[openstack-dev] [ceilometer] Possible issue with MongoDB storage resource ID

Doug Hellmann doug.hellmann at dreamhost.com
Sat Nov 17 16:24:06 UTC 2012


On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Julien Danjou <julien at danjou.info> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 17 2012, Doug Hellmann wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure we can tell, from the inside of ceilometer, what a unique
> > identifier for a resource described by a given meter event should be. I
> > think the intent was that the sender would do whatever was necessary to
> > ensure it was unique. If the sender is concerned about collisions, it
> could
> > prefix the resource id with some constant identifying the sender.
>
> Ok. I'm fine with that too, but somehow think we should emphasis a bit
> somewhere in the documentation, because I really though that source
> assured isolation between resource IDs.
>

We could say that, but then we would have to eliminate the API calls that
don't include source in the URL. I'm OK with doing that, but we need to
think it through before taking that step.

Doug


>
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> Julien Danjou
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