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Pulse ^{_{A powerful telemetry agent framework from Intel Corporation ®}}

Description

Pulse is a framework for enabling the gathering of telemetry from systems. The goal of this project is:

• Improve the deployment model and flexibility of a telemetry tools.
• Allow dynamic control of collection for one system or many at once.
• Make it easy to inject processing on telemetry at the agent for use cases like machine learning.
• Reduce the friction of pointing Pulse to any telemetry ingesting system.
• Provide operational improvements that make collecting on a very large cluster of systems easier.

Pulse provides several specific features:

• Three types of plugins: collectors, processors, and publishers.
• Open plugin model allows for loading built-in, community, or proprietary plugins into Pulse.
• Dynamic loading, unloading, and swapping of plugins.
• Adding a newer version of a plugin automatically upgrades the next scheduled actions (when not pinned to a version).
• Powerful control using viral clustering of Pulse instances into a Tribe.
• Ability to run Pulse in distributed role deployment models.
• Extensible source allowing addition of extended scheduling, plugins, routing, and more.
• Multiple management modules including: CLI, REST API, and Web Console. Each of which can be turned on or off.
• CLI control from OSX, Windows, or Linux.

Pulse is not intended to:

• Operate as an analytics platform. The intention is to allow plugins for feeding those platforms.
• Compete with existing metric/monitoring/telemetry agents. It is simply a new option to use or reference.

Pulse needs:

• Feedback: try it and tell us about it.
• Contributors: We need plugins, schedules, testing, and more.
• Integrations: Pulse can feasibly publish to almost any destination. We need publishing plugins for Ceilometer, vCOPs, and more.

Pulse architecture

• Written in Go
• Decoupled internal structure with a focus on event-driven handling

License

System Requirements

Building

make

Testing

make test

Installation

Local installation

make install

Running

Documentation

REST API

Pulsed

• Pulsed

CLI

• Pulsectl

Contributing

• Please read our development guidelines
• TODO - CLA

Releases

Contributors

• Joel Cooklin - @jcooklin - Intel Corporation
• Justin Guidroz - @geauxvirtual - Intel Corporation
• Tiffany Jernigan - @tiffanyfj - Intel Corporation
• Szymon Konefal - @skonefal - Intel Corporation
• Pawel Palucki - @ppalucki - Intel Corporation
• Daniel Pittman - @danielscottt - Intel Corporation
• Nicholas Weaver - @lynxbat - Intel Corporation