+1 I like this idea. Best regards to you. Ricky
> -----Original Message----- > From: Alexandre Viau [mailto:alexandre.v...@savoirfairelinux.com] > Sent: Friday, May 02, 2014 5:17 AM > To: openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org > Subject: [openstack-dev] Monitoring as a Service > > Hello Everyone! > > My name is Alexandre Viau from Savoir-Faire Linux. > > We have submited a Monitoring as a Service blueprint and need feedback. > > Problem to solve: Ceilometer's purpose is to track and *measure/meter* usage > information collected from OpenStack components (originally for billing). > While > Ceilometer is usefull for the cloud operators and infrastructure metering, it > is > not a *monitoring* solution for the tenants and their services/applications > running in the cloud because it does not allow for service/application-level > monitoring and it ignores detailed and precise guest system metrics. > > Proposed solution: We would like to add Monitoring as a Service to Openstack > > Just like Rackspace's Cloud monitoring, the new monitoring service - lets > call it > OpenStackMonitor for now - would let users/tenants keep track of their > ressources on the cloud and receive instant notifications when they require > attention. > > This RESTful API would enable users to create multiple monitors with > predefined checks, such as PING, CPU usage, HTTPS and SMTP or custom > checks performed by a Monitoring Agent on the instance they want to monitor. > > Predefined checks such as CPU and disk usage could be polled from Ceilometer. > Other predefined checks would be performed by the new monitoring service > itself. Checks such as PING could be flagged to be performed from multiple > sites. > > Custom checks would be performed by an optional Monitoring Agent. Their > results would be polled by the monitoring service and stored in Ceilometer. > > If you wish to collaborate, feel free to contact me at > alexandre.v...@savoirfairelinux.com > The blueprint is available here: > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/openstack-ci/+spec/monitoring-as-a-service > > Thanks! > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
