Monitoring

Nuvla provides a dedicated API resource for monitoring cloud activities.

Refreshed continuously (~every minute), data gets collected from all the configured clouds. The monitored data is then assembled to include for each virtual machines, the following:

• vCPU
• RAM
• Disk
• Service offer

This information is collected for both cloud resources provisioned via Nuvla and provisioned directly to the different clouds (e.g. API, portal, CLI), by-passing Nuvla. This means that Nuvla provides a unified global view over all compute resources deployed, independently of it being used as the deployment engine or not.

Further, the monitoring resource inherits the basic CIMI functionality, which means it contains specific and precise ACLs, such that only specific users, groups and organization members with the appropriate rights have access to this information.

This resource is key for other new features, such as the Accounting feature.

The REST resource providing this functionality is called virtual-machine and can be used, for example, to query the following information:

• Count all virtual machines
• Count all virtual machines belonging to a give user (requires privileged rights)
• Count all virtual machines launched directly with the cloud, by-passing Nuvla
• Simulate what virtual machines a given user sees (requires privileged rights)
• Group currently running virtual machines, by billing period (e.g. billed by minute vs hour)
• List all virtual machines belonging to a given deployment
• Count of running virtual machines, grouped by cloud

From the list above, priviledged rights include administration rights (super user), as well as group and organization owners.