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oneInsight: A 2D-Load Visualization Addon for OpenNebula-Managed Hosts

Rodrigue Chakode

Apr 7, 2014

I’m pleased to announce oneInsight, a visualization addon for OpenNebula that allows users to have at-a-glance, an insight of the load of managed hosts. It provides various kinds of load mappings, that currently include the following metrics:

  • CPU used by OpenNebula-managed virtual machines;
  • Memory used by managed virtual machines;
  • Effective CPU used by all system processes, including processes outside of managed virtual machines;
  • Effective memory used by all system processes.

Here is a screenshot showing an overview of CPU used.

Screenshot of oneInsight

Benefits

oneInsight enables many benefits, as well for cloud operators than for business managers:

  • Provides a simple and comprehensible load charting that allows you to have at-a-glance an accurate insight on how servers are loaded, so to let you plan migrations and capacity upgrading if necessary;
  • Provides, via tooltip and popup, details about each server in zero or one click;
  • High class visualization that saves you from command line output;
  • Lightweight HTML/Javascript stack that can be deployed on any server within your IT infrastructure, just need a valid OpenNebula user account and a network access to OpenNebula server.

How oneInsight Works

oneInsight works out-of-the-box on the vast majority of Linux operating systems, subject to have the following tools installed:

  • curl command line interface
  • The Bash interpreter
  • The cron time-based job scheduler
  • A Web server like Apache and nginx, even the python SimpleHTTPServer module just works fine

Read the documentation to get started.

What Next & Contributions

oneInsight is a new project, and there is a lot of things concerning data visualization in OpenNebula. Contributors are welcome, we apply the Github Pull Request model for contributions in code and documentation. Stay tuned.

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