host-sflow 1.1

The Host sFlow agent exports physical and virtual server performance metrics using the sFlow protocol. The agent provides scalable, multi-vendor, multi-OS performance monitoring with minimal impact on the systems being monitored. Current approaches to server performance monitoring are highly fragmented. Each operating system, server vendor and application developer creates their own agents and software for performance monitoring, none of which interoperate. The Host sFlow project provides an open source implementation of the sFlow standard, reporting on server performance. Computer vendors are encouraged to simplify deployment of sFlow by integrating the agent in their products. The combination of host performance data from servers and network performance data from switches provides a complete picture of performance in converged environments. sFlow provides a common standard for network and system management, reducing the number of tools needed to provide the unified, end to end view of performance required to manage converged, virtualized and cloud data centers.