Maia

Maia is a multi-tenant OpenStack-service for accessing metrics and alarms collected through Prometheus. It offers a Prometheus-compatible API and supports federation.

At SAP we use it to share tenant-specific metrics from our Converged Cloud platform with our users. For their convenience we included a CLI, so that metrics can be discovered and retrieved from shell scripts.

If you don't use OpenStack, you can still use Maia CLI as a feature-complete shell client for Prometheus.

Features

Maia Service

• OpenStack Identity v3 authentication and authorization
• Project- and domain-level access control (scoping)
• Compatible to Grafana's Prometheus data source
• Compatible to Prometheus API (read-only)
• Supports secure federation to additional Prometheus instances

Maia UI

• Prometheus expression browser adapted to Maia
• Browse projects and metrics
• Perform ad-hoc PromQL queries
• Graph metrics

Maia CLI

• Feature-complete CLI supporting all API operations
• JSON and Go-template-based output for reliable automation
• Works with Prometheus, too (no OpenStack required)

Installation

Maia can be built with Go 1.14, and 1.15. Older versions are not supported. Newer versions are not tested.

Binary Releases

Binary releases for Linux and MacOS can be downloaded from the GitHub releases area.

Installation with make

• make to compile and run the binaries from the build/ directory
• make && make install to install to /usr
• make && make install PREFIX=/some/path to install to /some/path
• make docker to build the Docker image (set image name and tag with the DOCKER_IMAGE and DOCKER_TAG variables)

Using Maia

Maia can be used via Web-UI or CLI.

Enter maia --help to see a list of commands and options.

Please refer to the Maia user guide for more instructions.

Operating Maia

The easiest way to deploy Maia as a service is Kubernetes.

Feel free to reuse our Maia helm chart which includes Maia, Prometheus and Thanos.

Follow the Maia operators guide to learn how to setup the Maia service from scratch and integrate with Prometheus.

Integrating and Extending Maia

The Maia developers guide describes how to use the Maia API. Also it contains information how to contribute to the Maia development.