[Openstack-operators] ceilometer gnocchi switch in pike release
gordon chung
gord at live.ca
Fri Feb 23 17:54:58 UTC 2018
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,
--
gord
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