[Openstack-operators] [ceilometer] Is it possible to set how often a ceilometer alarm fires when continuous alarm is true?

gordon chung gord at live.ca
Fri Mar 4 15:10:14 UTC 2016


hi Mike,

the actual frequency of alerts corresponds to the frequency of alarm 
evaluations[1]. the evaluation frequency defaults to 60s but can be 
changed by setting 'evaluation_interval' option in your conf file.


On 03/03/2016 5:20 PM, Mike Smith wrote:
> We are using Ceilometer to tell us when it’s time to expand a server
> cluster based on cpu utilization.  When I turn on repeat-actions
> (continuous alarming), it alerts about every 20 seconds.  Is there any
> way to specify how often the continuous alarm fires?   I like the idea
> of continuous alarm for our use-case, but doing it multiple times per
> minute is excessive.
>
> I haven’t seen anything about this in the docs or in my search.  Help
> appreciated!
>
> Mike Smith
> Lead Cloud Systems Architect
> Overstock.com <http://Overstock.com>
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cheers,
-- 
gord



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