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RE: [Xen-users] domU Metrics Collection

To: 'Ben Rockwood' <benr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, xen-users <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] domU Metrics Collection
From: Dave Scott <Dave.Scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:43:08 +0000
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Hi,
 
> I've had trouble trying to determine the best way to extract per-domain
> metrics in a programmatic, or at the least an easily parsable, means.
> 
> That is to say: how do you find per domain cpu, memory, and diskio
> metrics without using 'xm top' or looking inside the domain itself?
> I'd
> like to build some agents for monitoring purposes without having to
> modify or install software in the guests.

If you were using XCP then you could download/monitor per-VM CPU, memory, IO 
metrics in RRD format, which is fairly easy to parse. More details are here:

http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XAPI_RRDs

Cheers,
Dave

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