Monitor switch stacks

Switch stacks combine multiple physical switches into a single logical unit to simplify setup and monitoring. You can monitor the performance of the switch as a whole and drill down to individual members to evaluate the performance and health of the stack.

Supported solutions

The following switch stacking solutions are supported:

• Cisco StackWise

• HPE Aruba Virtual Switching Framework (VSF)

• Juniper Networks Virtual Chassis (requires Network Collector 2026.1 or later)

  Juniper Networks Virtual Chassis does not support power management or data ring management. As a result, widgets that display power and data ring details are not displayed.

View switch stack details

From the Entity Explorer, click the name of the switch stack to open the detail page. Then click the Switch Stack tab to view details about each member of the stack.

Available widgets

Switch Stack Details

Displays the polling IP address and the stack MAC address.

Switch Stack Members

Displays information about each member of the stack, including:

• Switch name
• Role, such as Master, Member, Not a member, or Standby
• Model
• Serial number
• RAM and CPU, if applicable

Ring widgets

Display the physical and logical links that connect stack members to help you quickly locate a member with issues.

• Stack Data Ring shows topology data

• Stack Power Ring shows power topology data

Click a member in the widget to display detailed information in the right pane.

Alerts

You can use the predefined Switch Stack Data Ring Broken template.