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But how does Synaps then difffer from Ceilometer? It looks to be duplicated
efforts here?

Endre.

2012/10/10 Joonwon Lee <joonwon7.lee at samsung.com>

> Hi, Eoghan,
> 1. No, we don't have any relation with ceilometer.
> 2. Cassandra and Storm (as explained in http://wiki.openstack.org/Synaps)
> 3. As far as I understand, aggregation is performed lazily on the request.
>  (Metrics are collected every minute and aggregated according to the
> request.)
>
> Deok-June Yi can explain with more details tomorrow, if you want.
> Thanks,
> Joonwon Lee
>
> ------- Original Message -------
> Sender : Eoghan Glynn<eglynn at redhat.com>
> Date : Oct 10, 2012 21:14 (GMT+09:00)
> Title : Re: [openstack-dev] Introducing Synaps project that provides AWS
> CloudWatch compatible API
>
>
> Hi Joonwon Lee,
>
> > Unfortunately, we could not attend the Design Summit. We also need
> > some time
> > before opening our source codes, mostly for our internal process. We
> > will try to shorten this time.
>
> It's unfortunate you guys won't be at the summit, as it would have
> been great to discuss in that forum.
>
> But that said, the quicker you can push the code through your internal
> process, the better.
>
>
> > Now we're preparing the overview of our project and other
> > documentation.
> > If you have any questions, feel free to ask them at any time.
>
> A few immediate questions that spring to mind:
>
> 1. Are you re-using any of the ceilometer[1] infrastructure for
>    your metrics collection pipeline?
>
> 2. What technology is the metrics store based on, at a high level?
>    (e.g. RDBMS accessed via sqlalchemy, noSQL store such as MongoDB,
>     etc.)
>
> 3. How are you performing datapoint aggregation? (e.g. eagerly on
>    metric ingestion, versus lazily on get)
>
> Cheers,
> Eoghan
>
> [1] http://ceilometer.readthedocs.org/en/latest/architecture.html
>
>
> > Here are answers of June Yi for Steven Hardy's questions below.
> > > - 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?)
> >
> > All metrics are collected using the API. The API is authenticated via
> > auth
> > module came from Nova.Authenticate WSGI middleware which supports AWS
> > signature v2. It works well with LdapDriver. But we did not tested if
> > it is
> > working with keystone yet.
> >
> > Default metrics (i.e. CPUUtilization, disk IO, network IO) are
> > collected
> > from hypervisors. Custom metrics can be collected from in-instance or
> > any other source.
> >
> > Regards,
> > --
> > Joonwon Lee, principal software engineer, Samsung SDS
> >
> >
> > ------- Original Message -------
> > Sender : Eoghan Glynn
> > Date : 2012-10-10 18:59 (GMT+09:00)
> > Title : Re: [openstack-dev] Introducing Synaps project that provides
> > AWS CloudWatch compatible API
> >
> >
> >
> > > > > 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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