masakari-introspectiveinstancemonitor

Monitor Overview

The masakari-introspectiveinstancemonitor provides Virtual Machine HA for OpenStack clouds by automatically detecting the system-level failure events via QEMU Guest Agent. If it detects VM heartbeat failure events, it sends notifications to the masakari-api.

How does it work?

• libvirt and QEMU Guest Agent are used as the underlying protocol for messaging to and from VM.

  • The host-side qemu-agent sockets are used to detemine whether VMs are configured with QEMU Guest Agent.

  • qemu-guest-ping is used as the monitoring heartbeat.

• For the future release, we can pass through arbitrary guest agent commands to check the health of the applications inside a VM.

Related configurations

This section in masakarimonitors.conf shows an example of how to configure the monitor.

[libvirt]
# Override the default libvirt URI.
connection_uri = qemu:///system

[introspectiveinstancemonitor]
# Guest monitoring interval of VM status (in seconds).
# * The value should not be too low as there should not be false negative
# * for reporting QEMU_GUEST_AGENT failures
# * VM needs time to do powering-off.
# * guest_monitoring_interval should be greater than
# * the time to SHUTDOWN VM gracefully.
guest_monitoring_interval = 10

# Guest monitoring timeout (in seconds).
guest_monitoring_timeout = 2

# Failure threshold before sending notification.
guest_monitoring_failure_threshold = 3

# The file path of qemu guest agent sock.
qemu_guest_agent_sock_path = \
/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/org\.qemu\.guest_agent\..*\.instance-.*\.sock