OpenStack Lessons from OpenStack Telemetry: Deflation This post is the second and final episode of Lessons from OpenStack Telemetry. If you have missed the first post, you can read it here. Splitting At some point, the rules relaxed on
OpenStack Lessons from OpenStack Telemetry: Incubation It was mostly around that time in 2012 that I and a couple of fellow open-source enthusiasts started working on Ceilometer, the first piece of software from the OpenStack Telemetry project. Six years
OpenStack Attending OpenStack Summit Ocata For the last time in 2016, I flew out to the OpenStack Summit in Barcelona, where I had the chance to meet (again) a lot of my fellow OpenStack contributors there. How To
Python From decimal to timestamp with MySQL When working with timestamps, one question that often arises is the precision of those timestamps. Most software is good enough with a precision up to the second, and that's easy. But in some
OpenStack A retrospective of the OpenStack Telemetry project Newton cycle A few weeks ago, I recorded an interview with Krishnan Raghuram about what was discussed for this development cycle for OpenStack Telemetry at the Austin summit. It's interesting to look back at this
OpenStack OpenStack Summit Newton from a Telemetry point of view It's again that time of the year, where we all fly out to a different country to chat about OpenStack and what we'll do during the next 6 months. This time, it was
OpenStack OpenStack Summit Mitaka from a Telemetry point of view Last week I was in Tokyo, Japan for the OpenStack Summit, discussing the new Mitaka version that will be released in 6 months. I've attended the summit mainly to discuss and follow-up new
Gnocchi Benchmarking Gnocchi for fun & profit We got pretty good feedback on Gnocchi so far, even if we only had little. Recently, in order to have a better feeling of where we were at, we wanted to know how
Talks Gnocchi talk at OpenStack Paris Meetup #16 Last week, I've been invited to the OpenStack Paris meetup #16, whose subject was about metrics in OpenStack. Last time I spoke at this meetup was back in 2012, during the OpenStack Paris
OpenStack Ceilometer, Gnocchi & Aodh: Liberty progress It's been a while since I talked about Ceilometer and its companions, so I thought I'd go ahead and write a bit about what's going on this side of OpenStack. I'm not going
OpenStack OpenStack Summit Liberty from a Ceilometer & Gnocchi point of view Last week I was in Vancouver, BC for the OpenStack Summit, discussing the new Liberty version that will be released in 6 months. I've attended the summit mainly to discuss and follow-up new
Gnocchi Gnocchi 1.0: storing metrics and resources at scale A few months ago, I wrote a long post about what I called back then the "Gnocchi experiment". Time passed and we – me and the rest of the Gnocchi team – continued
OpenStack OpenStack Ceilometer and the Gnocchi experiment A little more than 2 years ago, the Ceilometer project was launched inside the OpenStack ecosystem. Its main objective was to measure OpenStack cloud platforms in order to provide data and mechanisms for
OpenStack OpenStack Design Summit Juno, from a Ceilometer point of view Last week was the OpenStack Design Summit in Atlanta, GA where we, developers, discussed and designed the new OpenStack release (Juno) coming up. I've been there mainly to discuss Ceilometer upcoming developments. The
OpenStack OpenStack Ceilometer Icehouse-2 milestone released Yesterday, the second milestone of the Icehouse development branch of Ceilometer has been released and is now available for testing and download. This means the first half of the OpenStack Icehouse development has
Python Databases integration testing strategies with Python The Ceilometer project supports various database backend that can be used as storage. Among them are MongoDB, SQLite MySQL, PostgreSQL, HBase, DB2… All Ceilometer's code is unit tested, but when dealing with external
OpenStack OpenStack Design Summit Icehouse, from a Ceilometer point of view Last week was the OpenStack Design Summit Icehouse in Hong-Kong where we, OpenStack developers, discussed and designed the new OpenStack release (Icehouse) that is coming up. The week has been wonderful. It was
OpenStack OpenStack Ceilometer Havana-3 milestone released Last week, the third and last milestone of the Havana development branch of Ceilometer has been released and is now available for testing and download. This means the end of the OpenStack Havana
OpenStack OpenStack Ceilometer Havana-2 milestone released Last week, the second milestone of the Havana development branch of Ceilometer has been released and is now available for testing and download. This means the first half of the OpenStack Havana development
OpenStack OpenStack Ceilometer Havana-1 milestone released Yesterday, the first milestone of the Havana development branch of Ceilometer has been released and is now available for testing and download. This means the first quarter of the OpenStack Havana development has
OpenStack OpenStack Design Summit Havana, from a Ceilometer point of view Last week was the OpenStack Design Summit in Portland, OR where we, developers, discussed and designed the new OpenStack release (Havana) coming up. The summit has been wonderful. It was my first OpenStack
OpenStack Ceilometer bug squash day #2 The Ceilometer team is pleased to announce that tomorrow Tuesday 5th March 2013 will be the second bug squash day for Ceilometer. We wrote an extensive page about how you can contribute to
OpenStack OpenStack Ceilometer and Heat projects graduated The OpenStack Technical Committee has voted these last weeks about graduation of Heat and Ceilometer, to change their status from incubation to integrated. The details of the discussion can be found in the
OpenStack Ceilometer bug squash day #1 In order to start the year in a good mood, what's the best than squashing some bugs on OpenStack? Therefore, the Ceilometer team is pleased to announce that it organizes a bug squashing
OpenStack OpenStack France meetup #2 I was at the OpenStack France meetup 2 yesterday evening. This has been a wonderful evening, talking about OpenStack and all with around 30-40 people. I and Nick Barcet presented Ceilometer and have