platform. The first capability we will look at is Log Management. It is no longer installed as a standalone, heavy virtual appliance. Instead, it is deployed as a native containerized service running inside the consolidated VCF Management Services framework.

VCF Fleet Lifecycle Service APIs Used

This week I've been looking into a number of automation scenarios using the VMware Cloud Foundation public APIs, whilst working through this it became clear that there are many endpoints across the VMware Cloud Foundation platform that you may need to interact with and therefore different bits of API documentation that must be consulted. I also found locating the correct API documentation on the Broadcom not as straightforward as it perhaps should be. You can use this blog as a quick reference for your own automation development.

Last Updated: 24-Jun-2026

Interacting with the public APIs of a VMware Cloud Foundation platform enables organizations to build custom end-to-end automation for their needs. The first step in the process involves obtaining an authentication token. A VMware Cloud Foundation platform consists of a number of core end points, each requiring slightly different parameters to carry out the interaction.

Whilst public API documentation is available across the VMware Cloud Foundation platform (see developer.broadcom.com), concrete examples of how to consume the various APIs is either not consistent or lacking, for this reason I decided to pull together this post to help with the specifics, this post covers the following end-points: