Erk. I found this sitting around as a draft: Today’s normality is tomorrow’s abnormality Last time, we looked at a disk usage graph. This week, we’ll look at CPU usage or something else that goes up and down instead of just up, up, up. What’s the problem here? The problem is that it’s very hard [...]
I took much longer to post this than intended. Not that I expect anyone to have been sitting on the edge of their chair waiting for it, but still… It’s been more than month since my last post, and not a darned thing has changed. Monitoring today still sucks. In the last installment I ranted [...]
Monitoring today sucks. Big time. It sucks so bad, it’s not even funny. The amount of time spent configuring stuff, dealing with problems when it’s already too late, and the amount of things your monitoring system could be monitoring, but isn’t, are all staggering. I’ll be spending a couple of posts whining about this. Who [...]
Seeing as the election for the OpenStack Project Policy Board is going on, it seems only fair to announce that I quite soon no longer will be working for Rackspace. Instead, I will be working (still on OpenStack) for Nebula. If this is material to your vote, I apologise for not disclosing this earlier, but [...]
I’d like to take a couple of minutes of your time to talk about testing of OpenStack. Swift has always had very good test coverage, and Glance also does pretty well, so I’ll mostly be focused on Nova. (Psst… If you can’t be bothered to read the whole thing, just skip down to the how [...]
