What is Browbeat?

April 20, 2016April 20, 2016 Will Foster Browbeat

Browbeat is a performance tuning and analysis tool for OpenStack. Browbeat is free, Open Source software.

Analyze and tune your Cloud for optimal performance.
Create Rally workloads for performance and scale testing.
Automate deployment of common data analysis tools.

Network Performance : Rally-Pbench-uperf integration

March 23, 2017March 23, 2017 Joe Talerico - Principal Performance Engineer Browbeat

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.

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Taking the Wizardry out of OpenStack Performance with Browbeat

October 21, 2016October 26, 2016 Will Foster Browbeat, Development barcelona, Browbeat, Development, openstack performance, openstack summit, scale, talk

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 Newton vs Mitaka : Neutron API Performance

September 16, 2016September 27, 2016 Joe Talerico - Principal Performance Engineer Browbeat, Development Neutron

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.

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Performance Testing OpenStack Telemetry – Ceilometer and Gnocchi

September 12, 2016September 16, 2016 akrzos Browbeat

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 →

Leveraging the Power of Elasticsearch in the Performance World

August 15, 2016August 15, 2016 smalleni Browbeat, Development Browbeat, elasticsearch, performance engineering

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 →

Upstream Meeting Notes Now Available

June 22, 2016June 23, 2016 Will Foster Browbeat Browbeat, irc, upstream

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.

Browbeat ELK Stack Ansible Playbooks Now Support Fluentd

June 17, 2016June 17, 2016 Will Foster Ansible, Browbeat elk, fluentd, logging

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.