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[Doug Hellmann <doug.hellmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 5:34 AM, Eoghan Glynn <eglynn@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>
> > I am testing ceilometer in my devstack virtual machine. Although I
> > can see the meter data model in the mongodb, I am confused about
> > some glossary when I test its Web API. I am not very clear about the
> > " resource" in the " GET /v1/resources",either "source" in the "GET
> > /v1/sources/(source)/meters/(meter)".
> > Can someone explain these two concept? Thanks a lot.
>
> Hi Yawei,
>
> Good question!
>
> My understanding is that the resources collection refers to the set
> of UUIDs identifying the openstack entities (e.g. instance, volume,
> image ... etc.) being metered, whereas the source refers to the
> origin of the metering data and is effectively unused right now
> as there is only a single source currently (though we could in the
> future for example distinguish between metric and metering data
> in this way).
>

That's exactly right. I'll open a ticket to add a glossary to the
documentation.

Doug


>
> Cheers,
> Eoghan
>
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