> It makes for a crappy user experience. Crappier than the crappy user > experience that OpenStack API users already have because we have done a > crappy job shepherding projects in order to make sure there isn't > overlap between their APIs (yes, Ceilometer and Monasca, I'm looking > directly at you). ... yes, Ceilometer can easily handle your events and meters and store them in either Elasticsearch or Gnocchi for visualisations. you just need to create a new definition in our mapping files[1][2]. you will definitely want to coordinate the naming of your messages. ie. event_type == backup.<ekko_scope> and event_type == backup.<freezer_scope>. [1] https://github.com/openstack/ceilometer/blob/master/etc/ceilometer/event_definitions.yaml [2] https://github.com/openstack/ceilometer/blob/master/ceilometer/meter/data/meters.yaml cheers, -- gord