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Tony Campbell grew up in the heart of Silicon Valley where he had access and exposure to many technology companies that led the Internet boom. He started programming in the early 90s and has been hooked since then. Tony is committed to helping others understand and successfully adopt OpenStack.
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Ceilometer dependencies


Ceilometer has a few external dependencies that troubleshooters need to be familiar with. Like the other OpenStack services, Ceilometer makes heavy use of the message broker. In most installations, the message broker will be RabbitMQ. Ceilometer will read events and notifications from the message queue, and translate that data into meters. In addition, Ceilometer relies on a database to store all the meters, events, notifications, and so on. The recommended database for Ceilometer is MongoDB. Ceilometer introduces the MongoDB noSQL database, while most other OpenStack projects use a relational database, such as MySQL. When troubleshooting Ceilometer, you want to make sure that each of these dependencies are in good working order.

The message broker

During the Ceilometer installation process, you will need to make sure that RabbitMQ, or another message broker, is installed and configured properly. The configuration for the message broker can be found in Ceilometer's...

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Tony Campbell grew up in the heart of Silicon Valley where he had access and exposure to many technology companies that led the Internet boom. He started programming in the early 90s and has been hooked since then. Tony is committed to helping others understand and successfully adopt OpenStack.
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