VIM stands for Virtual Infrastructure Methodology, the RESTful API of vSphere. The vim dashboard is a simple Kibana topN
query on the vim
field. This field is created any time logstash see something like vim.method.call
This dashboard is embedded in SexiLog. If you want up-to-date version for your own platform, the Gist code for this dashboard is:
https://gist.github.com/sexibytes/e903439deb87e163d683
More information about dashboard import in Kibana is available here