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Posted to users@cloudstack.apache.org by Jeremy Peterson <jp...@acentek.net> on 2015/10/16 23:25:28 UTC
Cloudstack - Monitoring
We are looking at a new monitoring software for our corporate environment. Management has requested that CloudStack and XenServer be added to that monitoring software. One of the software titles we are looking at is DataDogHQ.
https://bigpanda.io/monitoringscape/
Does anyone use a 3rd party software to monitor process's in your cloudstack server farm and hypervisor?
jeremy
Re: Cloudstack - Monitoring
Posted by Douglas Land <ds...@looprock.com>.
Currently we're monitoring:
DB
Error Events Via API
Management JVMs
Overall Capacity
General Host Systems
Host Capacity
Host Hypervisor
Cloudstack System VMs
Most of it is just using 'off the shelf OSS components:
https://github.com/swisstxt/cloudstack-nagios
https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Plugin:libvirt
https://github.com/sensu-plugins/sensu-plugins-java
@Rafael, are you guys not using any kind of config management? If not, I'd
highly suggest it.
On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 8:20 PM, Rafael Weingärtner <
rafaelweingartner@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jeremy,
>
> You said you were going to enable SNMP on your hosts. Out of curiosity,
> what is the size of your environment?
>
> That seems a pretty time consuming to enable SNMP in lots of servers.
> Despite the fact that you would have to manage and secure properly the SNMP
> into those servers.
>
> On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 9:34 PM, Jeremy Peterson <jp...@acentek.net>
> wrote:
>
> > I guess what i'm thinking is installing snmp on my server farm. I will
> > check ping hdd % and cpu usage.
> >
> > 2 LB's check status of haproxy service
> > 2 DB's check status of mysqld
> > 2 CSMAN's check status of cloudstack-managment
> > 1 CSTS jump box
> > 1 Deploy server for quick redeploy of a all of the above
> >
> > Now for XenServer does anyone monitor if it's running truly i installed
> it
> > and added it to cloudstack poked around here and there when I have issues
> > turn HA off when i need to maintenance a server to apply updates but i
> > don't currently monitor if the virtualization is running which i would
> like
> > to and check cpu usage.
> >
> > I do have alerts in CloudStack setup that emails me on those issues, but
> > managment wants to get everything under one roof to have graphing of
> usage
> > trends.
> >
> > Basically the host statistics in CloudStack sent out to a 3rd party would
> > be great.
> >
> > Jeremy
> > ________________________________________
> > From: Stephan Seitz <s....@secretresearchfacility.com>
> > Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2015 4:13 AM
> > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org
> > Subject: Re: Cloudstack - Monitoring
> >
> > We've added our acs infrastructure into our checkMK monitoring using the
> > agents (for XS we've installed the CentOS rpm's) as well as SNMP. Works
> > reliable except we haven't written any checks for VM metrics so far.
> >
> > Am Freitag, den 16.10.2015, 21:25 +0000 schrieb Jeremy Peterson:
> > > We are looking at a new monitoring software for our corporate
> > environment. Management has requested that CloudStack and XenServer be
> > added to that monitoring software. One of the software titles we are
> > looking at is DataDogHQ.
> > >
> > > https://bigpanda.io/monitoringscape/
> > >
> > > Does anyone use a 3rd party software to monitor process's in your
> > cloudstack server farm and hypervisor?
> > >
> > > jeremy
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Rafael Weingärtner
>
Re: Cloudstack - Monitoring
Posted by Dave Dunaway <da...@gmail.com>.
That is what automation is for. lol. Enabling and configuring SNMP is not a
huge task. Even on a 1000+ devices.
On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 9:20 PM, Rafael Weingärtner <
rafaelweingartner@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jeremy,
>
> You said you were going to enable SNMP on your hosts. Out of curiosity,
> what is the size of your environment?
>
> That seems a pretty time consuming to enable SNMP in lots of servers.
> Despite the fact that you would have to manage and secure properly the SNMP
> into those servers.
>
> On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 9:34 PM, Jeremy Peterson <jp...@acentek.net>
> wrote:
>
> > I guess what i'm thinking is installing snmp on my server farm. I will
> > check ping hdd % and cpu usage.
