Testing the installation

Now that Ceilometer has been installed, we need to be able to test it. In order to do so, we will use the controller node and export the admin credentials.

In order to see the current meters, we will execute the following command:

ceilometer meter-list

This will show the current metered units. Since we do not have anything metered, it will show something like the following screenshot:

Testing the installation

We see the image and the image size at the two meters that are available.

We will now perform some functions and ensure that Ceilometer picks them up. One such simple task is downloading an image from Glance. So, we have one image that we called ...

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