Monitoring the per project and per user bandwidth

In the first recipe, we looked at the monitoring of resource utilization for a VM. In a cloud shared by multiple tenants and users, it is important to gather information about the utilization of the resources by a user or by the whole project. In this recipe, you will learn how to use the Ceilometer client to monitor the network bandwidth utilization by a tenant or project and an individual user of OpenStack.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you will need the following information:

  • The SSH login credentials for a node where the OpenStack client packages are installed
  • A shell RC file that initializes the environment variables for CLI
  • The ID of the OpenStack tenant and user

How to do it…

The following steps ...

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