=== Key New Features === * Creation of Aodh to handle alarming service. * Metadata caching - reduced load of nova API polling. * Declarative meters ** Ability to generate meters by defining meter definition template. ** Ability to define specific SNMP meters to poll. * Support for data publishing from Ceilometer to Gnocchi. * Mandatory limit - limit restricted querying is enforced. The limit must be explicitly provided on queries, otherwise the result set is restricted to a default limit. * Distributed, coordinated notification agents - support for workload partitioning across multiple notification agents. * Events RBAC support. * PowerVM hypervisor support. * Improved MongoDB query support - performance improvement to statistic calculations. * Additional meter support: ** Magnum meters ** DBaaS meters ** DNSaaS meters