15:01:16 #startmeeting monasca 15:01:16 Meeting started Wed Mar 23 15:01:16 2016 UTC and is due to finish in 60 minutes. The chair is rhochmuth. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 15:01:18 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #help #info #idea #link #topic #startvote. 15:01:20 The meeting name has been set to 'monasca' 15:01:40 o/ 15:01:42 o/ 15:01:43 o/ 15:01:44 o/ 15:01:46 o/ 15:01:52 o/ 15:02:01 o/ 15:02:05 o/ 15:02:23 Meeting agenda is posted at, https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/monasca-team-meeting-agenda 15:02:31 Agenda for Wednesday March 23, 2016 (15:00 UTC) 15:02:31 1. Horizon updates for Grafana 2 15:02:31 https://review.openstack.org/#/c/295983/ 15:02:31 3. Periodic metrics 15:02:31 3.1 Initial state for sparse metrics? AlarmState.OK ? 15:02:32 3.2 Value for sparse (period < 0) metrics? Force 1.0 as value, or leave it to be specified elsewhere ? 15:02:32 3.2.1 Using aggregate functions when it comes to sparse metrics? 15:02:33 3.3 Should period be forced to -1 always ? 15:02:33 3.4 Should alarm transition to AlarmState.OK in next cycle in case there were no metrics collected, given that previously it was AlarmState.ALARM? => for sparse only 15:02:34 3.5 SubAlarm#getExpression#getPeriodĀ  - logic behind, could it be somehow reused or is it something different at all? 15:02:34 4, Mitaka release update and tagging 15:02:35 5. InfluxDB 10.X update 15:03:13 so, let's start with the grafana 2 update 15:03:18 #topic grafana 2 15:03:35 I don't have too much at the moment. 15:03:47 i saw the review that you posted 15:03:51 I put up a patch for monasca-ui changes for grafana 2. 15:04:09 i haven't tested, but I think it would be great to convert over 15:04:16 hpe isn't the primary user of the ui anymore 15:04:30 so, this would be up to other orgs to approve 15:04:40 I'm not sure who else is using the ui 15:04:42 also, your review is referencing your twc repos 15:04:57 Yes, since that's where monasca is at the moment. 15:04:59 fujitsu, nec, sap, ... 15:05:03 grafana, not monasca 15:05:27 true 15:05:37 i think they are all interested in your grafana changes 15:05:45 but i'm not sure if they are using 15:05:50 sap seemed very interested 15:06:07 i believe joachim was looking at it 15:06:15 we're using it, and interested in the Grafana 2 update at some point - I'll try to have a look at the patch 15:06:24 maybe just a little note from your side: darran hague from our team has added some more functionality to the grafana2 keystone stuff like syncing roles from keystone to grafana 15:06:40 thanks bmotz 15:06:43 thanks traichen 15:06:57 as far as i know ryan also implemented something like this and darran and ryan will try to merge their changes together somehow 15:07:02 shinya, are you looking at grafana 2 15:07:22 Sorry not yet 15:07:28 thx 15:07:29 tgraichen: Send me an email about those changes. I think we might have some overlap 15:07:49 I will try 15:07:50 i rbak: arran will contact you i think 15:07:58 sounds good 15:08:12 rbak: have you tested the devstack deploy 15:08:23 with your ui/grafana changes? 15:08:59 It passed the testing, but I haven't tested in devstack. 15:09:18 it would be really nice to see this integrated in devstack 15:09:25 Grafana requires building the packages yourself, so the monasca-ui links aren't going to work by default in devstack. 15:09:49 you can actually do a build in devstack 15:09:57 we build the jave projects i beleive 15:10:04 I'll look into it 15:10:20 the last time i tried the devstack build, horizon wasn't working for me 15:10:34 so, it could have been somethign was out-of-sync 15:10:35 monasca-ui, or horizon in general? 15:10:45 horizon in general 15:11:12 anyway, i'l kinda anxious to get all this working in-time for the summit 15:11:27 did it generate a traceback or was some functionality just not working quite right? 15:11:43 it generated a django traceback 15:11:50 that would be nice to see 15:11:56 not sure what i did with the error 15:12:13 i'll try again 15:12:22 I also want see traceback 15:12:51 and some general steps that lead to the traceback if possible (standard stuff I know) 15:13:20 ok, i'll try and get one, but can't do right now 15:14:46 early april I'm going to be putting together demos with broadview that will involve some amount of using monasca-ui grafana, if I see any bugs I'll report them (or fix them) 15:14:59 rbak: do you have any status update on whether they are going to accept your changes? 15:15:09 slogan: thanks 15:15:22 rhochmuth: That's not looking good at the moment. 15:15:31 ohh, what happened? 15:16:11 We had a lot of communication for a while, and had a plan for moving forward, but then they just disappeared. 15:16:35 I haven't heard anything for a while now. We're trying to get in touch again. 15:17:00 I'll give an update when I know more. 15:17:03 ok, thanks 15:17:22 so, i guess we';; have to use your repos 15:17:53 for the moment anyway. 