> >
> > 2 LB's check status of haproxy service
> > 2 DB's check status of mysqld
> > 2 CSMAN's check status of cloudstack-managment
> > 1 CSTS jump box
> > 1 Deploy server for quick redeploy of a all of the above
> >
> > Now for XenServer does anyone monitor if it's running truly i installed
> it
> > and added it to cloudstack poked around here and there when I have issues
> > turn HA off when i need to maintenance a server to apply updates but i
> > don't currently monitor if the virtualization is running which i would
> like
> > to and check cpu usage.
> >
> > I do have alerts in CloudStack setup that emails me on those issues, but
> > managment wants to get everything under one roof to have graphing of
> usage
> > trends.
> >
> > Basically the host statistics in CloudStack sent out to a 3rd party would
> > be great.
> >
> > Jeremy
> > ________________________________________
> > From: Stephan Seitz <s....@secretresearchfacility.com>
> > Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2015 4:13 AM
> > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org
> > Subject: Re: Cloudstack - Monitoring
> >
> > We've added our acs infrastructure into our checkMK monitoring using the
> > agents (for XS we've installed the CentOS rpm's) as well as SNMP. Works
> > reliable except we haven't written any checks for VM metrics so far.
> >
> > Am Freitag, den 16.10.2015, 21:25 +0000 schrieb Jeremy Peterson:
> > > We are looking at a new monitoring software for our corporate
> > environment. Management has requested that CloudStack and XenServer be
> > added to that monitoring software. One of the software titles we are
> > looking at is DataDogHQ.
> > >
> > > https://bigpanda.io/monitoringscape/
> > >
> > > Does anyone use a 3rd party software to monitor process's in your
> > cloudstack server farm and hypervisor?
> > >
> > > jeremy
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Rafael Weingärtner
>
Re: Cloudstack - Monitoring
Posted by Rafael Weingärtner <ra...@gmail.com>.
Hi Jeremy,
You said you were going to enable SNMP on your hosts. Out of curiosity,
what is the size of your environment?
That seems a pretty time consuming to enable SNMP in lots of servers.
Despite the fact that you would have to manage and secure properly the SNMP
into those servers.
On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 9:34 PM, Jeremy Peterson <jp...@acentek.net>
wrote:
> I guess what i'm thinking is installing snmp on my server farm. I will
> check ping hdd % and cpu usage.
>
> 2 LB's check status of haproxy service
> 2 DB's check status of mysqld
> 2 CSMAN's check status of cloudstack-managment
> 1 CSTS jump box
> 1 Deploy server for quick redeploy of a all of the above
>
> Now for XenServer does anyone monitor if it's running truly i installed it
> and added it to cloudstack poked around here and there when I have issues
> turn HA off when i need to maintenance a server to apply updates but i
> don't currently monitor if the virtualization is running which i would like
> to and check cpu usage.
>
> I do have alerts in CloudStack setup that emails me on those issues, but
> managment wants to get everything under one roof to have graphing of usage
> trends.
>
> Basically the host statistics in CloudStack sent out to a 3rd party would
> be great.
>
> Jeremy
> ________________________________________
> From: Stephan Seitz <s....@secretresearchfacility.com>
> Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2015 4:13 AM
> To: users@cloudstack.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Cloudstack - Monitoring
>
> We've added our acs infrastructure into our checkMK monitoring using the
> agents (for XS we've installed the CentOS rpm's) as well as SNMP. Works
> reliable except we haven't written any checks for VM metrics so far.
>
> Am Freitag, den 16.10.2015, 21:25 +0000 schrieb Jeremy Peterson:
> > We are looking at a new monitoring software for our corporate
> environment. Management has requested that CloudStack and XenServer be
> added to that monitoring software. One of the software titles we are
> looking at is DataDogHQ.
> >
> > https://bigpanda.io/monitoringscape/
> >
> > Does anyone use a 3rd party software to monitor process's in your
> cloudstack server farm and hypervisor?
> >
> > jeremy
>
>
--
Rafael Weingärtner
Re: Cloudstack - Monitoring
Posted by Jeremy Peterson <jp...@acentek.net>.
I guess what i'm thinking is installing snmp on my server farm. I will check ping hdd % and cpu usage.
2 LB's check status of haproxy service
2 DB's check status of mysqld
2 CSMAN's check status of cloudstack-managment
1 CSTS jump box
1 Deploy server for quick redeploy of a all of the above
Now for XenServer does anyone monitor if it's running truly i installed it and added it to cloudstack poked around here and there when I have issues turn HA off when i need to maintenance a server to apply updates but i don't currently monitor if the virtualization is running which i would like to and check cpu usage.
