On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 5:34 AM, Eoghan Glynn <[email protected]> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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