[openstack-dev] [Ceilometer][Metering] Metadata on Meter table - use cases from StackTach ...

Doug Hellmann doug.hellmann at dreamhost.com
Wed Jan 30 20:59:43 UTC 2013


On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Julien Danjou <julien at danjou.info> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 30 2013, Doug Hellmann wrote:
>
> > StackTach is answering questions we aren't, yet, like "how long did an
> > operation take?", "what actually happened during processing of the
> > request?", etc. I think we would benefit from adding at least some of
> that
> > to ceilometer, particularly for SLA auditing. I agree with Angus'
> > suggestion of adding new models, though, rather than trying to squeeze it
> > into the existing data model as Sandy seems to be suggesting in the
> video.
> > We would also likely want a new API endpoint for querying the new types
> of
> > data.
>
> Err. You're describing a different project doing something totally
> different than what Ceilometer currently does, where the only common
> point with Ceilometer is that it consumes notifications.
> So I don't think we disagree here. This has nothing to do with the
> current state of what Ceilometer is.
>
> Blending a new project doing that under the Ceilometer name is likely
> extending again the scope of our project somehow (not that I'm against
> it).
>

I see your point. It seemed like another sort of monitoring, though, and
we've already been discussing bringing that in.

Doug


>
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> Julien Danjou
> // Free Software hacker & freelance
> // http://julien.danjou.info
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