I do have alerts in CloudStack setup that emails me on those issues, but managment wants to get everything under one roof to have graphing of usage trends.
Basically the host statistics in CloudStack sent out to a 3rd party would be great.
Jeremy
________________________________________
From: Stephan Seitz <s....@secretresearchfacility.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2015 4:13 AM
To: users@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: Re: Cloudstack - Monitoring
We've added our acs infrastructure into our checkMK monitoring using the
agents (for XS we've installed the CentOS rpm's) as well as SNMP. Works
reliable except we haven't written any checks for VM metrics so far.
Am Freitag, den 16.10.2015, 21:25 +0000 schrieb Jeremy Peterson:
> We are looking at a new monitoring software for our corporate environment. Management has requested that CloudStack and XenServer be added to that monitoring software. One of the software titles we are looking at is DataDogHQ.
>
> https://bigpanda.io/monitoringscape/
>
> Does anyone use a 3rd party software to monitor process's in your cloudstack server farm and hypervisor?
>
> jeremy
Re: Cloudstack - Monitoring
Posted by Stephan Seitz <s....@secretresearchfacility.com>.
We've added our acs infrastructure into our checkMK monitoring using the
agents (for XS we've installed the CentOS rpm's) as well as SNMP. Works
reliable except we haven't written any checks for VM metrics so far.
Am Freitag, den 16.10.2015, 21:25 +0000 schrieb Jeremy Peterson:
> We are looking at a new monitoring software for our corporate environment. Management has requested that CloudStack and XenServer be added to that monitoring software. One of the software titles we are looking at is DataDogHQ.
>
> https://bigpanda.io/monitoringscape/
>
> Does anyone use a 3rd party software to monitor process's in your cloudstack server farm and hypervisor?
>
> jeremy
Re: Cloudstack - Monitoring
Posted by Dag Sonstebo <Da...@shapeblue.com>.
+1 for Zenoss - I¹m not directly involved like Andrew, but I did a POC a
couple years back and was impressed with features, ease of use, etc.
Regards,
Dag Sonstebo
Cloud Architect
ShapeBlue
On 18/10/2015 18:13, "Andrew Kirch" <tr...@trelane.net> wrote:
>Depends on the DSLAM brand, but we support any SNMPv2-MIBs out of the box.
>We have 2 Ubiquiti ZenPacks submitted by the community, and you can extend
>Zenoss further using Nagios plugins, or by writing your own ZenPacks.
>
>If you have further questions feel free to contact me on my work e-mail
>akirch@zenoss.com, as I'm pretty sure this isn't the Zenoss-Advertising
>mailing list, and I don't want to overstep :)
>
>Andrew
>
>On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Jeremy Peterson <jp...@acentek.net>
>wrote:
>
>> Currently we are 4 hypervisors
>> With about 30 VM's between 18 VR's
>>
>> We are upgrading the corporate esx servers this year still so four more
>> servers will be moving to the CloudStack enviroment.
>>
>> CloudStack + XS = 0 licensing
>> ESX = $$$
>>
>> Like I mentioned before the VM's may or may not need monitoring as that
>> will only apply to us offering management to those customers.
>>
>> SaltStack is amazing and will do a lot of the deployment and automation
>> for us but yes Zenoss does look decent but I also need something that
>>can
>> check multiple DSLAM's, Valere's, even custom SNMP checks for Ubinquity
>> AP's being down.
>>
>> Jeremy
>> ________________________________________
>> From: Andrew Kirch <tr...@trelane.net>
>> Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2015 1:32 AM
>> To: users@cloudstack.apache.org
>> Subject: Re: Cloudstack - Monitoring
>>
>> I'm going to shamelessly plug Zenoss, we have ZenPacks for both
>>CloudStack,
>> and Xenserver which should give you deep monitoring of both.
>>
>> I say shameless, because I am the Zenoss Community Manager.
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 5:25 PM, Jeremy Peterson <jp...@acentek.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > We are looking at a new monitoring software for our corporate
>> > environment. Management has requested that CloudStack and XenServer
>>be
>> > added to that monitoring software. One of the software titles we are
>> > looking at is DataDogHQ.
>> >
>> > https://bigpanda.io/monitoringscape/
>> >
>> > Does anyone use a 3rd party software to monitor process's in your
>> > cloudstack server farm and hypervisor?
