Revision as of 18:07, 30 August 2012

State of Metering

Describe the state and direction of the project.

Project Goals
- metering, not monitoring
- pluggable behaviors
- meter sources
- meter interpretations
- storage
- swap out unused parts
- reusable messaging
- etc.
Architecture
- based on Nick’s diagram https://docs.google.com/drawings/pub?id=1_cIFir6HS6jSkPw7chrmyu8DGE2ZgXk79Kbj8nw-Hqo&w=733&h=595
- discuss use of plugins
- cover components
  - agents
  - collector
  - listeners
  - db engine plugins
API basics
- examples of supported queries
- find updated resources
- duration & volume calculations
- raw events
Implemented Meters
- instance hours (including flavor variation)
- CPU time
- disk I/O
- RAM allocation
- VCPU allocation
- root disk size
- ephemeral disk size
- floating IP allocation
Grizzly Work To Be Done
- complete notification integration with other projects
- emit more notifications
- emit meter messages directly instead of converting notifications
- more meters
  - volume
  - network bandwidth
  - replace RPC-based meter messages with simpler notifications
  - easier for non-OpenStack code to send meter messages
integrate with Horizon for users to see their data
Getting the Code
- install via devstack
- installation instructions online at http://ceilometer.readthedocs.org/
- source in github at https://github.com/stackforge/ceilometer
Questions

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 *** replace RPC-based meter messages with simpler notifications
 *** easier for non-[[OpenStack]] code to send meter messages
+* integrate with Horizon for users to see their data
 * Getting the Code
 ** install via devstack