1. Installing OpenStack on an Ubuntu 14.04 vm (run the following commands as ubuntu user not root): sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade sudo apt-get -y install git-core ntp openssh-server cpu-checker git clone http://git.openstack.org/openstack-dev/devstack pushd devstack cat <<EOF > localrc GIT_BASE=${GIT_BASE:- https://git.openstack.org } MYSQL_PASSWORD=password RABBIT_PASSWORD=password SERVICE_TOKEN=password ADMIN_PASSWORD=password SERVICE_PASSWORD=password PUBLIC_INTERFACE=eth0 Enable Ceilometer enable_service ceilometer-acompute ceilometer-acentral ceilometer-anotification ceilometer-collector enable_service ceilometer-alarm-evaluator,ceilometer-alarm-notifier enable_service ceilometer-api CEILOMETER_BACKEND=${CEILOMETER_BACKEND:-mongodb} EOF ./stack.sh Grab some coffee, It will take ~30 mins 2. Create a ceilometer user on the mongodb 3.0.5 server db = db.getSiblingDB("ceilometer"); db.createUser( {user: "ceilometer", pwd: "password", roles: ["readWrite", "dbAdmin"]} )"; 3. Point ceilometer to a mongodb 3.0.5 instance Edit /etc/ceilometer/ceilometer.conf file with the following setting [database] connection = mongodb://ceilometer:password@<IP_OF_MONGODB_SERVER>:27017/ceilometer 4. Restart ceilometer services on the openstack server screen -d -R stack Press CTRL+" to get a list of services For each ceilometer service, press ctrl+c to stop it and then up arrow to re-run the last command 5. Make it crash Point your browser to the http://openstackserver/horizon Login with admin/password Click on Admin->System->Resource Usage