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Update on NetApp Harvest (2.0 & 1.7)

vachagan_gratian
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Dear all,

 

It has been a while, here is finally some news about NetApp Harvest.

 

TL;DR:

- We are planning Harvest 2.0 alpha-test release in around a month

- Simultaneously, we will do a (probably last) legacy release, Harvest 1.7, in August.

 

Harvest 2.0

Things have been going a bit slower than we expected, but we made a lot of progress. As announced earlier, we've changed the whole architecture to meet two goals that are often regarded as disjoint in software engineering: high performance and high flexibility. Flexibility mainly means that it will be much easier to integrate Harvest to any system that you want to monitor (including but not limited to Ontap systems). It will be also relatively easier to feed metrics into new databases. Out of the box, we will support Prometheus. Graphite will be supported as well, but with some limitations (since Graphite only accepts numerical data).

 

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Before we plan on the official release of Harvest 2.0, we want to do an alpha-test release for users who want to "play around" with the new software and give us feedback. Tentatively we want to do this release late July or early August (once we decide the final date, I'll post an update here).

 

If you are interested to get the alpha release, please send me a message with your name, email address and organization. But please note the following:

- this will be a strictly test release, not intended for production

- Harvest 2.0 requires Linux + Python3 and optionally pip to install dependencies,

- supports only CDOT systems, 7 mode will come later

- gives you approximately the same set of counters as Harvest 1.6 + extensions

- for capacity counters there is no need for OCUM/ActiveIQUM anymore

- collected counters can be sent to Prometheus or Graphite or both, but:

- there will be limited number of Grafana dashboards ready and only for Prometheus (but of course, you can create your dashboards if wished)

- Harvest 2.0 includes a self-monitoring collector, so you can see how much CPU/RAM it uses and compare to Harvest 1.6

- it will come with a developer's documentation for writing your own collectors and exporters.

 

If you want to test the new package, we appreciate that a lot, since feedback at this point can help us incredibly.

If you want to wait for the official (stable) release, just keep tuned. We will keep you updated as soon as we have a release date on the horizon.

 

Harvest 1.7

This will probably be our last legacy release which we are planning to do in August. It will mainly include bug fixes and no new major features.

 

Lastly, again, I need to apologize for not responding to many messages here in communities. I will try to catch up, but if you don't get a response to your issue, please DM or tag me (probably again -- sorry).

 

Cheers,

 

Vachagan

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evelez
5,842 Views

count me in!

keremcumhur
5,800 Views

Hi,

 

how can I sign up to be an Alpha-tester ?

TechopsVendor
7,067 Views

Any work on release date?

We are interested is being part of a beta group as well?

nvidia-india
6,694 Views

Any plans to provide a tool to migrate all existing metrics from graphite to Prometheus? We have one year worth of data which we would like to retain and move to Prometheus. If you can provide a tool for doing it, it will help a lot of customer i believe.

 

 

vachagan_gratian
6,663 Views

Hi, it's a little bit tricky with prometheus since it does not accept timestamps, but @gmey  is working on hack 🙂 we'll let you when there is a working solution.

Nephium
6,656 Views

Hello,  I can't manage to find the 1.7 on the Tools page dedicated to Harvest, was it released as it was planned in august ?

Anyway, we would be interested in testing the 2.0 version in parralel if you're still looking for alpha testers.

vachagan_gratian
6,550 Views

Hi Nephium,

 

Unfortunately, we were to busy with Harvest 2.0 and did not manage to work on 1.7, we are currently trying to reschedule it...

If you want to get the Harvest 2.0 Alpha package just drop me a message with your email, name and company name!

 

Cheers, Vachagan

Neo_Lan
5,347 Views

Hytrea Co.,Ltd.

 

I'm using harvest, please send me version 2.0, Thanks

NetAppHarvests
5,182 Views

Customer of mine is looking for Harvest 2.0 as they are looking to feed all metrics to prometheus. How can we get access to harvest 2.0 package ?

Paul_Sideris
5,118 Views
Hello Community,

I need access to Harvest 2.0 for our customer as well.

I have already made a request for a link to download.

Please advise and thanks,

Paul

Paul Sideris
Global Support Account Manager
Professional Services - Americas

NetApp

CHMOELLER
4,532 Views

Is Harvest dead?

moep
4,486 Views

They are still working on 2.0. "Private" beta test is already running.

Paul_Sideris
4,470 Views
Hello Harvest Team,

Any way our customer (Cisco) can get a beta copy to use and assist with testing ?

Please me know asap , as customer is eager to get 2.0.

Thank You,

Paul

Paul Sideris
Global Support Account Manager
Professional Services - Americas

NetApp
408-893-5068 Mobile Phone
Paul.Sideris@netapp.com

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Josep
4,404 Views

Hi, I would also be interested on testing harvest 2.0

Is it possible to download it from somewhere? You can contact me on josep.moscardo@embl.de

Paul_Sideris
5,266 Views

Where to download Harvest 2.0 ??

 

Hello Vachagan / Community,

 

I have a customer that is asking where they can get Harvest 2.0.

 

I see on the NetApp Support site the latest version is 1.6.

Can anyone point me to the 2.0 version ?

 

Thanks,

 

Paul Sideris / NetApp GSAM

 

 

 

 

mattkauffmann
4,141 Views

Just started this week finding out I can drink in pretty much everything we have into prometheus and while NABox was my training ground for Grafana I am really interested in using netapp-harvest-prometheus but seems like it's hit a bit of a road block.  Any updates?

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