[ovirt-users] [ovirt-devel] oVirt 3.6 Feature: Cumulative Network Usage Statistics

[Dan Kenigsberg]

On Sun, Feb 01, 2015 at 03:39:55PM +0100, Joop wrote:
> On 1-2-2015 10:21, Lior Vernia wrote:
> >
> > So the problem isn't grave (though I'll document those cases in the
> > feature page), and the solution won't be trivial. Would you really want
> > vdsm to track this data? And then engine would have to collect it before
> > a VM is run or a vNIC is hot-plugged?...
> >
> Using Zabbix as a monitoring system instead of letting vdsm do it solves
> most of not all of your problems. Zabbix does have a proxy daemon which
> can buffer data when either hosts or vms go down and send that to the
> main server as soon as the link is restored. Thins work OK as long as
> the agent or proxy isn't down and should thus not be part of the cluster.

I'm not against shedding off (some of) vdsm monitoring chores, but I
don't see how this is fundamentally different from caching the
statistics in vdsm.