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Re: [Xen-API] Which API for Xen performance metrics

To: Vikas Aggarwal <vikas04@xxxxxxxxx>, "xen-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-API] Which API for Xen performance metrics
From: Mike McClurg <mike.mcclurg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:08:51 +0100
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On 10/19/2011 10:50 PM, Vikas Aggarwal wrote:
Thanks Mike -

I went through the docs below, but is there a way to list out all the
performance metrics available for showing the performance of the base
XenServer (not the virtual machines). I am getting cpu, memory, disk, but we
seem to get a lot more metrics from VMware for example, metrics that seem to
give health information of how the base hypervisor is performing.


Hi Vikas,

On one of your hosts, try doing a 'xe host-datasource-list host=<blah>' and 'xe vm-datasource-list vm=<blah>'. This will show you a list of all the datasources that can be recorded as RRDs. Not all of them are enabled by default, which is probably why you didn't see everything you expected. I have no idea whether we capture the same metrics as VMWare do, but hopefully the ones we do capture will be enough for you.

Mike

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