[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 09/11] doc: add telemetry documentation

[Ciara Power <ciara.power@intel.com>]

This patch adds all documentation for telemetry.

A description on how to use the Telemetry API with a DPDK
application is given in this document.

Signed-off-by: Ciara Power <ciara.power@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Archbold <brian.archbold@intel.com>
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 doc/guides/howto/telemetry.rst | 86 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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     virtio_user_for_container_networking
     virtio_user_as_exceptional_path
     packet_capture_framework
+    telemetry
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+..  SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+    Copyright(c) 2018 Intel Corporation.
+
+DPDK Telemetry API User Guide
+==============================
+
+This document describes how the Data Plane Development Kit(DPDK) Telemetry API
+is used for querying port statistics from incoming traffic.
+
+Introduction
+------------
+
+The ``librte_telemetry`` provides the functionality so that users may query
+metrics from incoming port traffic. The application which initializes packet
+forwarding will act as the server, sending metrics to the requesting application
+which acts as the client.
+
+In DPDK, applications can be used to initialize the ``telemetry`` as a virtual
+device. To view incoming traffic on featured ports, the application should be
+run first (ie. after ports are configured). Once the application is running, the
+service assurance agent(for example the collectd plugin) should be run to begin
+querying the API.
+
+A client connects their Service Assurance application to the DPDK application
+via a UNIX socket. Once a connection is established, a client can send JSON
+messages to the DPDK application requesting metrics via another UNIX client.
+This request is then handled and parsed if valid. The response is then
+formatted in JSON and sent back to the requesting client.
+
+Pre-requisites
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+* Python ≥ 2.5
+
+* Jansson library for JSON serialization
+
+Test Environment
+----------------
+
+``telemetry`` offers a range of selftests that a client can run within
+the DPDK application. This is done by passing in an argument to the
+virtual device initialization like so through the EAL command line.::
+
+        ./dpdk_app --vdev=telemetry,selftest=1
+
+
+Configuration
+-------------
+
+Enable the telemetry API by modifying the following config option before
+building DPDK::
+
+        CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_TELEMETRY=y
+
+Note: Meson will pick this up automatically if ``libjansson`` is available.
+
+Running the Application
+-----------------------
+
+The following steps demonstrate how to run the ``telemetry`` API  to query all
+statistics on all active ports, using the ``telemetry_client`` python script
+to query.
+Note: This guide assumes packet generation is applicable and the user is
+testing with testpmd as a DPDK primary application to forward packets, although
+any DPDK application is applicable.
+
+#. Launch testpmd as the primary application with the ``telemetry``
+   virtual device.::
+
+        ./app/testpmd --vdev=telemetry
+
+#. Launch the ``telemetry`` python script with a client filepath.::
+
+        python usertools/telemetry_client.py /var/run/some_client
+
+   The client filepath is going to be used to setup our UNIX connect with the
+   DPDK primary application, in this case ``testpmd``
+   This will initialize a menu where a client can proceed to recursively query
+   statistics, request statistics once or unregister the file_path, thus exiting
+   the menu.
+
+#. Send traffic to any or all available ports from a traffic generator.
+   Select a query option(recursive or singular polling).
+   The metrics will then be displayed on the client terminal in JSON format.
+
+#. Once finished, unregister the client using the menu command.
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