Watcher provides a flexible and scalable resource optimization service for multi-tenant OpenStack-based clouds. Watcher provides a complete optimization loop—including everything from a metrics receiver, complex event processor and profiler, optimization processor and an action plan applier. This provides a robust framework to realize a wide range of cloud optimization goals, including the reduction of data center operating costs, increased system performance via intelligent virtual machine migration, increased energy efficiency—and more!
Project information
- Licence:
- Apache Licence
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2025.1 series is the current focus of development.
All packages Packages in Distributions
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watcher source package in Plucky
Version 2:13.0.0-0ubuntu1 uploaded -
watcher source package in Oracular
Version 2:13.0.0-0ubuntu1 uploaded -
watcher source package in Noble
Version 2:12.0.0-0ubuntu1 uploaded -
watcher source package in Mantic
Version 2:11.0.0-0ubuntu1 uploaded -
watcher source package in Lunar
Version 2:10.0.0-0ubuntu1 uploaded
All bugs Latest bugs reported
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Bug #2091696: watcher project not is compatible with last sqlalchemy versions
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Bug #2089866: "test_create_continuous_audit_with_wrong_interval" test is constantly failing with an error msg mismatch
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Bug #2089384: The Datasouce base class is not declared as an ABC but uses @abc.absractmethod
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Bug #2088118: watcher workload_balancing failing with pool_name attribute error
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Bug #2086711: openstack optimize service list command show watcher-decision-engine status as FAILED
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All blueprints Latest blueprints
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Add Prometheus as a Watcher Data Source
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Add MAAS support
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timeout for instance migration should be configurable
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Remove usage of six library
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watcher need support watcher-service delete
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More contributors Top contributors
- sean mooney 2564 points
- Douglas Viroel 19 points
- chandan kumar 11 points
- Gianluca Gemini 10 points
- Bryan Fraschetti 10 points