[openstack-dev] [telemetry] Deprecating the Ceilometer API

Hague, Darren d.hague at sap.com
Tue Oct 4 15:53:15 UTC 2016


On Tue, 4 Oct 2016, Chris Dent wrote:
On Tue, 4 Oct 2016, Julien Danjou wrote:
> 
> > Considering the split of Ceilometer in subprojects (Aodh and Panko)
> > during those last cycles, and the increasing usage of Gnocchi, I am
> > starting to wonder if it makes sense to maintain the legacy Ceilometer
> > API.
> 
> No surprise, as I've been saying this for a long time, but yeah, I think
> the API and storage should be deprecated. 
> 
> The data gathering (and to some extent transforming) parts are the only
> parts of ceilometer that are particularly unique so it would be good
> for those to be preserved.

That works for me - we removed the API and storage containers from our Kubernetes deployment of Ceilometer some time ago.
We use the collector's HTTP Dispatcher to send events and metrics to our billing database.


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