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Re: [ceilometer] Hbase storage backend for Ceilometer - blueprint?
Thanks Julien, I will write up a blueprint soon.
Shengjie
-----Original Message-----
From: Julien Danjou [mailto:julien@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 07 November 2012 18:12
To: Min, Shengjie
Cc: openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Openstack] [ceilometer] Hbase storage backend for Ceilometer - blueprint?
On Wed, Nov 07 2012, Shengjie_Min@xxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi Shengjie,
> I am looking for a way to propose a blueprint to the ceilometer team -
> "Adding Hbase storage backend for ceilometer". Currently we have only
> MongoDB and SQLalchemy as the possible ceilometer storage backend.
> Given the storage interface is clearly designed and allows us to have
> different backend, it would be nice to have more options which make
> Ceilometer more adoptive to some providers' existing architectures. As
> a cloud IAAS provider, Ceilometer might not be just considered as a
> usage db, also it's being seen as a centralized place to store all the
> usage data cross platforms. Additionally, all the historical usage
> data stored can be used for historical usage analysis as well, this is
> where MapReduce comes into play. With Hadoop Hbase, it allows usage
> data to be stored in HDFS, also it gives us the ability to run large
> scale massive MapRed analysis jobs in the future.
This is indeed a good idea, and as you pointed out, Ceilometer collector has been designed so this is being possible.
I think you can create a blueprint here:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ceilometer
And write in what should be done.
--
Julien Danjou
;; Free Software hacker & freelance
;; http://julien.danjou.info
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