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

Jay Pipes jaypipes at gmail.com
Tue Oct 4 16:12:25 UTC 2016


On 10/04/2016 11:53 AM, Hague, Darren wrote:
> 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.

Cool. Are you going to share the code for your k8s deployment of Ceilometer?

Best,
-jay



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