How to get VCPU percentage of an instance

asked 2015-09-23 01:03:36 -0500

chamaraT
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updated 2015-09-23 06:50:08 -0500

vincent-legoll

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Hi all,

Is there any way to get the CPU usage percentage (User space) for a given instance with out login to the system, for the purpose of shutting down/terminating unused/idle instances. Maybe via virsh or some libvirt API ?

Thanks, ChamaraT

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answered 2015-12-10 23:22:10 -0500

chamaraT
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I used Ceilometer data and implemented and it was sucessfull

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answered 2015-09-23 01:47:03 -0500

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Hi,

I have the same type of concern :

I've developped a piece of software, using C language libvirt APIs, running on RHEL KVM host. It collects a lot of metrics counters from the KVM Hypervisor.
May I use it on a host part of an OpenStack infra ?

Thanks for help.

J.P. Ribeauville

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answered 2015-09-23 06:47:25 -0500

vincent-legoll

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updated 2015-09-23 07:13:53 -0500

Are you sure that instances that do not consume CPU at the time you are watching are useless ?

(hint, hint: this is a multifaceted question)

I.e. your question is a valid one, but that is probably the wrong question to ask.

EDIT: But if the user set this VM up for a service that consume very little CPU but which is critical for him ?

You should have a look at over-subscription, so that you can launch more instances than you actually have physical resources in your compute node(s), if you have a lot of this kind of instances running.

in /etc/nova/nova.conf:

cpu_allocation_ratio
disk_allocation_ratio
ram_allocation_ratio

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Plan is to monitor (If possible) the CPU usage continuously lower than given percentage for a given time (may be 24 hours) and to take the actions due to the resource limitation which we have to deal with.

chamaraT ( 2015-09-23 06:55:15 -0500 )edit

We have already over used the resources using over committing , now we want to 1. shut down instances which is not used based on may be CPU usage ....(Which is looking a good method), 2. terminate (May be 7 days after shutdown) unused instances.

chamaraT ( 2015-10-01 06:30:48 -0500 )edit

Maybe libvirt can give you this info, don't know, sorry...