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Re: [Ceilometer] Experience sharing

 

Great, thank you for confirming!

Roman

On Thursday, December 12, 2013, Dmitry Borodaenko wrote:

> 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/>--
> Dmitry Borodaenko
>

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