MonitorVMs

Description

A script which fetches various metrics of VM instances of different Cloud providers and send those metrics to a Kafka cluster.

Supported providers:

• GCP
• Azure

Input file

You will need to add a file named config.json.
Check the file ressources/config_template.json to see how to build it.

Using templates

You can use the default templates or create new ones with different metrics enabled.

Account permissions

Service account for each providers requires different permissions. Check the file resources/account_permissions.txt to see those permissions.

Requirements

First install Python with the version in the file runtime.txt.
Make sure you install pip package manager with it.
Set up the virtual environnement and install all the requirements:

python -m pip install venv
python -m venv venv
./venv/Scrips/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Execution

Main script

Run the following command:

python main.py

A message will appear: Press any key to stop....

Consume messages

Run the following command (if you do this in another terminal you will need to run the activate script again):

python test_consumer.py

You should see the messages appear.

Debug

All the application logs are available in the debug.log file.