Hello, Is it possible to get at the (historical) performance data provided by libvirtd? Is it stored for a period of time, or only available to clients polling it?

On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 02:31:29PM +0200, Daniel Veillard wrote: > On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 02:01:02PM +0200, James Brackinshaw wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Is it possible to get at the (historical) performance data provided by > > libvirtd? Is it stored for a period of time, or only available to > > clients polling it? > >   Libvirtd doesn't store any, you really need to poll at the frequency > you consider appropriate, FYI, you can use 3rd party monitoring software with a libvirt data collection plugin. We have written plugins for collectd, munin and nagios - it is trivially to do the same for more monitoring apps if one of those doesn't suit your needs Daniel