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[Jeffrey Budzinski <jeffreyb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Agreed on the point about not getting bogged down. I think Sandy is on the same page too from our last exchange (but he can correct me if not).

Tim here is working on some code for us to review. I'll ask him to put it in a repo we can all access.

On Nov 2, 2012, at 5:58 PM, Angus Salkeld wrote:

> On 01/11/12 13:58 -0700, Jeffrey Budzinski wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks for putting that together Sandy. Very nice!
>> 
>> From my perspective, there are two major things that are undesirable for us:
>> 
>> 1) Putting this data through the queue is not something that feels right. We'd like to have to option to use other types of data "sinks" from the generation points. Some folks might want to use the queues, but we do not wish to burden the queueing system with this volume of data. In some cases, we will just drop these into log files for later collection and aggregation.
>> 2) We would like a common mechanism for instrumenting but we would like to be able to route data to any number of places: local file, datagram endpoint, etc.
>> 
>> Now, getting the lower level measurement library consistent is definitely the right approach. I still think we need to support decorators in addition to monkey patching. And, we should make the gauges or whatever we call them usable with different "sinks".
> 
> Hi
> 
> I Agree with what you said above, but lets not get bogged down
> with monkey patching/modifing the code as I think this is
> more a question for each ptl. Lets just make it possible to do
> both.
> 
> btw: Has anyone started work on this? Is there a repo setup yet?
> 
> -A
> 
>> 
>> On Nov 1, 2012, at 1:17 PM, Sandy Walsh wrote:
>> 
>>> Hey!
>>> 
>>> Here's a first pass at a proposal for unifying StackTach/Ceilometer and other instrumentation/metering/monitoring efforts.
>>> 
>>> It's v1, so bend, spindle, mutilate as needed ... but send feedback!
>>> 
>>> http://wiki.openstack.org/UnifiedInstrumentationMetering
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Sandy
>>> 
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