Browbeat ships with a Rally plugin which integrates PBench, this marriage of tools allows us to develop many low-level tests. Integrating PBench into Browbeat opens the doors for the potential to orchestrate NFV workloads in the future.
Join us at the OpenStack Summit Barcelona and learn how to take the wizardry out of OpenStack performance and scale testing with Browbeat. Tuesday, October 25th 2:15-2:55pm in P1 room 112. Learn how to get started with Browbeat, relevant performance/scale issues and metrics, future roadmap and a whole lot more. Continue reading
OpenStack Mitaka is out the door and it is time to start looking at OpenStack Newton. OpenStack Newton brings changes to how Neutron is configured out of the box, for example, of_interface driver will switch from ofctl to native. To read more about how things have changed visit, Unreleased Notes. We want to measure how these changes could impact Neutrons API Performance.
With the arrival of Gnocchi in Tripleo deployed OpenStack Clouds, we decided it would be a good time to develop some tooling and tests to help characterize OpenStack Telemetry services with Gnocchi as a backend. Continue reading
Data is power in the world of performance engineering. Be it test results, system metrics, tunable knobs or record shattering benchmarks, data is everywhere. Read on to know how we at Red Hat are leveraging the power of Elasticsearch with Browbeat to lead the next revolution in performance engineering. Continue reading
We now hold regular upstream IRC meetings in #openstack-browbeat on irc.freenode.net every Wednesday at 11am EDT / 4pm BST. You can find the latest meeting notes and action items here, courtesy of meetbot. We’re going to try to do this on a weekly basis. Users, contributors and interested parties always welcome.
Introduced in a recent commit, the Browbeat Ansible playbooks used to deploy the ELK stack now support Fluentd as a backend logging option. You can now take advantage of the logging_backend variable in install/group_vars/all.yml to choose Fluentd over Logstash.
