Re: [Openstack] Notification Usage in OpenStack ... a report card

2013-09-18 Thread Sandy Walsh
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Re: [Openstack] Notification Usage in OpenStack ... a report card

2013-09-18 Thread Sandy Walsh
Email: flw...@cn.ibm.com China Systems Technology Laboratory in Beijing - Inactive hide details for Sandy Walsh ---09/18/2013 08:43:03 PM---On 09/18/2013 04:49 AM, Fei Long Wang wrote: Hi Sandy,Sandy Walsh ---09/18/2013

Re: [Openstack] Notification Usage in OpenStack ... a report card

2013-09-19 Thread Sandy Walsh
makes sense. I've updated the report to reflect his. It would be nice to have the notification driver available out of the box (perhaps as a plugin). Cheers -S -Josh On 9/16/13 11:20 AM, Sandy Walsh sandy.wa...@rackspace.com wrote: Hey y'all! I took a little time to review most

Re: [Openstack] [openstack-dev] Does openstack have a notification system that will let us know when a server changes state ?

2013-10-20 Thread Sandy Walsh
Notifications work great. Actually StackTach has a web interface where you can watch the notifications coming through in real-time. We're slowing trying to get Ceilometer to have this functionality. StackTach works with Nova and Glance events currently. https://github.com/rackerlabs/stacktach

Re: [Openstack] [Ceilometer] Ceilometer not fetching Nova Compute Notifications compute.instance.create.start/end

2013-12-09 Thread Sandy Walsh
Ceilometer, as it stands, ignores most notifications. We are working on full event capture, but it's not there yet. If you need to capture all events today, you might want to consider looking at StackTach https://github.com/rackerlabs/stacktach -S

Re: [Openstack] [metering][ceilometer] instance uptime meter in Ceilometer?

2014-01-13 Thread Sandy Walsh
On 01/12/2014 10:03 PM, Shengjie Min wrote: Hey guys, In Ceilometer, is there a type of meter allows me to charge users based on the uptime of the instances they have instead of cpu, memory utilisation? All the best, Shengjie You may want to look at StackTach. It collects

Re: [Openstack] 回复: Python Design Patterns in OpenStack

2014-02-28 Thread Sandy Walsh
OpenStack (and Python in general) isn't big on the classic Gang-of-Four Design Patterns. OpenStack code seems to stem more from a set of idioms starting with https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/BasicDesignTenets Beyond that, PEP8 and the HACKING guide are table-stakes. From there, look at the main

Re: [Openstack] Announcing Dwarf - OpenStack API on top of libvirt/kvm

2014-03-06 Thread Sandy Walsh
Cool idea! -S From: Juerg Haefliger [jue...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 7:00 AM To: openstack@lists.openstack.org Openstack Subject: [Openstack] Announcing Dwarf - OpenStack API on top of libvirt/kvm Hi all, I have this little pet project of mine

Re: [Openstack] VM events from OpenStack

2014-04-16 Thread Sandy Walsh
Hi! Nova can publish notifications on the queue whenever anything important happens. https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/SystemUsageData Tools like YAGI can consume these events and send them to downstream systems. Or you could use something like StackTach to consume them and expose them via a

Re: [Openstack] Getting eventing information

2014-05-20 Thread Sandy Walsh
On 5/20/2014 7:32 AM, Narayanan, Krishnaprasad wrote: Hallo all, In our project, I need information about the VM related operations such as creation, deletion, resizing, migration, reboot, etc. In one of my earlier emails dated on 16th April 2014, I received replies from the forum about the

Re: [Openstack] Getting eventing information

2014-05-21 Thread Sandy Walsh
Side note: many groups are using StackTach to collect and persist the events and then just accessing the StackTach database directly to generate their usage/performance reports. From: Narayanan, Krishnaprasad [naray...@uni-mainz.de] Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Re: [Openstack] [metering] Considerations and Roadmap in Ceilometer (or other component) for Financial Management

2014-06-02 Thread Sandy Walsh
Hi Lee, At Rackspace we use StackTach to gather our billing/usage information (with verification and reconciliation). We are heavy into our v3 development currently. While we haven't addressed the financial aspects of billing it might be something worth talking about, though it's a little

Re: [Openstack] Zabbix

2014-09-05 Thread Sandy Walsh
From: Michael Mester (micmeste) [micme...@cisco.com] Guys, Im curious on who is using Zabbix to monitor their openstack deployment. I know there is quite a bit of value to having the single pane of glass as well as the scripting and API capabilities. I have

Re: [Openstack] is anyone using zeromq for RPC?

