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> -----Original Message-----
> From: gord chung [mailto:gord at live.ca]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2016 3:52 PM
> 
> On 06/01/2016 8:11 AM, AFEK, Ifat (Ifat) wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > We would like to be notified once an alarm state is changed, so we
> prefer using the message bus.
> > As far as I understand, ceilometer and aodh APIs do not provide
> immediate notifications. If we use the APIs, we will have to poll the
> data periodically and look for changes, and we will get them in delay.
> By listening to the message bus we can get the notifications
> immediately, like we do with other openstack components.
> >
> > Is there an advantage in using the API instead?
> > And what do you mean by "aggregation on events data"? what kind of
> aggregations can we do?
> >
> >
> is the idea that you don't want to use a webhook to be notified? when
> an alarm is computed by aodh-evaluator, it sends this alarm (via
> message
> queue) to aodh-notifier which in turns does the webhook. if you just
> disable aodh-notifier, the alarm won't be consumed and you can listen
> to it yourself.

We have two motivations: one is that we want to get notifications on every change, but we don't want to register our webhook to each and every alarm; and the other is that we already listen to the message bus for other openstack components, so we would like to handle aodh the same way.

If we disable aodh-notifier, won't it have other impacts on the system? What if someone else used a webhook, and won't be notified because we disabled the notifier?

> alternatively, it was discussed that maybe adding a zaqar notifier
> would be useful. that way, aodh-notifier would send alarm to zaqar and
> you could configure it to requeue or maybe send a smtp.

What are the advantages of using Zaqar over using the message bus? Is the solution you suggested already supported? 

Thanks,
Ifat.