<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Ceilometer floatingip pollster currently polls the nova api to get the floating ip info periodically. But due to limitations in the nova api as listed in this bug[1], </span><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">the data ceilometer receives isn't all that useful. Nova doesn't return this info for all tenants. There has been some work in juno time frame but it was </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">reverted due to the fact that the nova api logs were being spammed [2]. </span><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Due to these concerns, the proposal now is to use the neutron api to get this data as proposed in this patch[3]. What we would like to know is,<div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">1. Is the data gathered from current floating ip pollster being used? if so how and what context ?</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">2. This might only be an issue for pure nova-network scenario, but even that i'm not sure how useful the current data we gather is?</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:12.8px">3. Are there any other concerns regarding this change that we should discuss? </div><div><br></div></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Any feedback appreciated,</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Thanks,</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">~ Pradeep</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">[1] <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1402514" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1402514</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">[2] <a href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-June/037304.html" target="_blank">http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-June/037304.html</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">[3] <a href="https://review.openstack.org/#/c/269369/" target="_blank">https://review.openstack.org/#/c/269369/</a></div><div><br></div>
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