Metrics Collection

Proposer

• Adam Israel

Type

Feature

Target MDG/TF

VCA, DevOps, SO

Description

Operators prefer to make data-driven decisions. To aid this, I propose that we begin collecting operational metrics from VNFs that make them available, via push (collectd, statsd) or pull (prometheus, etc).

This metric data should be collected to a central data store. Once collected, reports can be generated for the operator to view, and operational rules can be defined with regard to notifications, auto-scaling and auto-healing.

Demo or definition of done

• Selection of supported collection method(s)
• Creation of an OSM VNF METRICS charm layer to aid metrics collection
• The option to install metric collection during the installation process.
• Exposing a metrics dashboard (if supported by the supported collection method(s), or the definition of of one or more reports to view relevant metrics dtaa.