Hi, Steve asked the following question on IRC [1] < sjmc7> hi gibi. sorry, meant to bring this up in the notifications meeting but i had to step away for a bit. we were having a discussion last week about the field that the API returns as 'status' - do the notifications have an equivalent? I will try to answer it here so others can chime in. Internally in nova an instance has vm_state, task_state and power_state. On the REST API the instance has status which is calculated from vm_state and task_state. See the code doing the conversion here [2]. The instance notifications contain both the vm_state, task_state and power_state of the instance but do not contain the calculated status value [3]. The instance.update notification has extra state fields to signal possible state transitions [4]. Technically we can add the calculated status field to the notifications but it is not there at the moment. So if searchlight needs that info right now then it needs to be calculated on searchlight side based on the vm_state and the task_state from the notification. Adding this field can be a continuation of the bp additional-notification-fields-for-searchlight [5] in Queens. Cheers, gibi [1] http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/irclogs/%23openstack-nova/%23openstack-nova.2017-07-18.log.html#t2017-07-18T17:39:36 [2] https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/a4a9733f4a9ead01356f0f76c1bb1f04f905fa4e/nova/api/openstack/common.py#L113 [3] https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/2e4417d57cb6f74664c5746b43db9a96797f33e9/nova/notifications/objects/instance.py#L52-L54 [4] https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/2e4417d57cb6f74664c5746b43db9a96797f33e9/nova/notifications/objects/instance.py#L352 [5] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/additional-notification-fields-for-searchlight