>> >
>> > jeremy
>> >
>>
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Re: Cloudstack - Monitoring
Posted by Andrew Kirch <tr...@trelane.net>.
Depends on the DSLAM brand, but we support any SNMPv2-MIBs out of the box.
We have 2 Ubiquiti ZenPacks submitted by the community, and you can extend
Zenoss further using Nagios plugins, or by writing your own ZenPacks.
If you have further questions feel free to contact me on my work e-mail
akirch@zenoss.com, as I'm pretty sure this isn't the Zenoss-Advertising
mailing list, and I don't want to overstep :)
Andrew
On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Jeremy Peterson <jp...@acentek.net>
wrote:
> Currently we are 4 hypervisors
> With about 30 VM's between 18 VR's
>
> We are upgrading the corporate esx servers this year still so four more
> servers will be moving to the CloudStack enviroment.
>
> CloudStack + XS = 0 licensing
> ESX = $$$
>
> Like I mentioned before the VM's may or may not need monitoring as that
> will only apply to us offering management to those customers.
>
> SaltStack is amazing and will do a lot of the deployment and automation
> for us but yes Zenoss does look decent but I also need something that can
> check multiple DSLAM's, Valere's, even custom SNMP checks for Ubinquity
> AP's being down.
>
> Jeremy
> ________________________________________
> From: Andrew Kirch <tr...@trelane.net>
> Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2015 1:32 AM
> To: users@cloudstack.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Cloudstack - Monitoring
>
> I'm going to shamelessly plug Zenoss, we have ZenPacks for both CloudStack,
> and Xenserver which should give you deep monitoring of both.
>
> I say shameless, because I am the Zenoss Community Manager.
>
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 5:25 PM, Jeremy Peterson <jp...@acentek.net>
> wrote:
>
> > We are looking at a new monitoring software for our corporate
> > environment. Management has requested that CloudStack and XenServer be
> > added to that monitoring software. One of the software titles we are
> > looking at is DataDogHQ.
> >
> > https://bigpanda.io/monitoringscape/
> >
> > Does anyone use a 3rd party software to monitor process's in your
> > cloudstack server farm and hypervisor?
> >
> > jeremy
> >
>
Re: Cloudstack - Monitoring
Posted by Jeremy Peterson <jp...@acentek.net>.
Currently we are 4 hypervisors
With about 30 VM's between 18 VR's
We are upgrading the corporate esx servers this year still so four more servers will be moving to the CloudStack enviroment.
CloudStack + XS = 0 licensing
ESX = $$$
Like I mentioned before the VM's may or may not need monitoring as that will only apply to us offering management to those customers.
SaltStack is amazing and will do a lot of the deployment and automation for us but yes Zenoss does look decent but I also need something that can check multiple DSLAM's, Valere's, even custom SNMP checks for Ubinquity AP's being down.
Jeremy
________________________________________
From: Andrew Kirch <tr...@trelane.net>
Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2015 1:32 AM
To: users@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: Re: Cloudstack - Monitoring
I'm going to shamelessly plug Zenoss, we have ZenPacks for both CloudStack,
and Xenserver which should give you deep monitoring of both.
I say shameless, because I am the Zenoss Community Manager.
On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 5:25 PM, Jeremy Peterson <jp...@acentek.net>
wrote:
> We are looking at a new monitoring software for our corporate
> environment. Management has requested that CloudStack and XenServer be
> added to that monitoring software. One of the software titles we are
> looking at is DataDogHQ.
>
> https://bigpanda.io/monitoringscape/
>
> Does anyone use a 3rd party software to monitor process's in your
> cloudstack server farm and hypervisor?
>
> jeremy
>
Re: Cloudstack - Monitoring
Posted by Andrew Kirch <tr...@trelane.net>.
I'm going to shamelessly plug Zenoss, we have ZenPacks for both CloudStack,
and Xenserver which should give you deep monitoring of both.
I say shameless, because I am the Zenoss Community Manager.
On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 5:25 PM, Jeremy Peterson <jp...@acentek.net>
wrote:
> We are looking at a new monitoring software for our corporate
> environment. Management has requested that CloudStack and XenServer be
> added to that monitoring software. One of the software titles we are
> looking at is DataDogHQ.
>
> https://bigpanda.io/monitoringscape/
>
> Does anyone use a 3rd party software to monitor process's in your
> cloudstack server farm and hypervisor?
>
> jeremy
>