Chapter 18. Monitoring Red Hat Gluster Storage

Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.3.1 delivers Red Hat Gluster Storage Web Administration. This intuitive GUI delivers monitoring and metrics capabilities with data that is derived from the Grafana platform. Red Hat Gluster Storage Web Administration allows you to view and customize metrics information related to cluster health, status, and performance. Event and alert notification through email is also available. Red Hat recommends using Gluster Storage Web Administration to monitor your Red Hat Gluster Storage environment. The existing Red Hat Gluster Storage Console management infrastructure is supported through the current Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.x life cycle, which ends on October 31, 2019.

To view metrics data and monitor Red Hat Gluster Storage servers with Red Hat Gluster Storage Web Administration, see the following publications:

You can also monitor Red Hat Gluster Storage servers on Nagios platform to monitor Red Hat Gluster Storage trusted storage pool, hosts, volumes, and services. You can monitor utilization, status, alerts and notifications for status and utilization changes.

For more information on Nagios software, refer Nagios Documentation.

Using Nagios, the physical resources, logical resources, and processes (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network, Swap, cluster, volume, brick, Host, Volumes, Brick, nfs, shd, quotad, ctdb, smb, glusterd, quota, geo-replication, self-heal,and server quorum) can be monitored. You can view the utilization and status through Nagios Server GUI.

Red Hat Gluster Storage trusted storage pool monitoring can be setup in one of the three deployment scenarios listed below:

This chapter describes the procedures for deploying Nagios on Red Hat Gluster Storage node and Red Hat Enterprise Linux node. For information on deploying Nagios on Red Hat Gluster Storage Console node, see Red Hat Gluster Storage Console Administration Guide.

The following diagram illustrates deployment of Nagios on Red Hat Gluster Storage node.

The following diagram illustrates deployment of Nagios on Red Hat Enterprise Linux node.