Horizon Rally Dashboard for quick and easy running benchmark scenarios and viewing their results.

1. Add benchmark_dashboard to INSTALLED_APPS tuple.
2. The default path for scenario definitions is at /srv/rally/scenarios, but it altered with RALLY_ROOT variable in local_settings.py of your Horizon installation.

RALLY_ROOT = '/srv/rally/scenarios'

RALLY_DB = "mysql://rally:password@127.0.0.1/rally"

RALLY_PLUGINS = [
    'rally.plugins.openstack',
    'rally.plugins.common'
]

# or load all

RALLY_PLUGINS = [
    'rally.plugins',
]

Create or clone your scenario definitions to default location /srv/rally/scenarios or set RALLY_ROOT variable to your location.

Scenarios are used from directory tasks/scenarios located under the RALLY_ROOT folder.

ls -la /srv/rally/scenarios/tasks/scenarios/nova/

boot-and-delete-multiple.yaml
boot-and-delete-server-with-keypairs.yaml
boot-and-delete-server-with-secgroups.yaml
boot-and-delete.yaml
boot-from-volume-and-delete.yaml
boot-snapshot-boot-delete.yaml
create-and-delete-secgroups.yaml

Now a new Thread is created for every task, which may cause Horizon overload, but async task behaviour can be overwritten:

def run_async(method):

    # call Celery or whatever

    Thread(target=method, args=[]).start()

Set the method to benchmark_dashboard.utils.async to enable asynchronous task.

• https://rally.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
• http://docs.openstack.org/developer/horizon/topics/tutorial.html