[libvirt-users] Monitoring and statistics through libvirt

[Daniel Veillard]

On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 03:47:23PM +0200, Tomi wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> is it possible to monitor and gather statistics in realtime (CPU,
> memory, HDD, network, ... - something like dstat) of guest systems
> with libvirt through console from host system (KVM based)? If yes, do
> those guests need to be created through libvirt? Thanks for your help
> and time.

  look at
  virDomainBlockStats/virDomainInterfaceStats/virDomainMemoryStats
in the library API, as well as the equivalent commands in the virsh
command line tool domblkstat/domifstat/dommemstat
And sure libvirt must know about the domain to be able to monitor it.

Daniel

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