Description of configuration options for database

Configuration option = Default value	Description
[DEFAULT]
database_connection = None	(StrOpt) DEPRECATED - Database connection string.
[database]
alarm_connection = None	(StrOpt) The connection string used to connect to the alarm database. (if unset, connection is used)
backend = sqlalchemy	(StrOpt) The backend to use for db
connection = None	(StrOpt) The SQLAlchemy connection string used to connect to the database
connection_debug = 0	(IntOpt) Verbosity of SQL debugging information. 0=None, 100=Everything
connection_trace = False	(BoolOpt) Add python stack traces to SQL as comment strings
db_inc_retry_interval = True	(BoolOpt) Whether to increase interval between db connection retries, up to db_max_retry_interval
db_max_retries = 20	(IntOpt) maximum db connection retries before error is raised. (setting -1 implies an infinite retry count)
db_max_retry_interval = 10	(IntOpt) max seconds between db connection retries, if db_inc_retry_interval is enabled
db_retry_interval = 1	(IntOpt) seconds between db connection retries
idle_timeout = 3600	(IntOpt) Timeout before idle sql connections are reaped
max_overflow = None	(IntOpt) If set, use this value for max_overflow with sqlalchemy
max_pool_size = None	(IntOpt) Maximum number of SQL connections to keep open in a pool
max_retries = 10	(IntOpt) Maximum db connection retries during startup. (setting -1 implies an infinite retry count)
metering_connection = None	(StrOpt) The connection string used to connect to the meteting database. (if unset, connection is used)
min_pool_size = 1	(IntOpt) Minimum number of SQL connections to keep open in a pool
mysql_sql_mode = TRADITIONAL	(StrOpt) The SQL mode to be used for MySQL sessions. This option, including the default, overrides any server-set SQL mode. To use whatever SQL mode is set by the server configuration, set this to no value. Example: mysql_sql_mode=
pool_timeout = None	(IntOpt) If set, use this value for pool_timeout with sqlalchemy
retry_interval = 10	(IntOpt) Interval between retries of opening a sql connection
sqlite_db = ceilometer.sqlite	(StrOpt) The file name to use with SQLite
sqlite_synchronous = True	(BoolOpt) If True, SQLite uses synchronous mode
time_to_live = -1	(IntOpt) Number of seconds that samples are kept in the database for (<= 0 means forever).
use_db_reconnect = False	(BoolOpt) Enable the experimental use of database reconnect on connection lost