diff --git a/doc/source/admin/telemetry-data-collection.rst b/doc/source/admin/telemetry-data-collection.rst index 70c04fe0e3..7890389710 100644 --- a/doc/source/admin/telemetry-data-collection.rst +++ b/doc/source/admin/telemetry-data-collection.rst @@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ Meter definitions The Telemetry service collects a subset of the meters by filtering notifications emitted by other OpenStack services. You can find the meter definitions in a separate configuration file, called -``ceilometer/meter/data/meters.yaml``. This enables +``ceilometer/data/meters.d/meters.yaml``. This enables operators/administrators to add new meters to Telemetry project by updating the ``meters.yaml`` file without any need for additional code changes. @@ -216,6 +216,10 @@ the ``meters.yaml`` file without any need for additional code changes. collected meters can differ in some cases from what is referenced in the documentation. +It also support loading multiple meter definition files and allow users to add +their own meter definitions into several files according to different types of +metrics under the directory of ``/etc/ceilometer/meters.d``. + A standard meter definition looks like: .. code-block:: yaml