2014-09-05 Thread Sandy Walsh
From: Doug Hellmann [d...@doughellmann.com] The zmq driver in oslo.messaging, used for internal communication between OpenStack services, has been without a maintainer for a significant period of time. It isn’t actively tested, and it isn’t clear whether or not it works. The Oslo team would like

Re: [Openstack] is anyone using zeromq for RPC?

2014-09-06 Thread Sandy Walsh
From: Doug Hellmann [d...@doughellmann.com] On Sep 5, 2014, at 11:13 PM, Sandy Walsh sandy.wa...@rackspace.com wrote: From: Doug Hellmann [d...@doughellmann.com] The zmq driver in oslo.messaging, used for internal communication between OpenStack services, has been without a maintainer

Re: [Openstack] Billing System Recommendation

2014-09-24 Thread Sandy Walsh
While not a billing system. Rackspace (and some others) use StackTach to collect accurate (and verified) usage data from Nova and Glance. https://github.com/stackforge/stacktach We're getting close to GA for our new StackTach architecture (v3), which we will be demoing at the Paris summit.

Re: [Openstack] Messaging reliability/durability expectations

2014-10-14 Thread Sandy Walsh
Sort of. Openstack RPC-over-AMQP (oslo.messaging) automatically ack()'s all messages that are received. So, it becomes the responsibility of the sender to retry. For example, the scheduler in Nova does this. However, if the client fails before getting the message, AMQP will automatically

Re: [Openstack] Action notification in nova for delete an instance

2015-03-02 Thread Sandy Walsh
Enable notifications on the compute nodes and you'll get compute.instance.create.end and compute.instance.delete.end notifications for these operations. It sounds like you only have them enabled on the scheduler/api nodes currently. https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/SystemUsageData

Re: [Openstack] Prometheus and open stack

2015-02-26 Thread Sandy Walsh
?Been keeping an eye on that project, but don't know of anyone running it against OpenStack. Certainly shows promise though. You may want to look at Monasca first though ... a little more tailored to the OpenStack world. The monitoring/logging and big data world seem to be circling on

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc][ceilometer] Some background on the gnocchi project

2014-08-11 Thread Sandy Walsh
On 8/11/2014 4:22 PM, Eoghan Glynn wrote: Hi Eoghan, Thanks for the note below. However, one thing the overview below does not cover is why InfluxDB ( http://influxdb.com/ ) is not being leveraged. Many folks feel that this technology is a viable solution for the problem space discussed

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc][ceilometer] Some background on the gnocchi project

2014-08-11 Thread Sandy Walsh
On 8/11/2014 5:29 PM, Eoghan Glynn wrote: On 8/11/2014 4:22 PM, Eoghan Glynn wrote: Hi Eoghan, Thanks for the note below. However, one thing the overview below does not cover is why InfluxDB ( http://influxdb.com/ ) is not being leveraged. Many folks feel that this technology is a viable

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc][ceilometer] Some background on the gnocchi project

2014-08-11 Thread Sandy Walsh
On 8/11/2014 6:49 PM, Eoghan Glynn wrote: On 8/11/2014 4:22 PM, Eoghan Glynn wrote: Hi Eoghan, Thanks for the note below. However, one thing the overview below does not cover is why InfluxDB ( http://influxdb.com/ ) is not being leveraged. Many folks feel that this technology is a viable

Re: [openstack-dev] Annoucing CloudKitty : an OpenSource Rating-as-a-Service project for OpenStack

2014-08-14 Thread Sandy Walsh
Sounds very interesting. We're currently collecting detailed (and verified) usage information in StackTach and are keen to see what CloudKitty is able to offer. My one wish is that you keep the components as small pip redistributables with low coupling to promote reuse with other projects. Many

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][core] Expectations of core reviewers

2014-08-14 Thread Sandy Walsh
On 8/14/2014 11:28 AM, Russell Bryant wrote: On 08/14/2014 10:04 AM, CARVER, PAUL wrote: Daniel P. Berrange [mailto:berra...@redhat.com] wrote: Depending on the usage needs, I think Google hangouts is a quite useful technology. For many-to-many session its limit of 10 participants can be an

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][core] Expectations of core reviewers

2014-08-15 Thread Sandy Walsh
Maybe we need to think about this from a distributed software perspective? * Divide and Conquer? Can we split the topics to create more manageable sub-groups? This way it's not core-vs-non-core but intererested-vs-moderately-interested. (of course, this is much the way the mailing list

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] The future of the integrated release

