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mike smith wrote:
> I am trying to find out if vm and host %cpu and %memory utilzation can
> be extracted to external repository from openstack for all vms and
> hosts, like pulling data from vcenter for vmware? Has anybody done
> something like this?

Mike,

Have you reviewed the capabilities which Ceilometer[0] provides? That 
would be a good place to start for guest-level metrics.

For host-level metrics, there is no canonical 'OpenStack way' to do 
this, but there are a myriad of tried and true methods (e.g. sar[1]).

Regards,

Richard Raseley

SysOps Engineer
Puppet Labs

[0] - https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Ceilometer

[1] - http://linux.die.net/man/1/sar