ALUMET

Adaptive, Lightweight, Unified Metrics.

ALUMET is a generic measurement tool that brings together research and industry. Interesting features include:

• true modularity: you can add new sources of measurements, data transforms and outputs without modifying the core of the tool
• pay only for what you need: by choosing the plugins that are included in the tool, you avoid bloat and stay lightweight
• performance: built in Rust, optimized for low latency and low memory consumption
• unification: one core, one interface for all your metrics on all your devices

Learn more on the website.

What can I measure with it?

Alumet sources include:

• RAPL counters on x86 CPUS
• NVIDIA dedicated GPUs
• NVIDIA Jetson devices
• Linux perf_events for processes and cgroups
• Kubernetes pods (WIP)

If your favorite feature is not listed above, don't worry! The list of plugins is rapidly growing, and we have an ambitious roadmap.

How to use

Please read the Alumet user book to learn how to install and use Alumet.

This repository

ALUMET is divided in several parts:

• The alumet crate contains the core of the measurement tool, as a Rust library.
• Binaries can be created from this library, in order to provide a runnable measurement software, such as app-agent.
• Plugins are defined in separate folders: plugin-nvidia, plugin-rapl, etc.
• Two more crates, alumet-api-dynamic and alumet-api-macros, ease the creation of dynamic plugins written in Rust (WIP).
• test-dynamic-plugins only exists for testing purposes.

License

Copyright 2024 Guillaume Raffin, BULL SAS, CNRS, INRIA, Grenoble INP-UGA. Licensed under the EUPL-1.2 or later.