From 035bcbba47bace2c130ca2511281acd26b060b49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Helena McGough <helena.mcgough@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 10:16:51 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Created a tool to delete metrics

 - Provided the delete metrics tool
 - Provided instructions for tool in devStackGSG.rst

Change-Id: I7921687c2ebde4a90a1a101c39d1f1561b90b5d9
---
 doc/source/devstackGSG.rst | 12 ++++++++++++
 tools/delete_metrics.sh    |  8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 tools/delete_metrics.sh

diff --git a/doc/source/devstackGSG.rst b/doc/source/devstackGSG.rst
index 60e5e2e..c5157d7 100644
--- a/doc/source/devstackGSG.rst
+++ b/doc/source/devstackGSG.rst
@@ -141,6 +141,18 @@ To deploy with gnocchi using DevStack, add the following to you local.conf:
       GNOCCHI_USE_KEYSTONE=True
       COLLECTD_GNOCCHI_ENABLED=True
 
+Gnocchi Tools
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+ * delete_metrics
+   A delete metrics tool is available to delete all metrics. This tool has to
+   be used manually. See :doc:`<tools/delete_metrics.sh>`
+   To delete all of the pre-existing metrics, just run the following command:
+
+     ::
+
+       $ . tools/delete_metrics.sh
+
 Aodh
 ----
 
diff --git a/tools/delete_metrics.sh b/tools/delete_metrics.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..2416763
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/delete_metrics.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+echo "All gnocchi plugin metrics are being deleted. This may take a few minutes.."
+for metric in `openstack metric metric list | awk 'NR > 2 {print $2}'`;
+do
+    openstack metric metric delete $metric
+done
+echo "All metrics created by the collectd-gnocchi-plugin have been deleted"