Green Monitoring Stack

Table of contents

• Green Monitoring Stack
  • Table of contents
  • About the project
    • KPIs
    • Technology stack
  • Getting started
    • Prerequisites
    • Configuration
    • Installation
  • Usage
    • Access
    • Dashboards
  • Specifications
  • FAQ
  • Contributing
  • License
  • Contact
  • Acknowledgements

About the project

A monitoring stack with samples for collection and data exploration for sustainability purposes.

The data is collected from Network, DC (compute / storage) infrastructure, third-party devices and external sources to be able to understand the energy consumption and its relation to traffic and bandwidth, the cost and the carbon footprint of the environment at various levels of granularity.

KPIs

Element	KPI
network device	power power supply load power supply efficiency traffic bandwidth utilization power consumption ratio (PCR) - reference CO2-eq emissions (+ historical) cost
server	power utilization temperature CO2-eq emissions cost
pdu	power
rack	power TBD: temperature

Technology stack

Architecture

Captures data from:

• IOS-XR routers
• NX-OS switches
• Meraki switches
• UCS servers
• ACI APIC
• Raritan PDUs
• Eaton PDUs

Stores data in:

• InfluxDB v2

Exposes data in:

• Grafana

Data Flow:

IOS-XR
NX-OS
Meraki
ACI APIC                   -> Telegraf     ->     InfluxDB     -> Grafana
UCS: REDFISH/CIMC/UCSM
Raritan PDUs
Eaton PDUs

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Getting started

Prerequisites

Use these instructions.

Configuration

Use these instructions.

Installation

Use these instructions.

Usage

Access

Access the two following WebUIs by replacing the HOST_IP placeholder with the reachable IP address of the host that runs the stack:

• Grafana - hosts custom visualizations.
• Influx (credentials based on .env) - for exploration of raw data.

Dashboards

Overview power - Meraki - organization/switches

Overview power - DC - Nexus

Overview CO₂-eq emissions - DC - Nexus

Overview power - NCS, ASR 9K, Cisco 8K

Overview CO₂-eq emissions - NCS, ASR 9K, Cisco 8K

Historical overview of CO₂-eq emissions - Fretta

Power - DC - UCS

Temperature - DC - UCS

Utilization - DC - UCS

Rack view - DC - UCS 1/3

Rack view - DC - UCS 2/3

Rack view - DC - UCS 3/3

PDUs - Raritan

PDUs - Eaton

Cost - DC - Nexus and UCS

PCR (Power consumption ratio) versus Traffic

PCR (Power consumption ratio) versus Bandwidth utilization - concept

PCR (Power consumption ratio) versus Bandwidth utilization - NCS

PCR (Power consumption ratio) versus Bandwidth utilization - ASR 9K and Cisco 8K

Bandwidth utilization and distribution per interface

Specifications

The collections available are documented in SPECS.md.

FAQ

See FAQ.md.

Contributing

Contributions are highly appreciated. Please follow the guidelines documented in CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

Distributed under the Apache License Version 2.0. See the LICENSE for more information.

Contact

• Cristina Precup - cprecup@cisco.com
• Guillaume Ladhuie - gladhuie@cisco.com
• Jean-Baptiste Lefeuvre - jlefeuvr@cisco.com
• Oren Brigg - obrigg@cisco.com
• Patrice Nivaggioli - pnivaggi@cisco.com
• Philippe Tubello - ptubello@cisco.com
• Salvatore Faraone - sfaraone@cisco.com
• Steven Barth - stbarth@cisco.com

Acknowledgements

• Cisco
• CO2 Signal
• Electricity Maps
• Influx Data
• Grafana Labs
• Eaton
• Raritan