2014-08-15 Thread Sandy Walsh
On 8/14/2014 6:42 PM, Doug Hellmann wrote: On Aug 14, 2014, at 4:41 PM, Joe Gordon joe.gord...@gmail.commailto:joe.gord...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Doug Hellmann d...@doughellmann.commailto:d...@doughellmann.com wrote: On Aug 13, 2014, at 3:05 PM, Eoghan Glynn

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] The future of the integrated release

2014-08-16 Thread Sandy Walsh
On 8/16/2014 10:09 AM, Chris Dent wrote: On Fri, 15 Aug 2014, Sandy Walsh wrote: I recently suggested that the Ceilometer API (and integration tests) be separated from the implementation (two repos) so others might plug in a different implementation while maintaining compatibility

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] The future of the integrated release

2014-08-19 Thread Sandy Walsh
On 8/18/2014 9:27 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote: Clint Byrum wrote: Here's why folk are questioning Ceilometer: Nova is a set of tools to abstract virtualization implementations. Neutron is a set of tools to abstract SDN/NFV implementations. Cinder is a set of tools to abstract block-device

[openstack-dev] StackTach.v3 - Screencasts ...

2014-08-22 Thread Sandy Walsh
Hey y'all, We've started a screencast series on the StackTach.v3 dev efforts [1]. It's still early-days, so subscribe to the playlist for updates. The videos start with the StackTach/Ceilometer integration presentation at the Hong Kong summit, which is useful for background and motivation but

Re: [openstack-dev] Treating notifications as a contract

2014-09-03 Thread Sandy Walsh
Is there anything slated for the Paris summit around this? I just spent nearly a week parsing Nova notifications and the pain of no schema has overtaken me. We're chatting with IBM about CADF and getting down to specifics on their applicability to notifications. Once I get StackTach.v3 into

Re: [openstack-dev] Treating notifications as a contract

2014-09-03 Thread Sandy Walsh
On 9/3/2014 11:32 AM, Chris Dent wrote: On Wed, 3 Sep 2014, Sandy Walsh wrote: We're chatting with IBM about CADF and getting down to specifics on their applicability to notifications. Once I get StackTach.v3 into production I'm keen to get started on revisiting the notification format

Re: [openstack-dev] Treating notifications as a contract (CADF)

2014-09-04 Thread Sandy Walsh
. It's just a strawman, so bend/spindle/mutilate. Look forward to feedback! -S [1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/NotificationsAndCADF On 9/3/2014 12:30 PM, Sandy Walsh wrote: On 9/3/2014 11:32 AM, Chris Dent wrote: On Wed, 3 Sep 2014, Sandy Walsh wrote: We're chatting with IBM about CADF

Re: [openstack-dev] StackTach.v3 - Screencasts ...

2014-09-05 Thread Sandy Walsh
For those of you playing the home game ... just added four new screencasts to the StackTach.v3 playlist. These are technical deep dives into the code added over the last week or so, with demos. For the more complex topics I spend a little time on the background and rationale. StackTach.v3:

Re: [openstack-dev] Treating notifications as a contract

2014-09-10 Thread Sandy Walsh
Jay Pipes - Wednesday, September 10, 2014 3:56 PM On 09/03/2014 11:21 AM, Sandy Walsh wrote: On 9/3/2014 11:32 AM, Chris Dent wrote: I took some notes on this a few weeks ago and extracted what seemed to be the two main threads or ideas the were revealed by the conversation that happened

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] - do we need .start and .end notifications in all cases ?

2014-09-22 Thread Sandy Walsh
Hey Phil, (sorry for top-post, web client) There's no firm rule for requiring .start/.end and I think your criteria defines it well. Long running transactions (or multi complex-step transactions). The main motivator behind .start/.end code was .error notifications not getting generated in many

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] - do we need .start and .end notifications in all cases ?

2014-09-22 Thread Sandy Walsh
+1, the high-level code should deal with top-level exceptions and generate .error notifications (though it's a little spotty). Ideally we shouldn't need three events for simple operations. The use of .start/.end vs. logging is a bit of a blurry line. At its heart a notification should provide

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] - do we need .start and .end notifications in all cases ?

2014-09-22 Thread Sandy Walsh
From: Jay Pipes [jaypi...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 22, 2014 11:51 AM To: openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] - do we need .start and .end notifications in all cases ? On 09/22/2014 07:37 AM, Sandy Walsh wrote

Re: [openstack-dev] [Ceilometer] Nomination of Sandy Walsh to core team

2013-12-10 Thread Sandy Walsh
) Subject: [openstack-dev] [Ceilometer] Nomination of Sandy Walsh to core team Hi There! I¹m not 100% sure what the process is around electing an individual to the core team (i.e., can a non-core person nominate someone?). However, I believe the ceilometer core team could use a member who is more

Re: [openstack-dev] Healthnmon

2013-12-18 Thread Sandy Walsh
On 12/18/2013 06:28 AM, Oleg Gelbukh wrote: I would copy that question. Looks like integration plan didn't work out, and healthnmon development either stalled or gone shadow.. Anyone have information on that? I think that's the case. There was no mention of Healthnmon at the last summit.

