[openstack-dev] [Ceilometer]Ceilometer in Horizon

Brooklyn Chen yuanotes at gmail.com
Wed Dec 19 15:03:34 UTC 2012


Hi Matt,

Thank you for your help.  I love visualizations too. 

You are right. It's not easy to figure out how to design the UI now and I think I can implement it in text form now and then you can help to do some visualization work. :)

Brooklyn 
在 2012-12-19,下午6:04,Matt Joyce <matt.joyce at cloudscaling.com> 写道:

> I'd be down to help in my free time.  I love visualizations.  =D
> 
> The trick probably is the vis side of things.  Dependency sets in horizon have traditionally been troublesome due to the wide range of variance between supported platforms such as redhat and ubuntu.
> 
> Probably worth figuring out what we're going to do in regards to that.
> 
> -Matt
> 
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 2:00 AM, Brooklyn Chen <yuanotes at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I am new to ceilometer and I have some experiences in developing Horizon. This is a discussion about how to put ceilometer data in Hoirzon.
> 
> !!UX experts are needed to help!!
> 
> Related blueprints:
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/horizon/+spec/ceilometer
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ceilometer/+spec/horizon-plugin
> 
> I'd like to implement these blueprints(it's the same) to add ceilometer in Horizon. And there are some designing issues need to be addressed.
> 
> 1. Displaying data
> There are 3 kinds of data:
> 
> |    Type    |                  Definition                  |
> |------------|----------------------------------------------|
> | Cumulative | Increasing over time (instance hours)        |
> |------------|----------------------------------------------|
> | Gauge      | Discrete items (floating IPs, image uploads) |
> |            | and fluctuating values (disk I/O)            |
> |------------|----------------------------------------------|
> | Delta      | Changing over time (bandwidth)               |
> 
> Shall we use chart or just table to show these data?
> Table view is easy to implement but it's not intuitive.
> 
> 2. Where to put these data
> As you may know, these data are collected from openstack resources, such as instances, floating ip, vcpu hours, object store... (detail: http://docs.openstack.org/developer/ceilometer/measurements.html)
> 
> Shall we put these data on a new panel? Or in the Overview panel?
> 
> 
> 3. User Console and Admin Console
> If we put these data in admin console of Horizon, we need some mechanism to select user and tenant to filter resources.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Many thanks!
> 
> Brooklyn
> 
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