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• Monitors OpenStack infrastructure and resources
  • monitors both OpenStack infrastructure and its resources (e.g., VMs) so that another monitoring tool may not be needed.
  • monitors OpenStack CRUD operations using StackTach
  • (notion of host, applications, grouping)

• Can Scale
  • to hundreds of thousands of servers, metrics, alarms

• Allows user-defined metric and alarm creation
  • Where a user is system administrator of the cloud, or a cloud consumer
  • Allows metrics and alarms to be defined on a group of resources (e.g., host aggregates, availability zones)

• Multi-tenant, multi-cloud, multiple deployment models
  • can process metrics from multiple clouds, tenants, and users
  • works in multiple deployment models
    • single private cloud (e.g., 10 nodes)
    • multiple private clouds
    • private and public cloud (hybrid)

• Has an HTTP based extensible API
  • for metrics, alarm creation, metric collection.

• Can monitor OpenStack projects

• Authentication
  • Authenticates with keystone. May also authenticate with other backends (e.g., CloudFoundry, Open LDAP, AWS)

• Provides a pluggable messaging system

• Provides a pluggable backend store
  • e.g., vertica, influx DB, Cassandra, MySQL

• A monitoring dashboard
  • using Grafana

• Built using python and open source tools