15:19:06 well, anyway, just want to reitterate it would be nice to see this running in the devstack environment... 15:19:12 i guess next topic 15:19:50 #topic Periodic metrics 15:20:06 that's on me, lots and lots of questions :) 15:20:26 we might need to schedule a meeting on this one and get Craig involved 15:20:35 i started to review last night 15:20:54 and then craig told me he wasn't sure the direction you were headed was going to work 15:21:06 so, it is probably best to have some one-on-one time with him 15:21:14 but, you are free to ask away 15:21:24 if it is not too technical 15:21:28 i'm a ptl you know 15:21:32 lol 15:21:42 thanks slogan 15:21:58 you're tough :) and my questions are not technical 15:22:08 ok 15:22:12 please proceed 15:22:15 more or less I have couple points where I am not exactly sure where to go with implementation 15:22:26 ok 15:22:47 so, first of all for sparse metric, I've been thinking what should be the initial state the alarm should enter 15:23:00 till now it was UNDETERMINED, right ? 15:23:04 correct 15:23:05 but it was for periodic metrics 15:23:09 right 15:23:26 should stay the same at least till first measurements are received ? 15:23:42 it probably makes sense that a sparse metric would transition immediately 15:24:20 the alarm doesn't exist until the first metric is received 15:24:43 well, I've been testing it a bit and until first data arrives it stays with initial state UNDETERMINED 15:25:01 in he case of a period metric, it doesn't transition until after it has received some number of metrics 15:25:26 so, the alarm is created when the first metric is received in the undetermined state 15:25:39 lazy instantiation 15:25:53 then some number of metrics will need to be sent, until the threshold engine "has enough" 15:26:09 then it will transition to ok or alarm 15:26:14 yes 15:26:56 ok, IMHO it is better to put this to OK at once 15:27:00 but in the case of a sparse metric, it should transition when the alarm is created 15:27:03 i agree 15:27:13 at least in the sparse case 15:27:37 it should transiiton to the ok or alarm state 15:27:43 yes, because for periodic it should stay the same with one exception (if metric would come with period > 0, that value should be used) 15:28:00 *the behaviour should stay the same, I mean 15:28:07 correct 15:28:44 ok, so if nobody has any objections, let's move on, I don't want to spend too much time asking ;-) 15:28:58 next questions is for values of "value" and "period" 15:29:08 ok 15:29:43 for value I am not sure what should be the value, just make it 1.0 and stick to it or let any agent to set it on its own, but I'd rather think that it should be specified outside of the threshold engine (i.e. monasca-agent) 15:30:08 I mean metric['value'] ;-0 15:30:22 and that's also question for sparse metrics only 15:30:24 i'm not sure i follow 15:30:34 the value is sent for a sparse metric 15:31:09 so the value would normally just be the value of the last metric sent 15:31:42 mhm, yeah but it was better to ask, I got little lost in threshold engine but I need to come up with something at least testable 15:32:25 i don't think using the avg function is useful for sparse metrics 15:33:57 maybe not, I am not sure right now, but if it wouldn't make sense, we would need to modify logic somewhere to store period and in the same time do the same in monasca-ui to display only those functions that make sense 15:35:08 that is a possiblity, but a lot more invasive 15:35:22 i think the usage of the metric is implicit in the metric 15:35:27 not explicit 15:35:37 so the question would be what functions are not suitable, if any...but maybe that's not the right time to debate over this, I will put this in the agenda that will give some time to think over this 15:36:51 so for a sparse metric, raking the avg over the last 5 minutes or hour, either doesnt' make sense, ir it is just the last value that was sent, 15:37:04 unless multiple metrics were sent in the last time period 15:37:44 maybe if you would like set the metric (as we need in alarm-on-logs) to establish avg amount of logs from entire system, maybe that would make sense 15:37:55 *set the alarm 15:38:09 so, i'll talk to craig and will try and setup something with you to discuss implementation details further 15:38:13 does that sound ok 15:39:04 yes, I will keep the rest of the questions for that meeting 15:39:10 ok, thanks 15:39:26 #topic mitaka 15:39:40 we are coming up on the mitaka final release 15:39:52 i'll need to apply tags to all the monasca repos over the next few days 15:40:11 we have a number of reviews in flight, mainly focused on bugs and performance improvmenets 15:40:22 so, i would like to just focus on those for the next few days 15:40:33 in general, our master branch is always in excellent shape 15:40:52 so, i'm planning on moving tags to top of master by the end of the week 15:41:05 please heop out with reviews and testing if possible 15:41:15 as this is our first major release with monasca 15:41:22 official release that is 15:41:44 if anyone knows of anything that needs to be or shoudl be adressed pleae let me know 15:41:52 how does one gauge the priority of one review over another? 