Revision as of 04:17, 12 July 2014

Summary

Monitoring as a Service

An OpenStack related project designed to provide highly available, scalable and flexible monitoring for OpenStack.

Surveil will try to solve the needs mentioned in the Monitoring as a Service blueprint

Key Project Tenets

Community Driven

• Collaborative open design
• Open source under Apache 2.0 just like OpenStack.
• Simple governance model that mirrors existing OpenStack projects.
  • Code hosted on OpenStack with StackForge.

OpenStack Native Design

• Leverage existing OpenStack projects (Heat, Nova, Glance, Keystone, Neutron, Trove, etc.)
• Leverage existing Open Source projects (Shinken, Riemann, InfluxDB, Adagios, Grafana)

Proposed architecture

Technologies

• Shinken is a monitoring framework. It's a Python Nagios® Core total rewrite enhancing flexibility and large environment management.
• Adagios Adagios is a web based Nagios configuration interface built to be simple and intuitive in design.
• Riemann is an event stream processor.
• InfluxDB is an open-source distributed time series database with no external dependencies.

IRC

We use IRC at #surveil on freenode for development discussion.

Ressources

• Blueprint that led to Surveil: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ceilometer/+spec/monitoring-as-a-service
• Shinken: http://www.shinken-monitoring.org/
• Adagios: http://adagios.org/
• InfluxDB: http://influxdb.com/
• Riemann: http://riemann.io/