1. Types
2. appliance
3. monitoring

## appliance monitoring: monitored item

`monitored_item` structure Structure representing requested monitored item data.

### Representations:

- JSON
- XML

{
"category": "string",
"description": "string",
"id": "obj-103",
"instance": "string",
"name": "string",
"units": "string"
}
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<ns0:MonitoredItem xmlns:ns0="http://vmware.com/appliance/monitoring" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<id>obj-103</id>
<category>string</category>
<description>string</description>
<name>string</name>
<instance>string</instance>
<units>string</units>
</ns0:MonitoredItem>

#### Attributes:

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
Required
id | string | monitored item ID Ex: CPU, MEMORY When clients pass a value of this structure as a parameter, the field must be an identifier for the resource type: `com.vmware.appliance.monitoring`. When operations return a value of this structure as a result, the field will be an identifier for the resource type: `com.vmware.appliance.monitoring`.
name | string | monitored item name Ex: "Network write speed"
units | string | Y-axis label EX: "Mbps", "%"
category | string | category Ex: network, storage etc
instance | string | instance name Ex: eth0
description | string | monitored item description Ex: com.vmware.applmgmt.mon.descr.net.rx.packetRate.eth0