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Chapter 1. Metrics Store installation overview

The Metrics Store installation involves the following key steps:

  1. Creating the Metrics Store virtual machines
  2. Deploying OpenShift and Metrics Store services on the virtual machines
  3. Deploying collectd and fluentd on the hosts
  4. Verifying the Metrics Store installation

Metrics Store architecture and workflow

The Metrics Store architecture is based on the OpenShift EFK logging stack, running on OpenShift Container Platform 3.11.

The workflow involves the following steps and services, running on the hosts or the Metrics Store virtual machines:

  1. collectd (hosts) collects metrics from hosts, virtual machines, and databases in the Red Hat Virtualization environment.
  2. fluentd (hosts) gathers the metrics and log data, enriches the data with metadata, and sends the enriched data to Elasticsearch.
  3. Elasticsearch (Metrics Store virtual machine) stores and indexes the data.
  4. Kibana (Metrics Store virtual machine) provides dashboards, charts, and data analysis.

Figure 1.1. Metrics Store Architecture

Metrics Store architecture fluentd