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Hi Julien, 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julien Danjou [mailto:julien at danjou.info]
> Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2015 4:27 PM
>
> I think that I would be more interested by connecting Nagios to
> Ceilometer/Gnocchi/Aodh with maybe the long-term goal of replacing it
> by that stack, which should be more scalable and dynamic.
> 
> That would make Vitrage only needing to build on top of telemetry
> projects. It would also bring Nagios & co to telemetry not only for
> Vitrage, but for the whole stack.
> 
> Maybe there's some good reasons you're going the way you do, I don't
> have the pretension to have though about that as long as you probably
> did. :-)

Our goal is to get as much information as we can from various data 
sources. If you connect Nagios to telemetry project, and we can get 
nagios alarms directly from Aodh, it would be great. Is it something 
that you planned on doing for Mitaka?

> Do you have something like a MVP based on Telemetry you target? I saw
> you were already talking about Horizon, which to me is something that
> (sh|c)ould be way further into the pipeline, so I'm worried. ;)

Our current use cases focus on giving value to the cloud admin. These 
are mostly UI use cases; the admin will be able to:

- view the topology of his environment, the relations between the 
physical, virtual and applicative layer and the statuses all resources
- view the alarms history (there is an existing blueprint for it[1])
- view alarms about problems that Vitrage deduced could happen, even
if no other OpenStack component reported these problems (yet)
- view RCA information about the alarms

In order to support these use cases, we will get input from various 
data sources, process and evaluate it based on configurable templates, 
trigger new alarms in Aodh and calculate RCA information. 
On top of it, we will have Vitrage API to query the information and
show it in horizon. 
In case you haven't seen in yet, our high level architecture is on 
Vitrage main page[2], and in the coming days we plan to document also 
the lower level design.

Best Regards,
Ifat.


[1] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/horizon/+spec/ceilometer-alarm-management-page
[2] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Vitrage