Re: [Openstack-operators] [Ceilometer] Real world experience with Ceilometer deployments - Feedback requested

2015-03-10 Thread gordon chung
hi, just to follow-up, thanks for the input, the usability of ceilometer is obviously a concern of ours and something the team tries to address with the resources we have. as a quick help/update, here are some points of interests that i think might help:- if using Juno+, DO use the notifier:// p

Re: [Openstack-operators] [Ceilometer] Real world experience with Ceilometer deployments - Feedback requested

2015-02-16 Thread Sanjay Mishra
6, 2015 4:47 PM To: Chris Dent Cc: openstack-operators Subject: Re: [Openstack-operators] [Ceilometer] Real world experience with Ceilometer deployments - Feedback requested You bring up a very good point. What are the parts that are uniquely useful? Here are two key reasons why we cho

Re: [Openstack-operators] [Ceilometer] Real world experience with Ceilometer deployments - Feedback requested

2015-02-16 Thread Allamaraju, Subbu
You bring up a very good point. What are the parts that are uniquely useful? Here are two key reasons why we chose to bite the bullet and operationalize Ceilometer at work: 1. Stable set of APIs for tenants to access and publish metrics and alarms 2. An unobtrusive way for providers to collect

Re: [Openstack-operators] [Ceilometer] Real world experience with Ceilometer deployments - Feedback requested

2015-02-16 Thread Chris Dent
On Thu, 12 Feb 2015, Clint Byrum wrote: I wonder how hard it would be to push Ceilometer down the road of being an OpenStack shim for collectd instead of a full implementation. This would make the problem above go away, as collectd is written in C and is well known to be highly optimized for exa

Re: [Openstack-operators] [Ceilometer] Real world experience with Ceilometer deployments - Feedback requested

2015-02-16 Thread Chris Dent
On Thu, 12 Feb 2015, George Shuklin wrote: 1. Collector leaks memory. We ran it on same host with mongo, and it grab 29Gb out of 32, leaving mongo with less than gig memory available. Is this icehouse, juno or kilo? I ask because a) things have changed a lot in the past several months (and con

Re: [Openstack-operators] [Ceilometer] Real world experience with Ceilometer deployments - Feedback requested

2015-02-12 Thread Andy Hill
> We use StackTach only as a troubleshooting tool. If a user is having an > issue, we'll bring up their event history and review their timeline. I think > this alone makes it an invaluable tool. +1 for StackTach as an invaluable troubleshooting tool. It's probably worth calling out stacky CLI too

Re: [Openstack-operators] [Ceilometer] Real world experience with Ceilometer deployments - Feedback requested

2015-02-12 Thread Sandy Walsh
tigen/blob/master/bin/event_consumer.py From: Clint Byrum [cl...@fewbar.com] Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 2:28 PM To: openstack-operators Subject: Re: [Openstack-operators] [Ceilometer] Real world experience with Ceilometer deployments - Feedback

Re: [Openstack-operators] [Ceilometer] Real world experience with Ceilometer deployments - Feedback requested

2015-02-12 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from George Shuklin's message of 2015-02-11 17:59:02 -0800: > Ceilometer is in sad state. > > 1. Collector leaks memory. We ran it on same host with mongo, and it > grab 29Gb out of 32, leaving mongo with less than gig memory available. I wonder how hard it would be to push Ceilometer d

Re: [Openstack-operators] [Ceilometer] Real world experience with Ceilometer deployments - Feedback requested

2015-02-12 Thread Kris G. Lindgren
.openstack.org>>, "openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org>" mailto:openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org>> Subject: Re: [Openstack-operators] [Ceilometer] Real world experience with Ceilometer deployments - Feedback re

Re: [Openstack-operators] [Ceilometer] Real world experience with Ceilometer deployments - Feedback requested

2015-02-12 Thread Diego Parrilla Santamaría
Hi Mash, we dropped Ceilometer as the core tool to gather metrics for our rating and billing system. I must admit it has improved, but I think it's broken by design: a metering and monitoring system is not the same thing. We have built a component that directly listens from rabbit notification to

Re: [Openstack-operators] [Ceilometer] Real world experience with Ceilometer deployments - Feedback requested

2015-02-12 Thread Joe Topjian
Hi Tim, Does anyone have any proposals regarding > > > - Possible replacements for Ceilometer that you have used instead > > It seems that many sites have written their own systems. > Sorry - I should have appended this at the end of my last post. I need to preface this with "I have never used C

Re: [Openstack-operators] [Ceilometer] Real world experience with Ceilometer deployments - Feedback requested