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] How do we format/version/deprecate things from notifications?

2013-12-18 Thread Sandy Walsh
On 12/18/2013 01:44 PM, Nikola Đipanov wrote: On 12/18/2013 06:17 PM, Matt Riedemann wrote: On 12/18/2013 9:42 AM, Matt Riedemann wrote: The question came up in this patch [1], how do we deprecate and remove keys in the notification payload? In this case I need to deprecate and replace

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] How do we format/version/deprecate things from notifications?

2013-12-18 Thread Sandy Walsh
On 12/18/2013 03:00 PM, Russell Bryant wrote: We really need proper versioning for notifications. We've had a blueprint open for about a year, but AFAICT, nobody is actively working on it. https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/versioned-notifications IBM is behind this effort

Re: [openstack-dev] [Heat] [Nova] [oslo] [Ceilometer] about notifications : huge and may be non secure

2014-01-29 Thread Sandy Walsh
On 01/29/2014 11:50 AM, Swann Croiset wrote: Hi stackers, I would like to sharemy wonder here about Notifications. I'm working [1] on Heat notifications and I noticed that : 1/ Heat uses his context to store 'password' 2/ Heat and Nova store 'auth_token' in context too. Didn't check

Re: [openstack-dev] [oslo-notify] notifications consumed by multiple subscribers

2014-02-11 Thread Sandy Walsh
The notification system can specify multiple queues to publish to, so each of your dependent services can feed from a separate queue. However, this is a critical bug in oslo.messaging that has broken this feature. https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1277204 Hopefully it'll get fixed quickly

[openstack-dev] Gamification and on-boarding ...

2014-02-12 Thread Sandy Walsh
At the Nova mid-cycle meetup we've been talking about the problem of helping new contributors. It got into a discussion of karma, code reviews, bug fixes and establishing a name for yourself before screaming in a chat room can someone look at my branch. We want this experience to be positive,

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] What is the currently accepted way to do plugins

2014-03-04 Thread Sandy Walsh
This brings up something that's been gnawing at me for a while now ... why use entry-point based loaders at all? I don't see the problem they're trying to solve. (I thought I got it for a while, but I was clearly fooling myself) 1. If you use the load all drivers in this category feature,

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] What is the currently accepted way to do plugins

2014-03-04 Thread Sandy Walsh
And sorry, as to your original problem, the loadables approach is kinda messy since only the classes that are loaded when *that* module are loaded are used (vs. explicitly specifying them in a config). You may get different results when the flow changes. Either entry-points or config would give

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] What is the currently accepted way to do plugins

2014-03-04 Thread Sandy Walsh
On 03/04/2014 05:00 PM, Kevin L. Mitchell wrote: On Tue, 2014-03-04 at 12:11 -0800, Dan Smith wrote: Now, the actual concern is not related to any of that, but about whether we're going to open this up as a new thing we support. In general, my reaction to adding new APIs people expect to be

Re: [openstack-dev] [Mistral] Crack at a Real life workflow

2014-03-06 Thread Sandy Walsh
DSL's are tricky beasts. On one hand I like giving a tool to non-developers so they can do their jobs, but I always cringe when the DSL reinvents the wheel for basic stuff (compound assignment expressions, conditionals, etc). YAML isn't really a DSL per se, in the sense that it has no language

Re: [openstack-dev] [Mistral] Crack at a Real life workflow

2014-03-06 Thread Sandy Walsh
language implement the basics (expressions, assignment...) and then building the domain ontop of that. Just seems more natural IMHO, and is similar to what linq (in c#) has done. My 3 cents. Sent from my really tiny device... On Mar 6, 2014, at 5:33 AM, Sandy Walsh sandy.wa

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] RFC - using Gerrit for Nova Blueprint review approval

2014-03-07 Thread Sandy Walsh
Yep, great idea. Do it. On 03/07/2014 02:53 AM, Chris Behrens wrote: On Mar 6, 2014, at 11:09 AM, Russell Bryant rbry...@redhat.com wrote: […] I think a dedicated git repo for this makes sense. openstack/nova-blueprints or something, or openstack/nova-proposals if we want to be a bit less

