Setting up Apache Karaf Decanter to monitor OpenDaylight
Apache Karaf provides a monitoring and alerting solution called Apache Karaf Decanter. OpenDaylight users can configure this system to provide their deployments with an easy-to-read status dashboard and take advantage of advanced capabilities such as Service Level Agreement (SLA) alerting.
Note
As of OpenDaylight Beryllium, Decanter support is experimental. Platform level monitoring is possible; application specific monitoring requires custom Collectors (and/or configurations) and Kibana dashboard updates (Kibana is a browser-based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch).
Getting ready
The ingredients of this recipe include an OpenDaylight distribution kit, web browser, access to a JDK, and a source code editor. Sample configuration(s) for this recipe is available at:
https://github.com/jgoodyear/OpenDaylightCookbook/tree/master/chapter10/chapter10-recipe9
How to do it...
As OpenDaylight is effectively a custom Apache Karaf distribution...