This document discusses monitoring tools for cloud environments and introduces Zenoss as a holistic monitoring solution. It highlights Zenoss' powerful plugins called ZenPacks that provide APIs and monitoring capabilities for various cloud platforms including CloudStack, OpenStack, hypervisors like ESX, KVM and Xen, and cloud services from AWS. Examples of metrics monitored for CloudStack and OpenStack with ZenPacks include network usage, memory usage, object load averages and images/flavors. Resources for getting started with Zenoss are also provided.

1. Monitoring & Cloud
Zenoss BoF @ LISA 2011, Boston
Simon Jakesch, simon@zenoss.com

2. State of Affairs
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Nagios, collectd, Ganglia, Splunk, Logstash
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lack of APIs, lack of automation plugins
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low level
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boss and frontlines?
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3. Why Zenoss
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holistic
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something for everyone
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powerful plugins (ZenPacks)
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APIs
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4. Dashboard
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7. Cloud Landscape
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Hypervisors: ESX, KVM, Xen, Hyper-V*...
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Platforms: cloudstack, OpenStack,
vCloud/vSphere
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XaaS: AWS, Cloud Foundry
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8. Cloudstack ZenPack
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network usage, memory usage, IP space
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native API
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all the extras
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13. OpenStackSwift and OpenStack
ZenPack
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Async Pending
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Object Quarantine
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Object Load Averages
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Images, Flavors
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14. Starting & Resources
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http://docs.zenoss.org/
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http://community.zenoss.org/community/zenpacks
(Google ZenPacks)
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http://github.com/zenoss
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http://community.zenoss.org/community/download
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