Re: [openstack-dev] [oslo.messaging] mongodb notification driver

2014-03-12 Thread Sandy Walsh
You may want to consider StackTach for troubleshooting (that's what it was initially created for) https://github.com/rackerlabs/stacktach It will consume and record the events as well as give you a gui and cmdline tools for tracing calls by server, request_id, event type, etc. Ping me if you

Re: [openstack-dev] [Marconi][TC] Withdraw graduation request

2014-03-20 Thread Sandy Walsh
Big +1 From: Jay Pipes [jaypi...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 8:18 PM To: openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Marconi][TC] Withdraw graduation request This is a very mature stance and well-written email. Thanks,

Re: [openstack-dev] [oslo] ordering of notification 'events' in oslo.messaging

2014-03-31 Thread Sandy Walsh
On 03/31/2014 10:55 AM, Gordon Sim wrote: I believe that ordering of notifications at different levels is not guaranteed when receiving those notifications using a notification listener in olso.messaging. I.e. with something like: notifier = notifier.Notifier(get_transport(CONF),

Re: [openstack-dev] [ceilometer] PTL candidacy

2014-04-02 Thread Sandy Walsh
On 04/02/2014 05:47 PM, Gordon Chung wrote: I'd like to announce my candidacy for PTL of Ceilometer. Woot! ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev

Re: [openstack-dev] [Ceilometer] Notifications from non-local exchanges

2013-10-10 Thread Sandy Walsh
On 10/10/2013 06:16 PM, Neal, Phil wrote: Greetings all, I'm looking at how to expand the ability of our CM instance to consume notifications and have a quick question about the configuration and flow... For the notifications central agent , we rely on the services (i.e. glance, cinder)

Re: [openstack-dev] [Ceilometer] Notifications from non-local exchanges

2013-10-15 Thread Sandy Walsh
On 10/15/2013 12:28 PM, Neal, Phil wrote: -Original Message- From: Sandy Walsh [mailto:sandy.wa...@rackspace.com] Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 6:20 PM To: openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Ceilometer] Notifications from non-local exchanges

Re: [openstack-dev] Does openstack have a notification system that will let us know when a server changes state ?

2013-10-20 Thread Sandy Walsh
Notifications work great. Actually StackTach has a web interface where you can watch the notifications coming through in real-time. We're slowing trying to get Ceilometer to have this functionality. StackTach works with Nova and Glance events currently. https://github.com/rackerlabs/stacktach

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO][Nova][neutron][Heat][Oslo][Ceilometer][Havana]Single Subscription Point for event notification

2013-10-28 Thread Sandy Walsh
Here's the current adoption of notifications in OpenStack ... hope it helps! http://www.sandywalsh.com/2013/09/notification-usage-in-openstack-report.html -S From: Qing He [qing...@radisys.com] Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 8:48 PM To: OpenStack

[openstack-dev] [Ceilometer] Suggestions for alarm improvements ...

2013-10-29 Thread Sandy Walsh
Hey y'all, Here are a few notes I put together around some ideas for alarm improvements. In order to set it up I spent a little time talking about the Ceilometer architecture in general, including some of the things we have planned for IceHouse. I think Parts 1-3 will be useful to anyone

Re: [openstack-dev] [Heat] Locking and ZooKeeper - a space oddysey

2013-10-30 Thread Sandy Walsh
On 10/30/2013 03:10 PM, Steven Dake wrote: I will -2 any patch that adds zookeeper as a dependency to Heat. Certainly any distributed locking solution should be plugin based and optional. Just as a database-oriented solution could be the default plugin. Re: the Java issue, we already have

Re: [openstack-dev] [Heat] Locking and ZooKeeper - a space oddysey

2013-10-30 Thread Sandy Walsh
of this test splitting in general anyway. -S On 10/30/2013 04:20 PM, Sandy Walsh wrote: On 10/30/2013 03:10 PM, Steven Dake wrote: I will -2 any patch that adds zookeeper as a dependency to Heat. Certainly any distributed locking solution should be plugin based and optional. Just as a database

Re: [openstack-dev] [Heat] Locking and ZooKeeper - a space oddysey

2013-10-30 Thread Sandy Walsh
On 10/30/2013 04:44 PM, Robert Collins wrote: On 31 October 2013 08:37, Sandy Walsh sandy.wa...@rackspace.com wrote: Doh, sorry, left out the important part I had originally intended. The ZK unit tests could be split to not run by default, but if you're a ZK shop ... run them yourself

