On 05/02/2014 05:17 AM, Alexandre Viau wrote: > 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 > [email protected] > The blueprint is available here: > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/openstack-ci/+spec/monitoring-as-a-service > > Thanks!
I would prefer if monitoring capabilities was added to Ceilometer rather than adding yet-another project to deal with. What's the reason for not adding the feature to Ceilometer directly? Thomas _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
