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On 2018-02-23 11:20 AM, Masha Atakova wrote:
> I reconfigured the setup accordingly, to use gnocchi as a storage, but 
> the problem is: ceilometer has multiple types of metrics while gnocchi 
> doesn’t have metric types at all.
> And it doesn’t really make sense to store metrics of cumulative type 
> (like compute.node.cpu.kernel.time, switch.port.receive.bytes, energy) 
> and of gauge type (like vcpus, volume.size, image.size) in one place.

i'm curious why this is an issue? they're just numbers. could you 
explain in case we missed a use case.

> 
> Have any of you faced this problem? If yes, what are the workarounds 
> that you’ve found sufficient?
> I’ve been thinking about different ways to handle this problem, like 
> converting data before it gets written to gnocchi, but I believe there 
> should be a better solution!

gnocchi does provide statistical/mathematical operations you can apply 
to the series. but again, not sure what issue you're encountering.

cheers,

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gord