Re: [openstack-dev] [Heat] Locking and ZooKeeper - a space oddysey

2013-10-31 Thread Sandy Walsh
On 10/30/2013 08:08 PM, Steven Dake wrote: On 10/30/2013 12:20 PM, Sandy Walsh wrote: On 10/30/2013 03:10 PM, Steven Dake wrote: I will -2 any patch that adds zookeeper as a dependency to Heat. Certainly any distributed locking solution should be plugin based and optional. Just

Re: [openstack-dev] [Heat] Locking and ZooKeeper - a space oddysey

2013-10-31 Thread Sandy Walsh
On 10/31/2013 11:43 AM, Monty Taylor wrote: Yes. I'm strongly opposed to ZooKeeper finding its way into the already complex pile of things we use. Monty, is that just because the stack is very complicated now, or something personal against ZK (or Java specifically)? Curious. -S

Re: [openstack-dev] When is it okay for submitters to say 'I don't want to add tests' ?

2013-10-31 Thread Sandy Walsh
On 10/30/2013 11:37 PM, Robert Collins wrote: This is a bit of a social norms thread I've been consistently asking for tests in reviews for a while now, and I get the occasional push-back. I think this falls into a few broad camps: A - there is no test suite at all, adding one in

Re: [openstack-dev] [Oslo] Improving oslo-incubator update.py

2013-11-23 Thread Sandy Walsh
Seeing this thread reminded me: We need support in the update script for entry points in olso setup.cfg to make their way into the target project. So, if update is getting some love, please keep that in mind. ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list

Re: [openstack-dev] Adding notifications to Horizon

2013-11-25 Thread Sandy Walsh
+1 on the inline method. It makes it clear when a notification should be emitted and, as you say, handles the exception handling better. Also, if it makes sense for Horizon, consider bracketing long-running operations in .start/.end pairs. This will help with performance tuning and early error

[openstack-dev] [Ceilometer] storage driver testing

2013-11-27 Thread Sandy Walsh
Hey! We've ballparked that we need to store a million events per day. To that end, we're flip-flopping between sql and no-sql solutions, hybrid solutions that include elastic search and other schemes. Seems every road we go down has some limitations. So, we've started working on test suite for

Re: [openstack-dev] [Ceilometer] storage driver testing

2013-11-29 Thread Sandy Walsh
On 11/29/2013 11:41 AM, Julien Danjou wrote: On Fri, Nov 29 2013, Nadya Privalova wrote: I'm very interested in performance results for Ceilometer. Now we have successfully installed Ceilometer in the HA-lab with 200 computes and 3 controllers. Now it works pretty good with MySQL. Our next

Re: [openstack-dev] [Ceilometer] storage driver testing

2013-11-29 Thread Sandy Walsh
, where the bottlenecks are coming from, etc. It might be nice to standardize on that so we can compare results? -S Thanks, Nadya On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 9:42 PM, Sandy Walsh sandy.wa...@rackspace.com mailto:sandy.wa...@rackspace.com wrote: Hey! We've ballparked that we

Re: [openstack-dev] [oslo] maintenance policy for code graduating from the incubator

2013-11-29 Thread Sandy Walsh
So, as I mention in the branch, what about deployments that haven't transitioned to the library but would like to cherry pick this feature? after it starts moving into a library can leave a very big gap when the functionality isn't available to users. -S

Re: [openstack-dev] [oslo] maintenance policy for code graduating from the incubator

2013-11-30 Thread Sandy Walsh
On 11/29/2013 03:58 PM, Doug Hellmann wrote: On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Sandy Walsh sandy.wa...@rackspace.com mailto:sandy.wa...@rackspace.com wrote: So, as I mention in the branch, what about deployments that haven't transitioned to the library but would like to cherry

Re: [openstack-dev] [oslo] maintenance policy for code graduating from the incubator

2013-12-02 Thread Sandy Walsh
On 12/01/2013 06:40 PM, Doug Hellmann wrote: On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Sandy Walsh sandy.wa...@rackspace.com mailto:sandy.wa...@rackspace.com wrote: On 11/29/2013 03:58 PM, Doug Hellmann wrote: On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Sandy Walsh

Re: [openstack-dev] Unified Guest Agent proposal

2013-12-06 Thread Sandy Walsh
On 12/06/2013 03:45 PM, Dmitry Mescheryakov wrote: Hello all, We would like to push further the discussion on unified guest agent. You may find the details of our proposal at [1]. Also let me clarify why we started this conversation. Savanna currently utilizes SSH to install/configure

Re: [openstack-dev] [taskflow] Recommendations for the granularity of tasks and their stickiness to workers

2014-06-17 Thread Sandy Walsh
On 6/17/2014 7:04 AM, Eoghan Glynn wrote: Folks, A question for the taskflow ninjas. Any thoughts on best practice WRT $subject? Specifically I have in mind this ceilometer review[1] which adopts the approach of using very fine-grained tasks (at the level of an individual alarm

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Why is there a 'None' task_state between 'SCHEDULING' 'BLOCK_DEVICE_MAPPING'?

