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On Jul 31, 2016 8:32 PM, "Sam Morrison" <sorrison at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Gordon,
>
> We are using the influxDB backend and we have our retention policies set
to:
>
> Every minute for an hour
> Every 10 minutes for a day
> Every hour for a year
>
> Currently we hover around 8,000 instances.
>
> We understand the influxDB driver was taken out of gnocchi, bit annoyed
as it wasn’t mentioned on the operators list.
> We currently have just got it working with version 2.1 of gnocchi and are
keen to see if it can be added back into gnocchi.
>
> We already use influxDB for other non openstack stuff and so would rather
use that as opposed to adding yet another system.
>
> Would be interested to know what other operators use gnocchi and what
backend they use.
>
I haven't implemented Gnocchi yet, but it's on my to do list. We are using
Influxdb for our collectd data and had planned to use that for Gnocchi as
well. +1 for putting the driver back in as I didn't know it was gone :(.

-Erik

> Cheers,
> Sam
>
>
> > On 29 Jul 2016, at 11:30 PM, gordon chung <gord at live.ca> wrote:
> >
> > hi folks,
> >
> > the Gnocchi dev team is working on pushing out a new serialization
> > format to improve disk footprint and while we're at it, we're looking at
> > other changes as well. to get a bit more insight to help decide what
> > changes we make, one useful metric would be to know what your
> > requirements are for storing data. as you may know Gnocchi does not
> > store raw datapoints but aggregates data to a specified granularity (eg.
> > 5s, 30s, 1min, 1 day, etc...). what we're after is what's the longest
> > timeseries you're capturing or hoping to capture? a datapoint every
> > minute for a day/week/month/year? a datapoint every 10mins for a
> > week/month/year? something else?
> >
> > your feedback would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> > --
> > gord
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