Support Ceilometer alarm Gnocchi rules¶

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/heat/+spec/ceilometer-gnocchi-alarm

Gnocchi provides two new kind of Ceilometer alarm rules that allows to query Gnocchi API instead of Ceilometer API to retreive statistics about Ceilometer monitored metrics.

This blueprint proposes to add the corresponding heat resources:

OS::Ceilometer::GnocchiResourcesAlarm

OS::Ceilometer::GnocchiMetricsAlarm

Problem description¶

It’s now possible to send Ceilometer samples to Gnocchi in additional of the traditional database and to create alarms that query Gnocchi API instead of Ceilometer API to retreive statistics. But currently we can’t create this kind of alarm with heat, this BP will solve this issue.

Proposed change¶

Add the OS::Ceilometer::GnocchiResourcesAlarm like this:

resources:
  type: OS::Ceilometer::GnocchiResourcesAlarm
  properties:
    description: Scale-down if the average CPU < 15% for 1 minutes
    metric: cpu_util
    aggregation_method: mean
    granularity: 300
    evaluation_periods: 1
    threshold: 1
    comparison_operator: lt
    alarm_actions:
      - {get_attr: [web_server_scaledown_policy, alarm_url]}
    resource_type: instance
    resource_constraint:
      str_replace:
        template: 'server_group=stack_id'
        params:
          stack_id: {get_param: "OS::stack_id"}

Add the OS::Ceilometer::GnocchiMetricsAlarm like this:

resources:
  type: OS::Ceilometer::GnocchiMetricsAlarm
  properties:
    description: Scale-down if the average CPU < 15% for 1 minutes
    metrics: ["09ff6ad8-1704-4f18-8989-6559307dfe79",
              "dea49e52-be42-4c71-bd77-fe265b1b6dbb"]
    aggregation_method: mean
    granularity: 300
    evaluation_periods: 1
    threshold: 1
    comparison_operator: lt
    alarm_actions:
      - {get_attr: [web_server_scaledown_policy, alarm_url]}

These resources will start to live in /contrib and will move into the supported resources when gnocchi will move into openstack namespace after k-3.

Alternatives¶

None

Usage Scenario¶

I want to create an autoscaling group that scale down when a statistics against cpu_util of a group of vm computed by Gnocchi, reach a certain threshold:

resources:
  type: OS::Ceilometer::GnocchiResourcesAlarm
  properties:
    description: Scale-down if the average CPU < 15% for 1 minutes
    metric: cpu_util
    aggregation_method: mean
    granularity: 300
    evaluation_periods: 1
    threshold: 1
    comparison_operator: lt
    alarm_actions:
      - {get_attr: [web_server_scaledown_policy, alarm_url]}
    resource_type: instance
    resource_constraint:
      str_replace:
        template: 'server_group=stack_id'
        params:
          stack_id: {get_param: "OS::stack_id"}

Implementation¶

Assignee(s)¶

Primary assignee:: Mehdi Abaakouk <sileht@redhat.com>

Milestones¶

Target Milestone for completion:: Kilo-3

Work Items¶

Add the new Ceilometer alarm resources

Dependencies¶