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On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 2:24 AM, Sandy Walsh <sandy.walsh at rackspace.com>
wrote:

>  >From: Angus Salkeld <asalkeld at mirantis.com>
> >Sent: Wednesday, April 8, 2015 8:24 PM
> >To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
> >Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [all] how to send messages (and events) to
> our users
> >
> >
> >I also want to point out that what I'd actually rather see is that all
> >of the services provide functionality like this. Users would be served
> >by having an event stream from Nova telling them when their instances
> >are active, deleted, stopped, started, error, etc.
> >
> >Also, I really liked Sandy's suggestion to use the notifications on the
> >backend, and then funnel them into something that the user can consume.
> >The project they have, yagi, for putting them into atom feeds is pretty
> >interesting. If we could give people a simple API that says "subscribe
> >to Nova/Cinder/Heat/etc. notifications for instance X, and put them
> >in an atom feed", that seems like something that would make sense as
> >an under-the-cloud service that would be relatively low cost and would
> >ultimately reduce load on API servers.
> >
> >"an under-the-clould service" ? - That is not what I am after here.
> >
>
>  Yeah, we're using this as an "under cloud" service. Our notifications
> are only
> consumed internally, so it's not a multi-tenant/SaaS solution.
>
>  >
> >What I am really after is a general OpenStack solution for how end users
> can
>  >consume service notifications (and replace "heat event-list").
> >
> >
> >Right now there is "ceilometer event-list", but as some Ceilometer devs
> have said,
> >they don't want to store every notification that comes.
> >
> >So is the yagi + atom hopper solution something we can point end-users to?
> >Is it per-tenant etc...
>
>  However, there is a team within Rax working on this SaaS offering:
> Peter Kazmir and Joe Savak. I'll let them respond with their lessons on
> AtomHopper, etc.
>

Great, thanks Sandy. It would be good to see what this is (is it just
Zaqar? or something totally different).



>
>  >Sandy, do you have a write up somewhere on how to set this up so I can
> experiment a bit?
>
>  Yagi: https://github.com/rackerlabs/yagi
>  AtomHopper: http://atomhopper.org/  (java warning)
>
>  The StackTach.v3 sandbox is DevStack-for-Notifications. It simulates
> notifications (no openstack deploy needed) and it has Yagi set up to
> consume them. There's also Vagrant scripts to get you going.
>
>  http://www.stacktach.com/install.html
>  https://github.com/stackforge/stacktach-sandbox
>
>  and some, slightly older, screencasts on the Sandbox here:
>  http://www.stacktach.com/screencasts.html​
>
>  We're in the #stacktach channel, by all means ping us if you run into
> problems.
> Or if a Hangout works better for you, just scream :)
>

Thanks for the help!

-Angus

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