> -----Original Message----- > From: Julien Danjou [mailto:jul...@danjou.info] > Sent: 25 March 2015 08:55 > To: Tim Bell > Cc: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Ceilometer] Meters vs. Metrics > > On Tue, Mar 24 2015, Tim Bell wrote: > > > Can we keep it consistent ? The APIs have meter in them, so do the > > CLIs so we should really stick to that convention. > > It should be consistent already, as picked terms years ago. > Meters represents a set of samples with the same meter_name. > > There's no metrics in Ceilometer. >
Unfortunately, this is a cause of confusion for the users. Do you have a reference to the differences in the concepts ? The ceilometer doc does also have this confusion in some places, for example, http://docs.openstack.org/developer/ceilometer/measurements.html mixes the terms. Existing meters ------------------- For the list of existing metrics see the tables under the Measurements page of Ceilometer in the Cloud Administrator Guide. Tim > > If Gnocchi is using metrics, I feel it should change to use meters or > > a V3 API proposed that changes it all. > > Gnocchi is using metrics to differ from Ceilometer's meters because they are > not > the same "concept". > > -- > Julien Danjou > // Free Software hacker > // http://julien.danjou.info __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
