# if using standalone, the following commands come after 'sudo dnf install -y python3-tripleoclient'

su - stack

# clone and install observability client plugin
git clone https://opendev.org/openstack/python-observabilityclient.git
cd python-observabilityclient
sudo python setup.py install --prefix=/usr

Usage

Use openstack metric query somequery to query for metrics in prometheus.

To use the python api do the following:

from observabilityclient import client

c = client.Client(
            '1', keystone_client.get_session(conf),
            adapter_options={
                'interface': conf.service_credentials.interface,
                'region_name': conf.service_credentials.region_name})
c.query.query("somequery")

List of commands

openstack metric list - lists all metrics openstack metric show - shows current values of a metric openstack metric query - queries prometheus and outputs the result openstack metric delete - deletes some metrics openstack metric snapshot - takes a snapshot of the current data openstack metric clean-tombstones - cleans the tsdb tombstones

List of functions provided by the python library

c.query.list - lists all metrics c.query.show - shows current values of a metric c.query.query - queries prometheus and outputs the result c.query.delete - deletes some metrics c.query.snapshot - takes a snapshot of the current data c.query.clean-tombstones - cleans the tsdb tombstones