[OCTAVIA] How to monitor amphora

Trinh Nguyen dangtrinhnt at gmail.com
Tue Nov 27 00:44:30 UTC 2018


Hi Gaël,

The Searchlight team has submitted a blueprint to add support for Octavia
[1]. If it's something you're interested in, please let me know so I can
ping you for comments?

[1] https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2004383

Bests,

On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 3:46 PM Gaël THEROND <gael.therond at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I’ve taken some time to read your presentation and I have to say thank you
> for your wonderful work ! It’s pretty much complete and with code example
> which is really cool.
>
> It’s exactly what I was looking for.
> If I could just suggest one thing, it would be to give operators freedom
> to choose which logging and which metrics clients they want to use.
>
> Doing so would avoid having to rely on gnocchi as you would be able to
> choose the clients type at amphora build time and specify clients target at
> runtime using the amphora-agent.
>
> On another hand, it might we’ll be tricky to do so as everything is
> namespaced into the amphora instance.
>
> As suggested using gnocchi to store HAProxy logs may well be the easiest
> short path actually, I’m wondering if it would be possible for searchlight
> to use that logs at some point.
>
> Anyway, thanks for the awesome job.
> For now I’ll keep it simple and just use the API for basic status.
>
> Kind regards,
> G.
>
> Le lun. 26 nov. 2018 à 04:23, Sa Pham <saphi070 at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
>> yes. I have discussed with the Octavia team. PTL Johnson has suggested me
>> to use gnocchi to store octavia amphora metric.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 3:16 PM Gaël THEROND <gael.therond at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi! Thanks for this material, I’ll have a look at it.
>>>
>>> As our philosophy at work is to always push upstream all our
>>> patchs/features or bug fixes, I won’t modify and keep the source code on
>>> our own and if we need further features like that I think we will rather
>>> push for a Blueprint with all required commits.
>>>
>>> Did you already discussed that topic with the Octavia team?
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot.
>>>
>>> Le mer. 21 nov. 2018 à 09:12, Sa Pham <saphi070 at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> In Vietnam Openinfra Days 2018, I have a presentation about monitoring
>>>> and logging for Octavia Amphora.  We have to customize octavia source code
>>>> to do this. I send you my presentation slide:
>>>>
>>>> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dHXExEKrHDg4Cf3D1fBeulLDW_G-txLr/view?usp=sharing
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 3:05 PM Gaël THEROND <gael.therond at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>>
>>>>> As already discussed I had to test Octavia as our corporate
>>>>> LoadBalancer solution and it was a success.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank to everyone on this list that assisted me and especially Michael
>>>>> Octavia is fully working and without weird nightmare glitches.
>>>>>
>>>>> Now that I validated the technical part of my project, I need to enter
>>>>> more operationals questions such as what’s the best way to monitor and log
>>>>> amphora?
>>>>>
>>>>> I would like to be able to get a monitoring and logging agent
>>>>> installed on the amphora in order to get proper metrics about what’s going
>>>>> on with the LoadBalancer, is it fully cpu loaded? Is it using all network
>>>>> resources available, are the file descriptors near the initial limits? How
>>>>> much xxx HTTP return code the loadBalancer is facing and send those logs to
>>>>> an ELK or something similar.
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you know if that something that I could achieve by adding more
>>>>> elements to the image at DIB time or are there any other better
>>>>> best-practices that I should be aware of ?
>>>>>
>>>>> As Octavia is creating a namespace for each HAProxy process, I am
>>>>> wandering if it’s even possible.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks a lot for your hard work guys.
>>>>>
>>>>> Kind regards,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Sa Pham Dang
>>>> Cloud RnD Team - VCCloud
>>>> Phone/Telegram: 0986.849.582
>>>> Skype: great_bn
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>> --
>> Sa Pham Dang
>> Cloud RnD Team - VCCloud
>> Phone/Telegram: 0986.849.582
>> Skype: great_bn
>>
>>
>>

-- 
*Trinh Nguyen*
*www.edlab.xyz <https://www.edlab.xyz>*
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