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Logging Log-Analysis and Alerting for OPNFV-VSPERF

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VSPERF will have Alerting from the Monitoring component, and lacks alerting from the logs. As the next step, this project aims to use the same information - The logs - and create alerts than will be notified to VSPERF. The Trafficgenerators of the VSPERF will be the main consumers of these alerts.


Additional Information

Some Links:

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/dashboard-create-new-dashboard.html
https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/chapters/practical-alerting/
https://docs.google.com/document/d/199PqyG3UsyXlwieHaqbGiWVa8eMWi8zzAn0YfcApr8Q/preview

Tentative Process:

1. Learn about VSPERF
2. Install and run the OSS tools successfully.
3. Create sample Kibana Dashboard
4. Create sample Alert Rules.
5. Inspect the logs the tests have created
6. Build the Kibana dashboard to VSPERF's requirements & specifications
7. Create VSPERF specific alerts and send notifications.

Learning Objectives

Experience in real-world logging/monitoring/alerting domain.

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Experience in Authoring custom Alert-Rules.

Expected Outcomes

  1. Custom Kibana Dashboards.
  2. Custom Alert Notifications.

Relation to LF Networking 

OPNFV-VSPERF.

Education Level

Undergraduate

Skills

1. Python.

2. Yaml

3. Dashboard creation - handling different controls

Future plans

This project is related to larger "Performance Management" and "Analytics in Networking" . Hence, the gained experience will be very useful in the student is planning to pursue a career in these domains.

Preferred Hours and Length of Internship

Full-time (40 hours a week for 12 weeks during the summer)

Mentor(s) Names and Contact Info

Sridhar K. N. Rao sridhar.rao@spirent.com 

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