Re: [libvirt-users] Monitoring and statistics through libvirt
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
On 10/16/2010 10:26 AM, peter.phaal@gmail.com wrote:
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/
Useful looking project. Just added a link to it from the libvirt.org wiki: http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Main_Page#Networking Hope that helps. :) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift
Justin, Thank you for the listing. For anyone interested in the format of the data exported by the Host sFlow agent, the following document describes how the libvirt metrics are encoded: http://www.sflow.org/sflow_host.txt The sFlow protocol is very simple, the existing libvirt structures are basically serialized using XDR and sent as UDP datagrams. Apart from the increased scalability of pushing rather than pulling performance counters; the sFlow standard links network, server (both physical and virtual) and application performance statistics together within a single multi-vendor standard: http://blog.sflow.com/2010/08/sflow-host-structures.html Peter On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 7:25 AM, Justin Clift <jclift@redhat.com> wrote:
On 10/16/2010 10:26 AM, peter.phaal@gmail.com wrote:
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/
Useful looking project. Just added a link to it from the libvirt.org wiki:
http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Main_Page#Networking
Hope that helps. :)
Regards and best wishes,
Justin Clift
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