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> Hi all,
> 
> I'm looking for a way of how to meter the number of running instances (per
> tenant).
> 
> Currently, the Sum value in ceilometer statistics command's output is
> confusing, mostly because the high number of notifications generated by nova
> for each instance. As a result, also the graph in Resource Usage view does
> not
> seem really useful at least for 'instances' meter.
> 
> (See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ceilometer/+bug/1396257 for this problem)
> 
> So, what is the correct way? Should I group the statistics output by
> resource_id like
> 
> ceilometer statistics -m instance -q 'timestamp>2014-12-03T00' -g resource_id

You could use the new selectable cardinality aggregate added in icehouse,
e.g.

  ceilometer statistics -a 'cardinality<-resource_id' \
    -m instance -q 'timestamp>2014-12-03T00:00:00'

which counts the number of distinct value of a particular attribute
within the matching samples (in this cse, the instance UUID).

Cheers,
Eoghan

> and just count the number of resources in this output, which should (?) be
> the
> number of running instances?
> 
> Jiri
> 
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