Gordon Chung wrote on 2013-08-29: > so we're in the process of selling Ceilometer to product teams so that > they'll adopt it and we'll get more funding :). one item that comes > up from product teams is 'what will Ceilometer be able to do and where does > the product takeover and add value?' > > the first question is, Ceilometer currently does metering/alarming/maybe a > few other things... will it go beyond that? specifically: capacity > planning, optimization, dashboard(i assume this falls under > horizon/ceilometer plugin work), analytics. > they're pretty broad items so i would think they would probably end up being > separate projects? > > another question is what metrics will we capture. some of the product teams > we have collect metrics on datacenter memory/cpu > utilization, cluster cpu/memory/vm, and a bunch of other clustered stuff. > i'm a nova-idiot, but is this info possible to retrieve? is the consensus > that Ceilometer will collect anything and everything the other projects > allow for? > We're currently implementing a plugin-able framework in nova to collect metrics from nova compute nodes and send them into message bus, see https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/utilization-aware-scheduling for the patches of that, and also the corresponding ceilometer's notification listener https://review.openstack.org/42838 for that.
Besides, the ceilometer hardware agent(https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ceilometer/+spec/monitoring-physical-devices)is the place where to poll for data from any other physical hosts. -Lianhao _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
