On 06/20/2012 07:26 PM, John Griffith wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Nick Barcet <nick.bar...@canonical.com> > wrote: >> Hello John (or anyone else working on cinder), >> >> As part of the ceilometer project¹, we're working on usage data >> retrieval from various OpenStack components. One of them is Cinder. >> We're targeting Folsom for the first release, therefore it seems >> important for both projects to be able to work together, this is why >> we're bringing ceilometer to your attention and asking for advices. :) >> >> What we want is to retrieve the maximum amount of data, so we can meter >> things, to bill them in the end. For now and for Cinder, this would >> first include (per user/tenant): >> - the amount of reserved volume space >> - the amount of used volume space >> - the number of volumes >> but we'll need probably more in a near future. >> >> Do you have any advice regarding integration of Ceilometer and Cinder >> together? What would be a stable interface we could rely on that would >> be independent of the backend? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Regards, >> >> ¹ http://launchpad.net/ceilometer >> -- >> Nick Barcet <nick.bar...@canonical.com> >> aka: nijaba, nicolas >> > > Hi Nick, > > We should chat about how things are shaping up so far and how you're > implementing things on the other sides (consistency where > practical/possible). Also, it sort of depends on the architecture and > use model details of Ceilometer, which I hate to admit but I'm not > really up to speed on. > > My first reaction/thought is the best most appropriate place to tie in > is via the python-cinderclient. There would be a number of ways to > obtain some of this info, whether deriving it or maybe some extensions > to obtain things directly.
Sounds great. We have our weekly meeting on Thurdays at 4PM UTC [1] which you would be welcome to join, or I can set up a bridge for us a phone chat. Let me know what you would prefer. [1] http://wiki.openstack.org/Meetings/MeteringAgenda Cheers, Nick
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