By default, Ceilometer consumes notifications on the messaging bus sent to topics by using a queue/pool name that is identical to the topic name. You shouldn’t have different applications consuming messages from this queue. If you want to also consume the topic notifications with a system other than Ceilometer, you should configure a separate queue that listens for the same messages.
Ceilometer allows multiple topics to be configured so that the polling agent can send the same messages of notifications to other queues. Notification agents also use topics to configure which queue to listen for. If you use multiple topics, you should configure notification agent and polling agent separately, otherwise Ceilometer collects duplicate samples.
By default, the ceilometer.conf file is as follows:
[oslo_messaging_notifications]
topics = notifications
To use multiple topics, you should give ceilometer-agent-notification and ceilometer-polling services different ceilometer.conf files. The Ceilometer configuration file ceilometer.conf is normally locate in the /etc/ceilometer directory. Make changes according to your requirements which may look like the following:
For notification agent using ceilometer-notification.conf, settings like:
[oslo_messaging_notifications]
topics = notifications,xxx
For polling agent using ceilometer-polling.conf, settings like:
[oslo_messaging_notifications]
topics = notifications,foo
Note
notification_topics in ceilometer-notification.conf should only have one same topic in ceilometer-polling.conf
Doing this, it’s easy to listen/receive data from multiple internal and external services.
Ceilometer allows multiple publishers to be configured in pipeline so that
data can be easily sent to multiple internal and external systems. Ceilometer
allows to set two types of pipelines. One is pipeline.yaml
which is for
meters, another is event_pipeline.yaml
which is for events.
By default, Ceilometer only saves event and meter data into Gnocchi. If you want Ceilometer to send data to other systems, instead of or in addition to the default storage services, multiple publishers can be enabled by modifying the Ceilometer pipeline.
Ceilometer ships multiple publishers currently. They are database
,
notifier
, file
, http
and gnocchi
publishers.
To configure one or multiple publishers for Ceilometer, find the Ceilometer
configuration file pipeline.yaml
and/or event_pipeline.yaml
which is
normally located at /etc/ceilometer directory and make changes accordingly.
Your configuration file can be in a different directory.
To use multiple publishers, add multiple publisher lines in pipeline.yaml
and/or
event_pipeline.yaml
file like the following:
---
sources:
- name: source_name
events:
- "*"
sinks:
- sink_name
sinks:
- name: sink_name
transformers:
publishers:
- database://
- gnocchi://
- file://
For the Gnocchi publisher, the following configuration settings should be added into /etc/ceilometer/ceilometer.conf:
[dispatcher_gnocchi]
archive_policy = low
The value specified for archive_policy
should correspond to the name of an
archive_policy
configured within Gnocchi.
For the Gnocchi publisher backed by Swift storage, the following additional configuration settings should be added:
[dispatcher_gnocchi]
filter_project = gnocchi_swift
filter_service_activity = True
The paths of all pipeline files including pipeline.yaml
and event_pipeline.yaml
are located to ceilometer/pipeline/data by default. And it’s possible to set the
path through pipeline_cfg_file
being assigned to another one in ceilometer.conf
.
Ceilometer allow users to customize pipeline files. Before that, copy the following yaml files:
$ cp ceilometer/pipeline/data/*.yaml /etc/ceilometer
Then you can add configurations according to the former section.
shuffle_time_before_polling_task
in ceilometer.conf. Enable this by setting an integer greater than zero to
shuffle polling time for agents. This will add some random jitter to the time
of sending requests to Nova or other components to avoid large number of
requests in a short time period.batch_polled_samples
to False
in
ceilometer.conf
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