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I know customers are using the 'pushing sample API', but don’t know whether they're applying transformer to those data or not.

-Lianhao Lu

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julien Danjou [mailto:julien at danjou.info]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2016 12:35 AM
> To: gordon chung
> Cc: openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org
> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [telemetry] Deprecating the Ceilometer
> API
> 
> On Tue, Oct 04 2016, gordon chung wrote:
> 
> > so one thing we probably do need to keep is the ability push samples
> > (and events?). i know previously people were actually using this
> feature.
> 
> That's debatable.
> 
> Pushing events is IMHO out of scope of Ceilometer – it's related to
> oslo.messaging notification at this point. So if we want to allow that via
> an API endpoint, we should build one in OpenStack over
> oslo.messaging. Good idea or not, I don't know.
> 
> Pushing samples is probably doable with some kind of small API, but I
> am not sure it's worth anything. You could still directly push the data to
> Gnocchi and save some you some load. Unless you have transformers
> to apply, but… really?
> 
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