On 27/01/14 23:41, Julien Danjou wrote:
On Mon, Jan 27 2014, Adrian Turjak wrote:
I created a gauge metric that is updated via notifications, and a pollster.
The data from both of those needs to be transformed in to a cumulative
metric. The transformer object works as intended, but the issue is that
while my pollster/notifications combo does create samples for the same named
metric, two different transformer objects are being created for each data
input for the metric.
If I understand correctly what you're trying to do, it won't work
unfortunately. Transformers are run _before_ publishing to a collector,
and are local to a pipeline inside a Ceilometer deamon. The deamons
handling the pollsters and the notifications are two different programs,
and therefore don't communicate.
Is there a way around this or some other approach because unless I can
get both sets of data the final calculations are not useful. Unless I
can somehow force a notification on an interval... but that is likely
impossible, or requires work in Nova.
What I've made is a gauge metric that represents the state of a VM at a
given time so that I can then do accurate uptime calculations taking
into account suspended states and shutdowns. The state metric I've made
is in a blueprint here (and there is a link to my code):
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ceilometer/+spec/state-meter
Since I need consistent state data as well as accurate transitional data
it needs to be both notification and pollster. What my transformer then
does is build a cumulative value of uptime based on the state
information, and allows a user to define what states they care about for
billing via the pipeline parameters.
Is there a way to transform data once it reaches the collector? Or would
an approach be to build a separate agent to transform this, and likely
other data, into usable billing data to post to the collector?
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