On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 03:47:23PM +0200, Tomi wrote:
Hi folks,
is it possible to monitor and gather statistics in realtime (CPU,
memory, HDD, network, ... - something like dstat) of guest systems
with libvirt through console from host system (KVM based)? If yes, do
those guests need to be created through libvirt? Thanks for your help
and time.
If you have a large number of servers to monitor, you might want to look at the Host sFlow
agent:
http://host-sflow.sourceforge.net/
The Host sFlow agent is installed on the server and locally polls physical server
statistics and VM statistics using libvirt. The statistics are exported using the sFlow
protocol.
http://www.sflow.org/
If you want detailed network visibility then the Open vSwitch includes sFlow monitoring of
inter-VM traffic:
http://openvswitch.org/
For more information, see:
http://blog.sflow.com/2010/10/kvm.html
http://blog.sflow.com/2010/10/sflowtrend-adds-server-performance.html
Peter