Beats: [Feature] - Metricbeat for libvirt/KVM

[rikatz]

This is a feature request:

It would be great if Metricbeat could collect libvirt stats (primary domains, but other stats are welcome).

A Go library I've found and may help:

• https://github.com/digitalocean/go-libvirt

Thanks!

[ruflin]

@rikatz Would be great to have support for this. Interested to contribute a module? :-)

[rikatz]

@ruflin I've talked to @amandahla and she will take a look at this, after she finishes the RabbitMQ module ;)

[ruflin]

Awesome. 🎉

[amandahla]

@rikatz I'll try this one, ok?
https://github.com/libvirt/libvirt-go

[rikatz]

@amandahla Not sure it's a good idea, as this depends on system libraries (as libvirt.so, libvirt-qemu.so and libvirt-lxc.so) and goes against the 'independency' of metricbeats.

This is way I've suggested to use the go-libvirt from digitalocean :) it seems its independent of system libs and programs.

Tks

[amandahla]

@rikatz Ok, just mind the warning "All packages contained in this repository should be treated as pre-production software with an unstable API."... ;-)

[exekias]

Awesome you are working on this! As for the library, yes, we always look for alternatives having multi OS support in mind. I suggest you look around, https://github.com/digitalocean/go-libvirt doesn't look bad anyway, you can flag this module as experimental in first versions

cheers!

[amandahla]

Waiting for this PR so I can start working here. :-)

[FROSADO]

Hello, there is any progress on this feature?

[amandahla]

@FROSADO I'll try to remember where did I stop here. Any help/opinions are welcome. 😄

[jsoriano]

@amandahla @rikatz now that #6265 has been merged, should we clouse this issue or do you want to leave this open to track the progress on other possible metric sets for kvm?

[amandahla]

@jsoriano I think that we can close this issue and open new ones for other metric sets :)

[jsoriano]

Perfect :+1: closing this.