collectd-ceilometer-plugin

Collectd plugins for publishing to OpenStack (gnocchi and aodh).

This repositiory contains collectd plugins for publishing telemetry data (metrics and events) gathered by collectd to gnocchi and aodh. This allows a more comprehensive set of platform telemetry to be made available to OpenStack which enables service assurance, fault management and monitoring.

• Free software: Apache license
• Source: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/collectd-ceilometer-plugin

• Installation:

  https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/collectd-ceilometer-plugin/tree/doc/source/installation.rst

• Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/collectd-ceilometer-plugin

• Usage:

  https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/collectd-ceilometer-plugin/tree/doc/source/usage.rst

• Contact: E-mail the dev mailing list with the [collectd-ceilometer-plugin] tag

  mailto:openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org?subject=[collectd-ceilometer-plugin]

Collateral

The following are links to background information, collateral and references to provide a clearer view on the need for this plugin, what it does and how it works:

• Official collectd website:

  https://collectd.org/

• Information on how collectd is enabled for Openstack:

  https://01.org/openstack/blogs/emmalfoley/2016/collectd-enabling-openstack

• Presentation on how collectd, ceilometer and DPDK work together:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdebhsBFEJs

Features

• Gnocchi plugin (for collectd) ** Store collectd metrics in gnocchi
• Aodh plugin (for collectd) ** Forward collectd notifications to aodh
• Devstack plugin (for deploying the contents of this repo) ** Configure and deploy plugins ** Build collectd from source