Re: [libvirt] PCP libvirt Plugin

Hi, FYI, I've written a PCP plugin (PMDA in PCP parlance) to support most hypervisor / domain information and metrics available over the libvirt Python API, it's up to date as of libvirt 2.3 (so it already supports the recently added perf event metrics). In case you haven't heard about PCP, here's a brief intro: The Performance Co-Pilot (PCP, http://www.pcp.io/) system is a toolkit for collecting, archiving, and processing performance metrics. It supports system and application metrics from local and remote hosts, archives, and containers. A typical Linux PCP installation offers over 1,000 metrics by default and is easily extensible with its own plugins, or PMDAs ("Performance Metrics Domain Agents"). In addition to very complete /proc based statistics, readily available PCP PMDAs provide support components like 389 Directory Server, Apache, Ceph, GFS2, Gluster, MySQL, NFS, Oracle, Postfix, PostgreSQL, Samba, and Sendmail, among others. PCP also runs on many platforms, including Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, and Windows. And here's Quick Guide to get started with PCP: http://www.pcp.io/docs/guide.html (So PCP comes with handy clients like pmrep(1) for custom metrics reporting, sophisticated logging and inferencing tools, and support for Grafana based Web UI.) The libvirt metrics available with PCP libvirt PMDA and their descriptions are listed below, they include all the recently added perf event metrics as well as combined and per-device metrics for each VM. The plugin is available for Fedora in updates-testing and for Ubuntu from https://bintray.com/pcp/ . As this is a recent addition, the plugin or some of the later additions like per-device metrics have not propagated to all distributions yet. For those using PCP already, they may also manually grab the needed files from the below page without the need to upgrade any PCP packages: https://myllynen.fedorapeople.org/pmdalibvirt/ Upstream code lives here: http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pcp/pcp.git;a=tree;f=src/pmdas/li... I wonder could this be mentioned at https://libvirt.org/apps.html ?