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On 5/1/13 1:32 AM, Angus Salkeld wrote:
> On 30/04/13 11:28 +0200, Patrick Petit wrote:
>> Hi Angus and Steven,
>>
>> That is all good! I do share the opinion that we need to provide 
>> tools to register metrics via in-instance monitoring.
>> So, I'd like to suggest that we take on us the client side as an 
>> application driven use case for the metrics monitoring API 
>> extensions. It sounds natural to align that CLI to the CloudWatch 
>> style of publishing metrics and setting alarms because that's the way 
>> it's going to be encoded in the Heat templates. If your are fine with 
>> this, our contribution will focus on producing an in-instance 
>> cfn-push-stats atop of a functional equivalent of the AWS 
>> PutMericData interface. That would be a starting point based on the 
>> principal of dependency inversion. Can you please let us know if you 
>> are fine with this and where / how to start?
>
> Hi Patrick,
>
> I have some work to do before it's worth getting stuck in.
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/26185/
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/26367/
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/27691/ (more to follow here)
>
> Also Ceilometer might just go for a native sample posting API and
> not the AWS API. So in the short term hold off and I'll ping you
> when we can progress a bit more.
Okay let us know when it's most appropriate to jump in. Keep in mind 
that we'd like to contribute where it's most effective from a user 
standpoint that's why I mentioned dependency inversion regarding the 
metrics API...
Patrick
>
>
> -Angus