Support Time To Live on Event Database

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ceilometer/+spec/event-database-ttl

Problem description

Event database grows over time, after we dump data to larger storage system, the old data in event database should be cleared, but now, there is no such way to do it.

Proposed change

Add time to live feature on event database, just like what we do on metering database. A new option event_time_to_live will be added, such as what we do for metering database.

Alternatives

None

Data model impact

None

REST API impact

None

Security impact

None

Pipeline impact

None

Other end user impact

User now can clean event database when they run ceilometer-expirer and set event_time_to_live options to value that larger than 0.

Performance/Scalability Impacts

Performance can be improved since event database can keep light.

Other deployer impact

None

Developer impact

None

Implementation

Assignee(s)

Primary assignee:

aji-zqfan

Other contributors:

Contributors who want to help on databases except MongoDB

Ongoing maintainer:

aji-zqfan

Work Items

  1. Implement it on MongoDB

  2. Implement it on other database back end

Future lifecycle

None

Dependencies

None

Testing

Unit test code will be added along with source code.

Documentation Impact

New option will be added, so OS Configuration Document should be update, and new feature is added, Administrator’s Guide Document should be updated too. But not this spec’s job.

References

None