Re: [Hawkular-dev] availability and metric endpoints
On 20 Mar 2015, at 17:23, Lukas Krejci wrote:
Isn't metrics going to store "events" eventually, too?
Those would be
textual,
wouldn't they?
Also, IMHO, even config could be stored in metrics. Even though that
is a bit
of a stretch, configuration is after all a time series of structured
data...
If so, would we need to rename this to Hawkular-storage (?) :-)
Seriously, I think we should consider better decoupling the actual
storage from
api and semantics. Sounds probably pretty strange, so let me explain:
If we consider everything a "metric" we are sucking in more and more
dependencies into metrics or vice versa. But in fact (and we are seeing
it with the availability discussion), items like availability / computed
resource state,
inventory data, ... have a semantic that differs a lot from metrics.
We may still want to store all that in Cassandra, but not necessarily in
the
same place inside it. And even less have one api "POST /stuff" where
people
throw everything at, but rather specialized ones.