EfficientMetering/GrizzlySummit/BeyondMetering

Beyond Metering - Extending Ceilometer

Over the past few months, numerous request have been made to the Ceilometer project to extend its scope from just metering to more monitoring or alerting. This causes quite a few challenges but as we are instrumenting more and more openstack component to extract data from them, it makes sense to think on how we could extend our capabilities over time.

• CloudWatch type functionality
  • what granularity of data is needed
  • should we collect data the same way
  • should we store collected data in our database
  • what other components would be needed
• Alerting type functionality
  • what granularity of data is needed
  • should we collect data the same way
  • should we store collected data in our database
  • what other components would be needed
• Other types?