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Horacio González – Monitoring OVH: 300k servers, 27 DCs and one Observability platform
Monitoring 300,000 servers and hundreds of millions of virtual machines requires a scalable solution. Learn how OVH built its own metrics platform leveraging Hadoop and Apache-based solutions.
- Monitoring infrastructure for OVH, a large hosting and cloud provider, required a scalable solution.
- The company needed to monitor 350,000 physical servers, 28 data centers, and hundreds of millions of virtual machines.
- OVH used various monitoring solutions, including OpenTSDB, Graphite, and FluxDB, but found them to be insufficient.
- The company decided to create its own metrics platform, which would provide a single solution for monitoring and analytics.
- The platform would need to support massive scalability, high-performance analytics, and real-time data processing.
- OVH used a combination of technologies, including Hadoop, as-based, and Warp 10, to build its metrics platform.
- The platform was designed to provide a single interface for monitoring and analytics, with support for various data sources and formats.
- OVH’s metrics platform was highly scalable and able to handle large volumes of data, making it a critical component of the company’s infrastructure.
- The company also used a custom language, WarpScript, to simplify the use of its metrics platform and provide a more user-friendly interface.
- OVH’s metrics platform was designed to be highly extensible, with support for new data sources and analytics capabilities.
- The platform was also designed to be highly available and fault-tolerant, with multiple instances and replicas to ensure data availability.
- OVH’s metrics platform was a key factor in the company’s ability to provide high-quality services to its customers.
- The company continues to use its metrics platform to monitor and analyze its infrastructure, and has expanded its use to include monitoring of its customers’ infrastructure as well.
- OVH’s experience with building its own metrics platform has been positive, and the company continues to invest in its development and improvement.
- The company believes that its metrics platform is a key differentiator for its business, and has helped to establish OVH as a leading provider of hosting and cloud services.