update best practices

- remove 'prior to ocata' conditions.
- remove shuffle_time_before_polling_task as it doesn't work in
reality and is being removed.
- add a note when to enable workload_partitioning of notification
agent

Change-Id: I44c030835de1517a3c067ab0632c09f4a5fe2f15
(cherry picked from commit be1fa8f840051be24e3c8cdd8a6a8e24bee81f3f)

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 20 deletions

diff --git a/doc/source/admin/telemetry-best-practices.rst b/doc/source/admin/telemetry-best-practices.rst
index 16e9be97..4aa20dd6 100644
--- a/doc/source/admin/telemetry-best-practices.rst
+++ b/doc/source/admin/telemetry-best-practices.rst
@@ -11,40 +11,30 @@ Data collection
 #. The Telemetry service collects a continuously growing set of data. Not
    all the data will be relevant for an administrator to monitor.
 
-   -  Based on your needs, you can edit the ``pipeline.yaml`` configuration
-      file to include a selected number of meters while disregarding the
-      rest. Similarly, in Ocata, you will need to edit ``polling.yaml`` to
-      define which meters to generate.
+   -  Based on your needs, you can edit the ``polling.yaml`` and
+      ``pipeline.yaml`` configuration files to include select meters to
+      generate or process
 
    -  By default, Telemetry service polls the service APIs every 10
       minutes. You can change the polling interval on a per meter basis by
       editing the ``polling.yaml`` configuration file.
 
-      .. note::
-
-         Prior to Ocata, the polling configuration was handled by
-         ``pipeline.yaml``
-
       .. warning::
 
          If the polling interval is too short, it will likely increase the
          stress on the service APIs.
 
-   -  Expand the configuration to have greater control over different meter
-      intervals. For more information, see the
-      :ref:`telemetry-pipeline-configuration`.
-
-#. You can delay or adjust polling requests by enabling the jitter support.
-   This adds a random delay on how the polling agents send requests to the
-   service APIs. To enable jitter, set ``shuffle_time_before_polling_task`` in
-   the ``ceilometer.conf`` configuration file to an integer greater
-   than 0.
-
 #. If polling many resources or at a high frequency, you can add additional
    central and compute agents as necessary. The agents are designed to scale
    horizontally. For more information refer to the `high availability guide
    <https://docs.openstack.org/ha-guide/controller-ha-telemetry.html>`_.
 
+#. `workload_partitioning` of notification agents is only required if
+   the pipeline configuration leverages transformers. It may also be enabled if
+   batching is required to minimize load on the defined publisher targets. If
+   transformers are not enabled, multiple agents may still be deployed without
+   `workload_partitioning` and processing will be done greedily.
+
 Data storage
 ------------
 
@@ -125,4 +115,3 @@ Data storage
 
    For more information on sharding, see the `MongoDB sharding
    docs <http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/sharding/>`__.
-