https://aalvrz.me/tags/panko/ Recent content in panko on Andrés Álvarez Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Tue, 11 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://aalvrz.me/posts/understanding-ceilometer-publishers/ Tue, 11 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://aalvrz.me/posts/understanding-ceilometer-publishers/ <p>Continuing with my study of the Ceilometer pipeline, this post now covers Ceilometer <strong>publishers</strong>. Publishers are components that make it possible to save the data into a persistent storage through the message bus, or to send it to one or more external consumers.</p> <p>Publishers are specified in the <code>publishers</code> section for each pipeline that is defined in the <code>pipeline.yaml</code> and the <code>event_pipeline.yaml</code> files.</p> <p>Many different publishers are available. The following are the most common and important publishers:</p> <h3 id="gnocchi">Gnocchi</h3> <p><img src="http://gnocchi.xyz/_images/gnocchi-logo.jpg" alt="Gnocchi Logo"></p> <p>Gnocchi is a multi-tenant timeseries, metrics and resources database. It provides an HTTP REST interface to create and manipulate the data. It is designed to store metrics at a very large scale while providing access to metrics and resources information and history.</p>