[libvirt] Performance statistics

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 02:31:29PM +0200, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 02:01:02PM +0200, James Brackinshaw wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Is it possible to get at the (historical) performance data provided by
> > libvirtd? Is it stored for a period of time, or only available to
> > clients polling it?
> 
>   Libvirtd doesn't store any, you really need to poll at the frequency
> you consider appropriate,

FYI, you can use 3rd party monitoring software with a libvirt data
collection plugin. We have written plugins for collectd, munin and
nagios - it is trivially to do the same for more monitoring apps
if one of those doesn't suit your needs

Daniel
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