Belka

A faithful companion for your OpenStack Cloud

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Belka is your tool to explore your OpenStack based cloud and return valuable machine readable statistics.

Features

Compute

Belka will query your Nova cluster to find the following statistics per hypervisor:

  • memory_mb
  • current_workload
  • vcpus
  • running_vms
  • vcpus_used
  • memory_mb_used
  • hypervisor_hostname

It can also summarize this information for the entire cluster.

Object Storage

Belka can query your Swift cluster to find the following statistics per tenant:

  • containers
  • objects
  • bytes

It can also summarize this information for the entire cluster.

Usage

Belka can be used as follows:

$ belka --help
usage: belka [--version] [-v] [--log-file LOG_FILE] [-q] [-h] [--debug]

belka

optional arguments:
  --version            show program's version number and exit
  -v, --verbose        Increase verbosity of output. Can be repeated.
  --log-file LOG_FILE  Specify a file to log output. Disabled by default.
  -q, --quiet          suppress output except warnings and errors
  -h, --help           show this help message and exit
  --debug              show tracebacks on errors

Commands:
  compute        Query compute nodes for statistics
  help           print detailed help for another command
  objectstorage  Query object storage for usage statistics`

Installation

Storage requires a user that has the keystone "ResellerAdmin" role. You can add this to your "admin" user with the following command:

$ keystone user-role-add --user admin --role ResellerAdmin --tenant admin

License

Copyright (c) 2013 Solinea, Inc. (code@solinea.com)

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.