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December 11, 2018

• conferences?
  • Barometer was presented during the LFN reception last night at Kubecon by Leif Madsen (Lightning Talk Nodes below)
  • Need to get feedback from Leif
  • http://netsoft2019.ieee-netsoft.org/authors/
  • http://monitorama.com/#cfp
• demo?
• release this week
• hack fest week of June 10th

Lightning Talk Notes

• What is Barometer?
  • A project for building a scalable metrics platform for NFV environments and enables the monitoring of infrastructure that hosts our virtual network functions (VNFs).
  • We can monitor platform components like CPU, memory, load, cache, thermals, fan speeds, voltages and machine check exceptions
  • We’re including both the tools such as collectd and the installation utilities along with the definition of metrics and events that are critical for NFV infrastructure monitoring, because the tools without definitions is not a solution.
  • Focus is on collection of metrics, not necessarily the storage or analysis of data. We leave that up to higher level orchestration systems to leverage the data for business logic and decision making. We can leverage things like machine learning and big data analytics to provide proactive changes rather than reactive (traditional monitoring), but our involvement in that is at the collection of metrics and events.
  • Standards involvement -- TST_008 / IFA_027
• Why use barometer?
  • Leverages collectd for metrics and events gathering. It’s robust with a strong upstream community and has been around for several years, meaning that it’s a stable application to build from with a lot of functionality.
  • Extensible through the plugin framework, and we’ve been adding functionality over the last several months to solve for use cases that weren’t previously solved for.
  • Can be used wherever Linux is available, including whitebox switches and routers.
• What are we solving for?
  • Providing an implementation of collectd in cloud platform environments that are implementing for NFV so that we can find deficiencies and further enhance collectd through the plugin system
• Who is using barometer?
  • Red Hat is leveraging the work done in the barometer project within the service assurance framework in order to provide the various metrics and events required by telco operators, edge providers, cloud providers, and other highly available environments.
  • Used by both OPNFV Yardstick for test analysis and OPNFV Bottlenecks
• How can I use barometer?
  • Barometer is being packaged as a Docker container, so it’s easy to install into your environment without a lot of risk.
  • Also have influxdb container image to show an implementation with data storage

December 04, 2018

• Discussed briefly: http://netsoft2019.ieee-netsoft.org/authors/

• collectd meetup Jan 31/Feb 01 Brussels

  • https://www.betacowork.com/

• extended ovs metrics merged in collectd https://github.com/collectd/collectd/commit/b478f85d30f17cdb7c40bff2bb50d0f721d3b6fd

• collecting metrics from bonded interfaces also merged: https://github.com/collectd/collectd/commit/490e3b265cb21514447a32771c49f708efa28f6b

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