2014-06-26 Thread Sandy Walsh
Nice ... that's always bugged me. From: wu jiang [win...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2014 9:30 AM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Why is there a 'None' task_state between 'SCHEDULING'

Re: [openstack-dev] [oslo][messaging] Further improvements and refactoring

2014-06-27 Thread Sandy Walsh
Something to consider is the create the queue in advance feature is done for notifications, so we don't drop important messages on the floor by having an Exchange with no associated Queue. For RPC operations, this may not be required (we assume the service is available). If this check is truly

Re: [openstack-dev] [oslo][messaging] Further improvements and refactoring

2014-06-27 Thread Sandy Walsh
should be able to disable it for RPC in oslo.messaging. (I say should because I'm not positive some aspect of openstack doesn't depend on the queue existing. Thinking about the scheduler mostly) -S On 06/27/2014 05:16 PM, Sandy Walsh wrote: Something to consider is the create the queue in advance

Re: [openstack-dev] [oslo] Openstack and SQLAlchemy

2014-06-30 Thread Sandy Walsh
woot! From: Mike Bayer [mba...@redhat.com] Sent: Monday, June 30, 2014 1:56 PM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Subject: [openstack-dev] [oslo] Openstack and SQLAlchemy Hi all - For those who don't know me, I'm Mike

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Treating notifications as a contract

2014-07-10 Thread Sandy Walsh
On 7/10/2014 5:52 AM, Eoghan Glynn wrote: TL;DR: do we need to stabilize notifications behind a versioned and discoverable contract? Thanks for dusting this off. Versioning and published schemas for notifications are important to the StackTach team. It would be nice to get this

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Treating notifications as a contract

2014-07-10 Thread Sandy Walsh
On 7/10/2014 2:59 PM, Daniel Dyer wrote: From my perspective, the requirement is to be able to have a consistent and predictable format for notifications that are being sent from all services. This means: 1. a set of required fields that all events contain and have consistent meaning 2. a

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Treating notifications as a contract

2014-07-11 Thread Sandy Walsh
On 7/10/2014 12:10 PM, Chris Dent wrote: On Thu, 10 Jul 2014, Julien Danjou wrote: My initial plan was to leverage a library like voluptuous to do schema based validation on the sender side. That would allow for receiver to introspect schema and know the data structure to expect. I didn't

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Treating notifications as a contract

2014-07-15 Thread Sandy Walsh
On 7/15/2014 3:51 AM, Mark McLoughlin wrote: On Fri, 2014-07-11 at 10:04 +0100, Chris Dent wrote: On Fri, 11 Jul 2014, Lucas Alvares Gomes wrote: The data format that Ironic will send was part of the spec proposed and could have been reviewed. I think there's still time to change it tho, if

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Treating notifications as a contract

2014-07-16 Thread Sandy Walsh
On 7/11/2014 6:08 AM, Chris Dent wrote: On Fri, 11 Jul 2014, Lucas Alvares Gomes wrote: The data format that Ironic will send was part of the spec proposed and could have been reviewed. I think there's still time to change it tho, if you have a better format talk to Haomeng which is the guys

Re: [openstack-dev] [Ceilometer] Generate Event or Notification in Ceilometer

2014-07-30 Thread Sandy Walsh
If all you want to do is publish a notification you can use oslo.messaging directly. Or, for something lighter weight, we have Notabene, which is a small wrapper on Kombu. An example of how our notification simulator/generator uses it is available here:

Re: [openstack-dev] Payload within RabbitMQ messages for Nova related exchanges

2014-04-15 Thread Sandy Walsh
On 04/15/2014 10:07 AM, George Monday wrote: Hey there, I've got a quick question about the RabbitMQ exchanges. We are writing listeners for the RabbitMQ exchanges. The basic information about the tasks like compute.instance.create.[start|stop] etc. as stored in the 'payload' attribute

Re: [openstack-dev] How to re-compile Devstack Code

2014-04-24 Thread Sandy Walsh
Also, I find setting this in my localrc/local.conf helps debugging: # get an actual log file vs. screen scrollback LOGFILE=/opt/stack/logs/stack.sh.log # gimme all the info VERBOSE=True # don't pull from git every time I run stack.sh RECLONE=False # make the logs readable LOG_COLOR=False