15:42:07 I recall when I was involved with neutron there would be a list somewhere 15:42:42 bugs and performance enhancements are usually priortized above features 15:42:50 we dont' have an active list like neutron 15:43:07 this priority is in the bug system (noob question) 15:43:19 possibly 15:43:23 ok 15:43:50 we also have bugs that are reported by our representative orgs, like hpe 15:44:21 there is some convention, like the commit message specifies the bug URI, or number? 15:44:43 correct, we use that when bugs are reported via launchpad 15:44:51 ok, cool 15:45:08 but sometimes bugs are jsut fixed, without a corresponding launchpad number 15:45:30 i'm probably violating some openstack rule somewhere 15:45:31 I guess then it is a matter of using the mailing list or IRC to get people aware of severity 15:45:44 yes, that is what we've been doing 15:45:52 it is often teh sequeky whell principle 15:46:01 but if a review has been sitting around for a while 15:46:12 usually just brining it up here is enoguht to get some attention to it 15:46:33 sometimes reviews sit around a while because they are difficult to test 15:46:38 or don't seem that important 15:46:43 nod 15:46:51 or folks are working on there own problems 15:47:04 but if it is raised here, usually someone gets to it 15:47:09 just to be clear, any bugs I file will be priority 1 :-P 15:47:15 i sometimes have to poke people here 15:47:21 haha 15:47:40 ok, hopeflly that is enough on that topic 15:47:54 we have around 10 minutes 15:48:00 i was going to give an influxdb update 15:48:12 but if there is something elese that is pressing please let me know 15:48:30 influx is pressing to stop releasing db for free... 15:48:38 tomasz: you can probably merge your review that deprecates the v2.0 log api 15:48:47 I've sent you e-mail about the summit and we can do that over e-mail if you like, I assume some rooms etc. were approvided 15:48:52 er, approved 15:49:11 slogan: i don't know yet, but i'll get with you over email 15:49:17 i'm still recovering from last week 15:49:18 perfect 15:49:25 mabe i shouldn't take off anymore 15:49:34 I was thinking that... 15:49:38 roland: ok, I will try to do this, I have one other thing to commit but once it is ready I'll just publish it 15:49:40 :-) 15:49:56 tomasz: cool, i'm just trying to get this into the mitaka release 15:50:04 and time is running out 15:50:19 although, we did merge the latest v3.0 code 15:50:24 so that is in good shape 15:50:30 i'll look for your changes 15:51:12 #topic influxdb 15:51:25 so, we had a discussion with them yesterday 15:51:51 they are going to review to see if they come up with anything that would meet the requirement for an open-source ha influxdb 15:52:14 i was wondering what other s thoguht about this announcement 15:52:17 and the impact 15:52:44 we're more concerned about the clustering 15:53:00 that is what i meant by the ha 15:53:12 ah, ok :) 15:53:18 basically, clustering in influxdb will be closed source 15:53:46 from what paul said, the free product without clustering will support HA, and ~400 metrics/sec 15:53:54 sorry -- 400K :) 15:54:26 it is poor man's ha 15:54:35 in the medium term we're looking at scaling to data rates an order of magnitude or three above that... 15:54:35 basially replication to another influxdb instance 15:54:40 basically duplicate writes 15:54:44 yup 15:54:50 which we can already do in monasca using kafka and the persister 15:55:06 correct, duplicate writes 15:55:17 so, that implies databases coudl get out of sync 15:55:23 for sure 15:55:33 you get what you pay for :) 15:55:34 kafka occers a certain amount of protection, 15:55:42 yeah, i can't argue that 15:55:55 from an hpe perspective, vertica is superior to influxdb 15:56:04 from which version the clustering will be close source? 15:56:10 0.11? 15:56:10 it's only issue was that it is closed source 15:56:15 and Vertica has a clearer pricing struture! 15:56:15 0.12 15:56:37 and vertica is free up to 1TB? 15:56:48 i'm sure vertica is clearer, and proabbly more expensvie, after the 1TB limit 15:57:12 does the free vertica < 1TB allow clustering? 15:57:16 yes 15:57:35 i think it is full featured, just a 1TB limit 15:57:49 that's pretty good 15:58:17 yes, with the encoding, you are getting a significant amount of "compression" 15:58:28 so 1 TB translates proabbly into around 20 15:58:48 is there any TS opensource database that could fit the bill? 15:58:49 wow 15:59:03 i think the license limit is based on uncompressed ingest 15:59:13 like OpenTSB or such? 15:59:26 yes, that is true, but i don't think they count the encoding that we use as compression 15:59:46 we are still looking at cassandra 16:00:09 ok, time is up everyone 16:00:18 i need to end the meeting 16:00:22 bye 16:00:24 cya 16:00:25 so cheers and good luck till next time 16:00:27 bye 16:00:27 cya 16:00:29 bye 16:00:32 thanks & bye 16:00:39 #endmeeting