[libvirt] Performance statistics

[James Brackinshaw]

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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

Great :) Saves me writing one then!