ZMON Service Level Reporting

WORK IN PROGRESS

Calculate SLI/SLO metrics using ZMON's KairosDB timeseries database.

Idea:

• Retrieve metrics such as latencies and error counts from KairosDB
• Aggregate metrics, weighted by requests/s
• Push metrics truncated to full minute timestamps into PostgreSQL
• Generate reliabilty reports (weekly, monthly, ..)

Server local setup

Development

Prepare the database

$ docker run -d -p 5432:5432 postgres:9.5
$ echo 'CREATE DATABASE slr' | psql -h localhost -U postgres
$ export DATABASE_URI=postgresql://postgres@localhost/slr
$ export KAIROSDB_URL=https://kairosdb.example.org

Run migration

$ export FLASK_APP=app/main.py
$ export SLR_LOCAL_ENV=true
$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt
$ flask db upgrade -d app/migrations/

Run the server

$ python -m app

Configuration parameters:

OAUTH2_ACCESS_TOKENS_URL

Token endpoint URL.

CREDENTIALS_DIR

Folder with OAuth application credentials (client.json and user.json).

DATABASE_URI

PostgreSQL database connection string.

KAIROSDB_URL

KairosDB base URL.

Docker compose

You can deploy a server environment with docker-compose

$ docker-compose up

Generating Reports

You will need to install gnuplot as a system dependency. Running the following command will generate a report for the specified project in output directory. You will need zmon-slr CLI to be installed (next section)

$ zmon-slr report create myproduct

Command Line Interface

You can interact with API service using CLI tool zmon-slr.

Examples:

$ python setup.py install

$ zmon-slr -h

Usage: zmon-slr [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  Service Level Reporting command line interface

Options:
  -h, --help  Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  configure  Configure CLI
  group      SLR product groups
  product    SLR products
  sli        Service level indicators
  slo        Service level objectives
  target     Service level objectives Targets

$ zmon-slr group create "Monitoring Inc." "Tech Infrastructure"
Creating product_group: Monitoring Inc.
{
  "created": "2017-06-19T12:31:44.665459Z",
  "department": "Tech Infrastructure",
  "updated": "2017-06-19T12:31:44.665473Z",
  "slug": "monitoring-inc",
  "name": "Monitoring Inc.",
  "uri": "http://localhost:8080/api/product-groups/1",
  "username": "username"
}
 OK

$ zmon-slr group list
[
  {
    "created": "2017-06-19T12:31:44.665459Z",
    "department": "Tech Infrastructure",
    "updated": "2017-06-19T12:31:44.665473Z",
    "slug": "monitoring-inc",
    "name": "Monitoring Inc.",
    "uri": "http://localhost:8080/api/product-groups/1",
    "username": "username"
  }
]

$ zmon-slr product create ZMON monitoring-inc
Creating product: ZMON
{
  "product_reports_uri": "http://localhost:8080/api/products/1/reports",
  "product_reports_weekly_uri": "http://localhost:8080/api/products/1/reports/weekly",
  "username": "username",
  "slug": "zmon",
  "product_slo_uri": "http://localhost:8080/api/products/1/slo",
  "updated": "2017-06-19T12:34:51.818225Z",
  "product_group_uri": "http://localhost:8080/api/product-groups/1",
  "product_group_name": "Monitoring Inc.",
  "name": "ZMON",
  "product_sli_uri": "http://localhost:8080/api/products/1/sli",
  "uri": "http://localhost:8080/api/products/1",
  "created": "2017-06-19T12:34:51.818210Z"
}
 OK

$ zmon-slr product delete zmon
Deleting product: zmon
 OK

$ zmon-slr group delete monitoring-inc
Deleting product_group: monitoring-inc
 OK