About Monasca

Monasca is an open-source monitoring-as-a-service solution under the OpenStack “Big Tent”. It aims to be highly performant, scalable, and fault-tolerant.

Features

Core principles:

• multi-tenant
• highly scalable
• performant
• fault-tolerant

Features:

• accepts arbitrary metrics with key/value pair metadata (dimensions)
• alarming and notification engines output to email, PagerDuty, webhooks, Slack, and HipChat

Community

Monasca discussion usually occurs on IRC at OFTC #openstack-monasca

Many major companies are also involved in developing or deploying Monasca:

• Hewlett-Packard Enterprise
• Charter Communications
• Fujitsu
• Cisco
• Cray
• Rackspace
• SAP
• NEC
• SUSE
• StackHPC

Presentations

Several overviews of Monasca can be found at the following:

• Monasca Bootcamp - Austin OpenStack Summit, 2016
• Introducing Using Monasca for Production OpenStack Monitoring - Tokyo OpenStack Summit, 2015
• Monasca Deep Dive - Paris OpenStack Summit, 2014
• ELK and Monasca Crossing: Logging as an OpenStack Service - Paris OpenStack Summit, 2014

Licensing

Monasca is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.