Eoghan Glynn, Ceilometer Project PTL, outlines the changes made in the Icehouse release as well as upcoming updates for Juno. Learn more about Ceilometer here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Ceilometer

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Eoghan Glynn
Telemetry Program Update
OpenStack Telemetry
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2. To reliably collect measurements of the utilization of
physical & virtual resources comprising deployed clouds,
persist these data for subsequent retrieval & analysis,
and trigger actions when defined criteria are met.
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Our Mission ...

3. The current state of play ...
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4. Technical Committee Gap Analysis Coverage
● Viable sqlalchemy driver in the CI gate and for
small deployments / PoCs
● Extend Tempest integration test coverage based
on sqlalchemy and mongoDB drivers
● Enhance user- and operator-oriented
documentation for ceilometer
● Participate in the Grenade upgrade testing
harness
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5. What’s coming up in Juno?
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6. Two parallel efforts ...
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7. Time Series Data as a Service
● Re-imagining ceilometer metering store shorn of
snapshot’d resource metadata
● Prototype implementation in the gnocchi project
on stackforge
● Canonical analytics and storage engine provided
via pandas and swift
● Alternative storage drivers based on metrics-
oriented DBs such as InfluxDB
● Will form the basis of a ceilometer v3 API
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8. Incremental improvements
● Declarative metering via SNMP
○ mapping metric OIDs to meter names via configuration
● Events storage in HBase and MongoDB
○ support reconstructing the resource state timeline
● Elimination of the central agent SPoF
○ use the taskflow library for workload partitioning
● Consume IPMI sensor data from Ironic
○ ironic owns the credentials & polling cadence
● Meter networking services
○ LBaaS, FWaaS, VPNaaS provided by neutron
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