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as in the subject I need to put the defined metrics' measures on a kafka topic in order to feed our monitoring system. I've seen that Ceilometer's Kafka publisher is deprecated so it's not a deal, but it's possible to:

  • configure the publisher for writing to a file;
  • use a notifier like amqp, even if in this case is not clear if I've to setup an external broker.

Both solutions seem compliant with Kafka-Connect. Can anybody share his/her experience about this stuff? OpenStack's documentation is a little poor about this topic (at least for me). Any suggestion would be of help. Thanks for your time ny

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As you said, kafka publisher was deprecated in very new version due to adapt ceilometer-gnocchi solution. But this doesn't mean that you can not use the deprecated code and former abilities.

You can just configure kafka publisher in pipeline.yaml file directly.

---
sources:
    - name: meter_kafka
      interval: 600
      meters:
          - "*"
      sinks:
          - kafka_sink
sinks:
    - name: kafka_sink
      transformers:
      publishers:
          - kafka://[kafka_broker_ip]:[kafka_broker_port]?topic=[topic]
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  • Thanks for the answer. Unfortunately our OS distribution is Red Hat's one and to implement a solution based on a deprecated component leads to a broken support contract. They haven't an out-of-the-box solution for but this need should be addressed in order to have a performance management solution. BR – user2523783 Feb 13 '18 at 09:01
  • @user2523783 So what you mean is that you guys can't modify its source code? If so, you have lots of works to go. – bonn Feb 13 '18 at 09:40
  • The problem is our operation department needs support for the everyday activities (we're an engineering dept.) and a blueprint has been agreed with RedHat but it doesn't include the use of deprecated code. We're way from devops.... – user2523783 Feb 14 '18 at 10:55