All the files in this section can be found in the /etc/ceilometer/ directory.

The configuration for the Telemetry services and agents is found in the ceilometer.conf file. This file must be modified after installation.

The event_definitions.yaml file defines how events received from other OpenStack components should be translated to Telemetry events. This file provides a standard set of events and corresponding traits that may be of interest. This file can be modified to add and drop traits that operators may find useful.

Pipelines describe a coupling between sources of samples and the corresponding sinks for transformation and publication of the data. They are defined in the pipeline.yaml file. This file can be modified to adjust polling intervals and the samples generated by the Telemetry module

Event pipelines describe a coupling between notification event_types and the corresponding sinks for publication of the event data. They are defined in the event_pipeline.yaml file. This file can be modified to adjust which notifications to capture and the and where to publish the events.

The policy.json file defines additional access controls that apply to the Telemetry service.