PowerAPI Quickstart

PowerAPI quickstart is a collection of opinionated scripts and configuration files that allows developers and researchers to easily start a PowerAPI monitoring stack.

The deployed stack is composed of several components:

• One or several PowerAPI sensors, used to collect metrics exposed by the processor
• A Mongo database, used to store metrics collected by the sensor(s)
• A PowerAPI formula, used to compute the energy consumption of the monitored processes
• A InfluxDB database, used to store values generated by the formula
• A Grafana dashboard, to display the generated values in real-time.

In addition we provide simple scripts to gather the generated metrics.

You can find more about PowerAPI in its documentation.

Prerequisites

Hardware requirements: Servers that will host PowerAPI sensors must have a Sandy Bridge Intel processor (or newer).

Software requirements: see the README.md file under each deployment folder.

Usage

This project provide several ways to deploy PowerAPI, under the deployment folder. If you want to:

• Deploy PowerAPI on a single server, see the docker-compose directory
• Deploy PowerAPI on a cluster, see the docker-stack directory

Once the PowerAPI stack deployed, you can start programs you want to monitor in a Docker container.

Licence

This project is licensed under GNU GPL-3.0