SONATA Profiler

son-profile: Automated performance profiling of network services

The basic idea of son-profile is to deploy network services on SONATA’s emulation platform and do some load testing under different resource constraints. During these tests a variety of metrics can be monitored which allows service developers to find bugs, investigate problems or detect bottlenecks in their services. The main purpose of son-profile is to automate big parts of this workflow to support network service developers as much as possible.

Documentation

1. Overview
2. Active Profiling
   1. [Environment setup]
   2. [Configuration]
   3. [PED File]
   4. [Walkthrough]
3. Passive Profiling

References

• S. v. Rossem, W. Tavernier, M. Peuster, D. Colle, M. Pickavet and P. Demeester: Monitoring and debugging using an SDK for NFV-powered telecom applications. IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN), Palo Alto, CA, USA, Demo Session. (2016)

• M. Peuster, H. Karl: Understand Your Chains: Towards Performance Profile-based Network Service Management. Accepted in Fifth European Workshop on Software Defined Networks (EWSDN). IEEE. (2016)

• M. Peuster and H. Karl: Profile Your Chains, Not Functions: Automated Network Service Profiling in DevOps Environments. IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN), Berlin, Germany. (2017)