Summary

In this chapter, we looked at how to view, aggregate, and plot telemetry data using Ceilometer. This data is useful to monitor the health of a set of instances, a billing client, and so on. As mentioned in this chapter, Ceilometer's alarms are a useful resource for the orchestration tool in OpenStack. Next, we will look at cloud orchestration using the OpenStack component named Heat.

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