May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
7h 6m
English
In this section, we will only partially use resource usage monitoring. In a later section, we will cover it in more depth as it relates to capacity planning. However, the purpose of resource usage monitoring is that an operator can, at will, retrieve the amount of resources being used by not only one user, but also a tenant, or the entire cloud through the OpenStack APIs. This monitoring does not have to be performed in real time. In most instances, resource monitoring is an activity which is done with data that has been collected over a specific period of time. Later in this chapter, we will cover the Ceilometer project, which is the metering project for OpenStack.
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