Casting light on (Bare) Metal: Meet the Ironic Prometheus Exporter!
Channel: OpenInfra Foundation
Date: 2020-10-27

Special thanks to our 2020 Open Infrastructure Summit sponsors for making the event possible: Canonical (Ubuntu), Huawei, VEXXHOST, Cisco, Tencent Cloud, InMotion Hosting, Mirantis, Red Hat, Trilio, VanillaStack.io, and ZTE!
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Baseboard Management Controllers (BMCs) can provide useful monitoring data about physical nodes. This information is beneficial to operators, allowing them to detect issues and take actions when something is wrong (e.g., High temperatures can cause unexpected node shutdowns and you can define different alerts). With the Train release a new way to use this data was born, please welcome the Ironic Prometheus Exporter (IPE)!

Ironic builds upon the principles of open source and open standards to enable support for a diverse ecosystem of hardware from a variety of vendors. By using the IPE, you will have multiple metrics for each physical node (e.g., temperature, power) available on Prometheus, as long as the vendor supports IPMI or Redfish protocol.


Speaker: Iury Gregory Melo Ferreira
Track: Private & Hybrid Cloud