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So, metrics are grouped by the type of resource they use, and each metric has to be listed.
Grouping isn't a problem, but creating an exhaustive list might be, since there are 100+ plugins [1] in collectd which can provide statistics, although not all of these are useful, and some require extensive configuration. The plugins each provide multiple metrics, and each metric can be duplicated for a number of instances, examples: [2].

Collectd data is minimal: timestamp and volume, so there's little room to find interesting meta data.
It would be nice to see this support integrated, but it might be very tedious to list all the metric names and group by resource type without any form of 
Do the resource definitions support wildcards? Collectd can provide A LOT of metrics.

Regards,
Emma

[1] https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Table_of_Plugins 
[2] https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Naming_schema 


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From: gordon chung [mailto:gord at live.ca] 
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2016 5:12 PM
To: openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [telemetry][ceilometer] New project: collectd-ceilometer-plugin

you can consider ceilometer database (and api) as an open-ended model designed to capture the full fidelity of a datapoint (something useful for auditing, post processing). alternatively, gnocchi is a strongly type model which captures only required data.

in the case of ceilometer -> gnocchi, the measurement data ceilometer collects is sent to gnocchi and mapped to specific resource types[1]. 
here we define all the resources and the metric mappings available. with regards to collectd, i'm just wondering what additional metrics are added and possibly any interesting metadata?

[1]
https://github.com/openstack/ceilometer/blob/master/etc/ceilometer/gnocchi_resources.yaml

On 25/01/2016 9:21 AM, Foley, Emma L wrote:
> I'm not overly familiar with Gnocchi, so I can't answer that off the bat, but I would be looking for answers to the following questions:
> What changes need to be made to gnocchi to accommodate regular data from ceilometer?
> Is there anything additional in Gnocchi's data model that is not part of Ceilometer?
>
> Regards,
> Emma
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gord chung [mailto:gord at live.ca]
> Sent: Friday, January 22, 2016 2:41 PM
> To: openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org
> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [telemetry][ceilometer] New project: 
> collectd-ceilometer-plugin
>
> nice! thanks Emma!
>
> i'm wondering if there's an additional metrics/resources we should add to gnocchi to accommodate the data?
>
> On 22/01/2016 6:11 AM, Foley, Emma L wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> A new plug-in for making collectd[1] stats available to Ceilometer [2] is ready for use.
>>
>> The collectd-ceilometer-plugin make system statistics from collectd available to Ceilometer.
>> These additional statistics make it easier to detect faults and identify performance bottlenecks (among other uses).
>>
>> Regards,
>> Emma
>>
>> [1] https://collectd.org/
>> [2] http://github.com/openstack/collectd-ceilometer-plugin
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