2015-02-12 Thread Joe Topjian
Hi Sandy, That said, I'd love to hear about headaches and failures of the older > StackTach release and how people are using it, or hope to use it. > We have two StackTach v2 environments, one of which has been running for almost 3 years. For that particular environment, it can be a bear to do qu

Re: [Openstack-operators] [Ceilometer] Real world experience with Ceilometer deployments - Feedback requested

2015-02-12 Thread Sandy Walsh
btw> if you want to know how StackTach handles billing, here's the salient part from our Hong Kong presentation [1]. Back when we were attempting Ceilometer integration. [1] http://youtu.be/c8zZtSL0t00?t=8m26s ___ OpenStack-operators mailing list OpenS

Re: [Openstack-operators] [Ceilometer] Real world experience with Ceilometer deployments - Feedback requested

2015-02-12 Thread matt
t;> > >> > -Original Message- > >> > From: Daniele Venzano [mailto:daniele.venz...@eurecom.fr] > >> > Sent: 12 February 2015 12:24 > >> > To: openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org > >> > Subject: Re: [Openstack-operators] [Ceilomete

Re: [Openstack-operators] [Ceilometer] Real world experience with Ceilometer deployments - Feedback requested

2015-02-12 Thread Sandy Walsh
d. :) [1] https://github.com/stackforge?query=stacktach [2] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmyM48VxCGaW5pPdyFNWCuwVT1bCBV5p3 > >From: Tim Bell [tim.b...@cern.ch] >Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 11:47 AM >To: Daniele Venzano; openstack-operators@l

Re: [Openstack-operators] [Ceilometer] Real world experience with Ceilometer deployments - Feedback requested

2015-02-12 Thread Kris G. Lindgren
Original Message- >> > From: Daniele Venzano [mailto:daniele.venz...@eurecom.fr] >> > Sent: 12 February 2015 12:24 >> > To: openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org >> > Subject: Re: [Openstack-operators] [Ceilometer] Real world experience >>with &g

Re: [Openstack-operators] [Ceilometer] Real world experience with Ceilometer deployments - Feedback requested

2015-02-12 Thread Matt Joyce
om: Daniele Venzano [mailto:daniele.venz...@eurecom.fr] > > Sent: 12 February 2015 12:24 > > To: openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org > > Subject: Re: [Openstack-operators] [Ceilometer] Real world experience with > > Ceilometer deployments - Feedback requested > > &

Re: [Openstack-operators] [Ceilometer] Real world experience with Ceilometer deployments - Feedback requested

2015-02-12 Thread Tim Bell
; create > something between your billing system and the ceilometer API, because to the > best of my knowledge there is nothing that uses it. > > eBay has the resources to do all that. We don't. > > > > -Original Message----- > From: George Shuklin [mailto:ge

Re: [Openstack-operators] [Ceilometer] Real world experience with Ceilometer deployments - Feedback requested

2015-02-12 Thread Daniele Venzano
hursday 12 February 2015 02:59 To: openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org Subject: Re: [Openstack-operators] [Ceilometer] Real world experience with Ceilometer deployments - Feedback requested Ceilometer is in sad state. 1. Collector leaks memory. We ran it on same host with mongo, and it grab 29Gb

Re: [Openstack-operators] [Ceilometer] Real world experience with Ceilometer deployments - Feedback requested

2015-02-11 Thread Zeng, Bryant
@Maish Saidel-Keesing, Hi Maish, I’m from eBay Inc, and we’re enabling 1000+ ceilometer compute agents. Hope our experience could help. We choose an OpenTSDB backend instead of MongoDB in the first place, so we avoid of most of the issues related to MongoDB. However, during deployment, we stil

Re: [Openstack-operators] [Ceilometer] Real world experience with Ceilometer deployments - Feedback requested

2015-02-11 Thread George Shuklin
Ceilometer is in sad state. 1. Collector leaks memory. We ran it on same host with mongo, and it grab 29Gb out of 32, leaving mongo with less than gig memory available. 2. Metering agent cause huge load on neutron-server. o(n) of metering rules and tenants. Few bugs reported, one bugfix in revi

[Openstack-operators] [Ceilometer] Real world experience with Ceilometer deployments - Feedback requested

2015-02-11 Thread Maish Saidel-Keesing
Is Ceilometer ready for prime time? I would be interested in hearing from people who have deployed OpenStack clouds with Ceilometer, and their experience. Some of the topics I am looking for feedback on are: - Database Size - MongoDB management, Sharding, replica sets etc. - Replication strat