Re: [openstack-dev] Monitoring as a Service

2014-05-06 Thread Sandy Walsh
On 5/6/2014 10:04 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote: John Dickinson wrote: One of the advantages of the program concept within OpenStack is that separate code projects with complementary goals can be managed under the same program without needing to be the same codebase. The most obvious example

Re: [openstack-dev] Monitoring as a Service

2014-05-06 Thread Sandy Walsh
On 5/6/2014 1:48 PM, Thierry Carrez wrote: Sandy Walsh wrote: I'd be curious to know more what managed means in this situation? Is the core project expected to allocate time in the IRC meeting to the concerns of these adjacent projects? What if the core project doesn't agree

Re: [openstack-dev] Treating notifications as a contract

2014-10-07 Thread Sandy Walsh
From: Chris Dent [chd...@redhat.com] Tuesday, October 07, 2014 12:07 PM On Wed, 3 Sep 2014, Sandy Walsh wrote: Good goals. When Producer and Consumer know what to expect, things are good ... I know to find the Instance ID here. When the consumer wants to deal with a notification as a generic

Re: [openstack-dev] Treating notifications as a contract

2014-10-07 Thread Sandy Walsh
From: Sandy Walsh [sandy.wa...@rackspace.com] Tuesday, October 07, 2014 6:07 PM Haven't had any time to get anything written down (pressing deadlines with StackTach.v3) but open to suggestions. Perhaps we should just add something to the olso.messaging etherpad to find time at the summit

Re: [openstack-dev] Treating notifications as a contract

2014-10-14 Thread Sandy Walsh
From: Doug Hellmann [d...@doughellmann.com] Tuesday, October 14, 2014 7:19 PM It might be more appropriate to put it on the cross-project session list: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/kilo-crossproject-summit-topics Done ... thanks! ___

Re: [openstack-dev] [oslo] request_id deprecation strategy question

2014-10-20 Thread Sandy Walsh
Does this mean we're losing request-id's? Will they still appear in the Context objects? And there was the effort to keep consistent request-id's in cross-service requests, will this deprecation affect that? -S From: Steven Hardy [sha...@redhat.com]

Re: [openstack-dev] [oslo] request_id deprecation strategy question

2014-10-20 Thread Sandy Walsh
20, 2014 at 02:17:54PM +, Sandy Walsh wrote: Does this mean we're losing request-id's? No, it just means the implementation has moved from oslo-incubator[1] to oslo.middleware[2]. The issue I'm highlighting is that those projects using the code now have to update their api-paste.ini files

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] How can we get more feedback from users?

2014-10-24 Thread Sandy Walsh
Nice work Angus ... great idea. Would love to see more of this. -S From: Angus Salkeld [asalk...@mirantis.com] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2014 1:32 AM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Subject: [openstack-dev] [all] How can we get

[openstack-dev] StackTach users?

2014-10-24 Thread Sandy Walsh
Hey y'all! I'm taking a page from Angus and trying to pull together a list of StackTach users. We're moving quickly on our V3 implementation and I'd like to ensure we're addressing the problems you've faced/are facing with older versions. For example, I know initial setup has been a concern

Re: [openstack-dev] [Ceilometer] Notifications as a contract summit prep

2014-10-24 Thread Sandy Walsh
Thanks ... we'll be sure to address your concerns. And there's the list we've compiled here: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/kilo-crossproject-summit-topics (section 4) -S From: Chris Dent [chd...@redhat.com] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2014 2:45 PM To:

[openstack-dev] Summit Recap: Notification Schema

2014-11-18 Thread Sandy Walsh
https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/kilo-crossproject-notifications The big takeaways: 1. We want the schema to be external so other languages can utilize them. 2. JSON-Schema seems fine, but AVRO has traction in the Big Data world and should be considered. 3. The challenge of have text-file based

[openstack-dev] Where should Schema files live?

2014-11-20 Thread Sandy Walsh
Hey y'all, To avoid cross-posting, please inform your -infra / -operations buddies about this post. We've just started thinking about where notification schema files should live and how they should be deployed. Kind of a tricky problem. We could really use your input on this problem ...

Re: [openstack-dev] Where should Schema files live?

2014-11-20 Thread Sandy Walsh
From: Doug Hellmann [d...@doughellmann.com] Thursday, November 20, 2014 3:51 PM On Nov 20, 2014, at 8:12 AM, Sandy Walsh sandy.wa...@rackspace.com wrote: Hey y'all, To avoid cross-posting, please inform your -infra / -operations buddies about this post. We've just started

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