Keeping Track of Logs - ELK and OpenStack

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
- Carl Sagan

You might be tempted to realize the importance of a complete suite of monitoring solutions for your private OpenStack cloud environment. In Chapter 10, Monitoring and Troubleshooting OpenStack - Running a Healthy OpenStack Cluster demonstrates a mixed approach by adopting an inbox telemetry solution to work in tandem with an external monitoring tool such as Nagios for more advanced monitoring purposes. On the other hand, we have mainly focused on the first part of the equation, namely exposing alerts and warnings. The second part of the equation involves how to react to issues. Monitoring systems cannot give you strong advice if they are not properly adjusted and alerts are not set carefully. Troubleshooting...