[openstack-dev] Introducing Synaps project that provides AWS CloudWatch compatible API

Eoghan Glynn eglynn at redhat.com
Wed Oct 10 09:59:21 UTC 2012



> > > I'm working for Synaps project that provides AWS CloudWatch
> > > compatible API at Samsung SDS.
> > > Currently, we have plan to open the project to the community.
> > > 
> > > Here I introduce Synaps project:
> > > http://wiki.openstack.org/Synaps
> > 
> > Details are a bit scarce but at first glance there seem to be an
> > overlap
> > with the CloudWatch work in the Heat project ?
> 
> There certainly seems to be from the description, but pretty hard to
> evaluate until we see some code ;)

Yes, I would second that.

Once the code is out the open, the community will be much better placed
to judge which approach will make sense to concentrate efforts on.

June Yi - are you planning on attending the design summit?

Cheers,
Eoghan
 
 
> > Any chance the two groups could meet at the Design Summit next week
> > and
> > make sure we don't duplicate effort here ?
> > 
> > Angus Saskeld has a session on CloudWatch in the Incubation room:
> > http://openstacksummitfall2012.sched.org/event/60b0bcf1253efcb3dd72dff531d59d26
> 
> Angus Salkeld and Steve Dake will be at the Summit and could discuss,
> also
> possible overlap with metric collection in ceilometer (has been
> discussed
> previously).
> 
> I have several questions which will be make/break for the heat usage
> of
> Cloudwatch:
> 
> - Is the metric collection secure/authenticated?
> - Are metrics collected from the hypervisors or in-instance?
> - Can service monitoring (in instance) metrics be collected?
> - Is the API authenticated (ie via keystone ec2 credentials?)
> 
> Many more questions, need to see code and evaluate if we could use
> this for
> heat or if we continue with our own implementation.
> 
> --
> Steve Hardy
> Red Hat Engineering, Cloud
> 
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