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Monitoring for OpenStack - A practical HOWTO with Sensu

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ATTENTION: This playbook is in the process of being fully released on github and may not work as-is. It is also very RHEL-centric although it will likely work on Centos/RDO as well. Please bear with me as I make this more useable. Thank you. Contacts Vincent Cojot Contributors Graeme Gillis Gaetan Trellu Alexandre Maumene Cyril Lopez Gaël Lambert Guillaume coré Description Introduction As of OSP7/OSP8, RHEL OSP uses the tripleo upstream code to deploy Openstack using a minimal (but critical) Openstack called the 'undercloud'. [1] I won't go into the specifics of this kind of deployment but suffice it to say that the most simple OSP setup instantly becomes, well... quite 'convoluted'. At the same time, all of the different subsystems, nodes and endpoints are deployed without alerting, monitoring and graphing, leaving it to the customer to deploy his/her monitoring framework on top of OpenStack. Some simple alerting and mo