Uptime/VCPU hours of stopped Instances Keep on increasing even if instance satus is in shutdown mode

[krypto]

I am using Folsom on Ubunru 12.04 with Horizon.

Created 5 instances on KVM on 12.04 (running nova-compute only )and with out stopping VM, restarted Host machine.
Under Instance Tab status of all instance is Shutdown but under "Overview" Uptime of VM keeps on increasing.
Same in case of VCPU hours.

[Gabriel Hurley (gabriel-hurley)]

They are currently based on the created_at time, which is definitely not ideal. We should revisit this in H.

[Tihomir Trifonov (ttrifonov)]

The uptime is calculated in nova... so not much to do in Horizon... In fact the 'uptime' might need to be defined what means for OpenStack - is it the total time the instance is being alive in the virt manager(either running or shut off) - which is the current definition, or the total time the instance is being active(power state == RUNNING)...

[Santiago Baldassin (santiago-b-baldassin)]

This is not a valid bug. Uptime actually reflects the time since the instance was created, maybe the title is misleading but the value is correct. Vcpu hours are returned by nova, horizon just displays what nova returns

[Julie Pichon (jpichon)]

Since it causes enough confusion that people open bug reports, we should rename the column. Any suggestion on what would be appropriate? "Time since creation" sounds like it should be good enough.

[Ashish Chandra (ashish-chandra)]

I second Julie, Renaming the column would be better option.

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/125332

[Matthias Runge (mrunge)]

This is a prominent issue, confusing users.

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/125332
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/horizon/commit/?id=b5b09140b1906d6fc401493908003f6312d720a9
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: master

commit b5b09140b1906d6fc401493908003f6312d720a9
Author: Matthias Runge <email address hidden>
Date: Wed Oct 1 14:00:31 2014 +0200

    Change column uptime

    Renamed misleading column uptime

    Change-Id: Id72c10a7166943fcfef68c338a1412897ad9cc4b
    Closes-Bug: #1156563