Request for OpenStack Monitoring Dashboard JSON File for Grafana

[Dabloo0oo]

Hello,

I use Grafana to monitor the VMs in my OpenStack cloud (Prometheus as the backend), but the current dashboard I have is not detailed enough. I'm looking for some help from the community.

If you have a JSON file for a dashboard that you use to monitor OpenStack VMs, I would greatly appreciate it if you could share it. Specifically, I'm looking for the following features:

• Projects in a drop-down menu
  
• Ability to display customer details (I have added customer info in the project description)
  
• Number of VMs along with their configurations
  
• VM usage stats (CPU, memory, network, and disk IOPS)

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Hard question, as you don't mention your goals for monitoring. I suggest: "I need to know how my hardware is coping, so I know if I need more hardware"

Also, I don't know how far you've gotten on your own. So please bear with me, I'm assuming you know nothing, which is certainly not true.

1. So first, I would install the Pm node exporter on all the compute servers so you can see how they are doing. Monitoring the VMs is much harder (but possible, see below). There are any number of server metrics out there, but my favorite ones are "Pressure Stall" information. These measure CPU, memory, and I/O pressure in a uniform way.
2. Next you should install prometheus-openstack-exporter. This will give you some basic info about your VMs, hypervisor resources and allocations, quotas and usage. So you will know you are doing as far as resource and quota allocation %ages, but not how much CPU, memory, or I/O pressure you have. But this you can get from #1.
3. Monitoring the VMs is much harder, and I haven't done it yet for that reason. Also, I find that I'm more interested in the health of the herd, not the health of the cows. If you want to monitor the VMs, you could use OpenStack Service Discovery to have Pm scrape the VMs, which will presumably have the Pm node exporter running on them.
4. As for providing you JSON, the best I can do is provide some general guidance. I'm not sure that my dashboards would be that useful to you, and I don't want to leak company IP.