# Rally job

We provide, with Watcher, a Rally plugin you can use to benchmark the optimization service.

To launch this task with configured Rally you just need to run:

    rally task start watcher/rally-jobs/watcher-watcher.yaml

## Structure

- plugins - directory where you can add rally plugins. Almost everything in Rally is a plugin. Benchmark context, Benchmark scenario, SLA checks, Generic cleanup resources, ….

- extra - all files from this directory will be copy pasted to gates, so you are able to use absolute paths in rally tasks. Files will be located in ~/.rally/extra/*

- watcher.yaml is a task that is run in gates against OpenStack deployed by DevStack

## Useful links

- How to install: https://docs.openstack.org/rally/latest/install_and_upgrade/install.html

- How to set Rally up and launch your first scenario: https://rally.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quick_start/tutorial/step_1_setting_up_env_and_running_benchmark_from_samples.html

- More about Rally: https://docs.openstack.org/rally/latest/

- Rally project info and release notes: https://docs.openstack.org/rally/latest/project_info/index.html

- How to add rally-gates: https://docs.openstack.org/rally/latest/quick_start/gates.html#gate-jobs

- About plugins: https://docs.openstack.org/rally/latest/plugins/index.html

- Plugin samples: https://github.com/openstack/rally/tree/master/samples/

this page last updated: 2026-05-26 14:30:00

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