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Strategies can require, from Watcher, metrics collected on the IAAS. Watcher uses only Ceilometer API to retrieve metrics. Change the metrics database backend, add a new metric is not in the scope of Watcher, but rather in the Ceilometer one. We add some links to Ceilometer documentation about these topics. Change-Id: If37c7df8e5852f5ecf94b4a9eb9c8c91fe6637eb
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Watcher
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OpenStack Watcher provides a flexible and scalable resource optimization
service for multi-tenant OpenStack-based clouds.
Watcher provides a complete optimization loop—including everything from a
metrics receiver, complex event processor and profiler, optimization processor
and an action plan applier. This provides a robust framework to realize a wide
range of cloud optimization goals, including the reduction of data center
operating costs, increased system performance via intelligent virtual machine
migration, increased energy efficiency—and more!
* Free software: Apache license
* Wiki: http://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Watcher
* Source: https://github.com/openstack/watcher
* Bugs: http://bugs.launchpad.net/watcher
* Documentation: https://factory.b-com.com/www/watcher/doc/watcher/index.html