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Re: [Ceilometer] Experience sharing

 

Ceilometer already is disabled by default, although it doesn't have
it's own option in the wizard, you have to go to Settings tab to
enable it (screenshot attached).

-Dmitry

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 2:57 PM, David Easter <deaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> +1
>
> I had already expected that it would be an option in our Wizard, so I'm in
> full support of implementing it as an option.
>
> Thanks,
>
> - David J. Easter
>   Product Line Manager,  Mirantis OpenStack
>
> From: Roman Alekseenkov <ralekseenkov@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thursday, December 12, 2013 2:46 PM
> To: Nadya Privalova <nprivalova@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "fuel-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <fuel-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Roman
> Sokolkov <rsokolkov@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Fuel-dev] [Ceilometer] Experience sharing
>
> Team,
>
> Thank you. The last question that I have -- shall we consider adding an
> option into Fuel UI to enable/disable Ceilometer deployment? If the things
> get unstable with Ceilometer, customers would want to have an ability to
> turn it off.
>
> Thanks,
> Roman
>
> On Thursday, December 12, 2013, Nadya Privalova wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Actually we have a mechanism for cleaning up the data, but I didn't test
>> it. There is time-to-live parameter. It's implemented in MySQL and MongoDB
>> backends.
>> I'm not sure about MongoDB perf testing but I know that Sandy Walsh and
>> his Rackspace team have plans about performance testing all Ceilometer's DB
>> backends.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Nadya
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Roman Sokolkov <rsokolkov@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Sorry,
>>
>> link - how zabbix stores old data.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Roman Sokolkov <rsokolkov@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Bogdan,
>>
>> Thanks for your comment. Please see my thoughts:
>>
>> this driver not merged yet.
>> this a prototype of driver for young technology.
>> Ceilometer developers prefer MongoDB.
>>
>> So i don't think we should research something regarding ElasticSearch
>> right now. I suggest to focus on MongoDB.
>>
>> Thanks, Roman S.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Bogdan Dobrelya <bdobrelia@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>> On 12/12/2013 08:51 AM, Roman Alekseenkov wrote:
>>
>> Nadya,
>>
>> Thanks a lot for sharing the results.
>>
>> Roman S.,
>>
>> What is your perspective on the things described below? I'm worried about
>> Ceilometer + MySQL support in Fuel 4.0. As you can see, the DB fell apart in
>> a matter of one day. We can't really afford similar behavior in customer's
>> environments. So, I'm interested in the following:
>>
>> Given that Ceilometer generates so much data, will MongoDB really help to
>> handle it better or it's a matter of time until it breaks like MySQL?
>> Is there a cleanup mechanism in Ceilometer to clear historical data? We
>> don't want the database to grow indefinitely.
>> Are we pointing Ceilometer to the same Galera instance as we use for
>> OpenStack, or we deploy a different MySQL for it in Fuel?
>>
>> I'd like to add here: 4) Would it make the sense to use ElasticSearch
>> backend driver prototype for ceilometer
>> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ceilometer/+spec/elasticsearch-driver?
>> Here is some more considerations about ES as NoSQL usage:
>> https://www.found.no/foundation/elasticsearch-as-nosql/
>> I believe, this is a good point for deeper research.
>>
>> What are our recommended/default settings in Fuel for Ceilometer? It is
>> stats collection every 5 seconds, or something different? How safe are our
>> defaults?
>> Do we allow user to tweak essential Ceilometer settings through Fuel UI or
>> manually?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Roman
>>
>> On Tuesday, December 10, 2013, Nadya Privalova wrote:
>>
>> Hi colleagues,
>>
>> The purpose of this letter is to describe my Ceilometer tests and just
>> experience in it's deployment.
>>
>> First of all let me describe what I wanted to achieve. There were a lot of
>> discussions on summit about Ceilometer's collector performance: community
>> was not sure that it
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Dmitry Borodaenko

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