diff --git a/ceilometer/collector.py b/ceilometer/collector.py
index 6ac2cab1d1..df4beff71f 100644
--- a/ceilometer/collector.py
+++ b/ceilometer/collector.py
@@ -70,6 +70,11 @@ class CollectorService(cotyledon.Service):
         self.event_listener = None
         self.udp_thread = None
 
+        import debtcollector
+        debtcollector.deprecate("Ceilometer collector service is deprecated."
+                                "Use publishers to push data instead",
+                                version="9.0", removal_version="10.0")
+
     def run(self):
         if self.conf.collector.udp_address:
             self.udp_thread = utils.spawn_thread(self.start_udp)
diff --git a/devstack/plugin.sh b/devstack/plugin.sh
index dbeb60c194..25cce1e46c 100644
--- a/devstack/plugin.sh
+++ b/devstack/plugin.sh
@@ -267,9 +267,16 @@ function _ceilometer_configure_storage_backend {
         die $LINENO "Unable to configure unknown CEILOMETER_BACKEND $CEILOMETER_BACKEND"
     fi
 
+    if [ "$CEILOMETER_BACKEND" = 'mysql' ] || [ "$CEILOMETER_BACKEND" = 'postgresql' ] || [ "$CEILOMETER_BACKEND" = 'mongodb' ]; then
+        sed -i 's/gnocchi:\/\//database:\/\//g' $CEILOMETER_CONF_DIR/event_pipeline.yaml $CEILOMETER_CONF_DIR/pipeline.yaml
+    fi
+
     # configure panko
     if is_service_enabled panko-api; then
         iniadd $CEILOMETER_CONF DEFAULT event_dispatchers panko
+        if ! grep -q 'panko' $CEILOMETER_CONF_DIR/event_pipeline.yaml ; then
+            echo '          - direct://?dispatcher=panko' >> $CEILOMETER_CONF_DIR/event_pipeline.yaml
+        fi
     fi
 
     _ceilometer_drop_database
diff --git a/devstack/settings b/devstack/settings
index d8ad97d50a..f82513f2e4 100644
--- a/devstack/settings
+++ b/devstack/settings
@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@
 enable_service ceilometer-acompute ceilometer-acentral
 # Notification Agent
 enable_service ceilometer-anotification
-# Data Collector
-enable_service ceilometer-collector
 
 # Default directories
 CEILOMETER_DIR=$DEST/ceilometer
diff --git a/doc/source/configuration.rst b/doc/source/configuration.rst
index b5b9de6d85..157db4fc27 100644
--- a/doc/source/configuration.rst
+++ b/doc/source/configuration.rst
@@ -188,7 +188,8 @@ data should be sent after the possible transformations. The names of the
 publishers should be the same as the related names of the plugins in
 :file:`setup.cfg`.
 
-The default configuration can be found in `pipeline.yaml`_.
+The default configuration can be found in `pipeline.yaml`_. For more details about
+how to configure dispatchers under publisher in the :ref:`dispatcher-configuration`.
 
 .. _pipeline.yaml: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/ceilometer/tree/etc/ceilometer/pipeline.yaml
 
diff --git a/doc/source/install/custom.rst b/doc/source/install/custom.rst
index 3f48a9ed45..f5e5e6cc7d 100644
--- a/doc/source/install/custom.rst
+++ b/doc/source/install/custom.rst
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ For polling agent using ceilometer-polling.conf, settings like::
 
 Doing this, it's easy to listen/receive data from multiple internal and external services.
 
+..  _dispatcher-configuration:
 
 Using multiple dispatchers
 ==========================
diff --git a/doc/source/install/manual.rst b/doc/source/install/manual.rst
index d59fd13caa..8987dcab31 100644
--- a/doc/source/install/manual.rst
+++ b/doc/source/install/manual.rst
@@ -20,6 +20,11 @@
  Installing Manually
 =====================
 
+.. note::
+
+   Ceilometer collector service is deprecated. Configure dispatchers under publisher
+   in pipeline to push data instead. For more details about how to configure
+   dispatchers in the :ref:`dispatcher-configuration`.
 
 Storage Backend Installation
 ============================
diff --git a/etc/ceilometer/event_pipeline.yaml b/etc/ceilometer/event_pipeline.yaml
index a91c46a1c3..6482f4f285 100644
--- a/etc/ceilometer/event_pipeline.yaml
+++ b/etc/ceilometer/event_pipeline.yaml
@@ -9,4 +9,4 @@ sinks:
     - name: event_sink
       transformers:
       publishers:
-          - notifier://
+          - gnocchi://
diff --git a/etc/ceilometer/pipeline.yaml b/etc/ceilometer/pipeline.yaml
index 59e6f8fca6..53106399c2 100644
--- a/etc/ceilometer/pipeline.yaml
+++ b/etc/ceilometer/pipeline.yaml
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ sinks:
     - name: meter_sink
       transformers:
       publishers:
-          - notifier://
+          - gnocchi://
     - name: cpu_sink
       transformers:
           - name: "rate_of_change"
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ sinks:
                     type: "gauge"
                     scale: "100.0 / (10**9 * (resource_metadata.cpu_number or 1))"
       publishers:
-          - notifier://
+          - gnocchi://
     - name: cpu_delta_sink
       transformers:
           - name: "delta"
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ sinks:
                     name: "cpu.delta"
                 growth_only: True
       publishers:
-          - notifier://
+          - gnocchi://
     - name: disk_sink
       transformers:
           - name: "rate_of_change"
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ sinks:
                         unit: "\\1/s"
                     type: "gauge"
       publishers:
-          - notifier://
+          - gnocchi://
     - name: network_sink
       transformers:
           - name: "rate_of_change"
@@ -85,4 +85,4 @@ sinks:
                         unit: "\\1/s"
                     type: "gauge"
       publishers:
-          - notifier://
+          - gnocchi://
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/deprecate-ceilometer-collector-b793b91cd28b9e7f.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/deprecate-ceilometer-collector-b793b91cd28b9e7f.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..beec916790
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/deprecate-ceilometer-collector-b793b91cd28b9e7f.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+---
+features:
+  - |
+    Because of deprecating the collector, the default publishers in
+    pipeline.yaml and event_pipeline.yaml are now changed using database
+    instead of notifier.
+deprecations:
+  - |
+    Collector is no longer supported in this release. The collector
+    introduces lags in pushing data to backend. To optimize the
+    architecture, Ceilometer push data through dispatchers using
+    publishers in notification agent directly.