Monitoring virtual machines and containers with VacMon

At the start of 2017, GridPP deployed VacMon, a new monitoring system suitable for recording and visualising the usage of virtual machines and containers at multiple sites. The system uses short JSON messages transmitted by logical machine lifecycle managers such as Vac and Vcycle. These are directe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McNab Andrew
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: EDP Sciences 2019-01-01
Series:EPJ Web of Conferences
Online Access:https://www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epjconf/pdf/2019/19/epjconf_chep2018_07033.pdf
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Summary:At the start of 2017, GridPP deployed VacMon, a new monitoring system suitable for recording and visualising the usage of virtual machines and containers at multiple sites. The system uses short JSON messages transmitted by logical machine lifecycle managers such as Vac and Vcycle. These are directed to a VacMon logging service which records the messages in an Elasticsearch database. The records can be viewed graphically using the VacMon web portal, with selections based on time ranges, virtual organisations, sites, subclusters within sites, or individual hypervisors.
ISSN:2100-014X