[openstack-dev] [heat] is cloudwatch really deprecated?

Zane Bitter zbitter at redhat.com
Fri Apr 17 18:29:24 UTC 2015


On 17/04/15 13:54, Matt Fischer wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Zane Bitter <zbitter at redhat.com
> <mailto:zbitter at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 17/04/15 12:46, Matt Fischer wrote:
>
>         The wiki for Using Cloudwatch states:
>
>         "This feature will be deprecated or removed during the Havana
>         cycle as
>         we move to using Ceilometer as a metric/alarm service instead." [1]
>
>         However it seems that cloudwatch is still being developed.
>
>
>     It doesn't seem that way to me, and without at least some kind of
>     hint I'm not in a position to speculate on why it might seem that
>     way to you.
>
>         So is it deprecated or not?
>
>
>     Yes, it's very deprecated.
>
>     In fact, we should go ahead and disable it in the default config.
>
>     - ZB
>
>
> I was just looking at the dates in the commit log for the cloudwatch
> folder and seeing things from 2015. If it's truly deprecated, that's
> great, I'll remove it from my environment.

OK, that's what I looked at too, and there were a lot of recent changes 
but they all appeared to be global cleanups that went across the whole 
Heat codebase. The last thing that looked like active development was in 
July 2013. You definitely won't regret removing it ;)

cheers,
Zane.



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