[R4.0 build 15]ceilometer api calls were failing

R4.0 build 15 mitaka ubuntu14-04

Not able to make ceilometer api calls

root@nodei31:~# ceilometer meter-list
HTTPConnectionPool(host='10.204.217.143', port=8777): Max retries exceeded with url: /v2/meters (Caused by NewConnectionError('<requests.packages.urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x7fd822301290>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] Connection refused',))

openstack-status

== Ceilometer services ==
ceilometer-api: active
ceilometer-agent-central: active
ceilometer-agent-compute: inactive (disabled on boot)
ceilometer-collector: active
ceilometer-agent-notification:active

seeing these errors in the api log

 ERROR ceilometer Traceback (most recent call last):
2017-05-30 11:20:10.034 22741 ERROR ceilometer File "/usr/bin/ceilometer-api", line 10, in <module>
2017-05-30 11:20:10.034 22741 ERROR ceilometer sys.exit(main())
2017-05-30 11:20:10.034 22741 ERROR ceilometer File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ceilometer/cmd/api.py", line 23, in main
2017-05-30 11:20:10.034 22741 ERROR ceilometer app.build_server()
2017-05-30 11:20:10.034 22741 ERROR ceilometer File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ceilometer/api/app.py", line 105, in build_server
2017-05-30 11:20:10.034 22741 ERROR ceilometer app = load_app()
2017-05-30 11:20:10.034 22741 ERROR ceilometer File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ceilometer/api/app.py", line 101, in load_app
2017-05-30 11:20:10.034 22741 ERROR ceilometer return deploy.loadapp("config:" + cfg_file)
2017-05-30 11:20:10.034 22741 ERROR ceilometer File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/paste/deploy/loadwsgi.py", line 247, in loadapp
2017-05-30 11:20:10.034 22741 ERROR ceilometer return loadobj(APP, uri, name=name, **kw)
2017-05-30 11:20:10.034 22741 ERROR ceilometer File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/paste/deploy/loadwsgi.py", line 272, in loadobj
2017-05-30 11:20:10.034 22741 ERROR ceilometer return context.create()
2017-05-30 11:20:10.034 22741 ERROR ceilometer File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/paste/deploy/loadwsgi.py", line 710, in create
2017-05-30 11:20:10.034 22741 ERROR ceilometer return self.object_type.invoke(self)
2017-05-30 11:20:10.034 22741 ERROR ceilometer File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/paste/deploy/loadwsgi.py", line 203, in invoke
2017-05-30 11:20:10.034 22741 ERROR ceilometer app = context.app_context.create()
2017-05-30 11:20:10.034 22741 ERROR ceilometer File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/paste/deploy/loadwsgi.py", line 710, in create
2017-05-30 11:20:10.034 22741 ERROR ceilometer return self.object_type.invoke(self)
2017-05-30 11:20:10.034 22741 ERROR ceilometer File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/paste/deploy/loadwsgi.py", line 146, in invoke
2017-05-30 11:20:10.034 22741 ERROR ceilometer return fix_call(context.object, context.global_conf, **context.local_conf)
2017-05-30 11:20:10.034 22741 ERROR ceilometer File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/paste/deploy/util.py", line 55, in fix_call
2017-05-30 11:20:10.034 22741 ERROR ceilometer val = callable(*args, **kw)
2017-05-30 11:20:10.034 22741 ERROR ceilometer File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ceilometer/api/app.py", line 126, in app_factory
2017-05-30 11:20:10.034 22741 ERROR ceilometer return setup_app()
2017-05-30 11:20:10.034 22741 ERROR ceilometer File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ceilometer/api/app.py", line 58, in setup_app
2017-05-30 11:20:10.034 22741 ERROR ceilometer hooks.DBHook(),
2017-05-30 11:20:10.034 22741 ERROR ceilometer File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ceilometer/api/hooks.py", line 53, in __init__
2017-05-30 11:20:10.034 22741 ERROR ceilometer ', '.join(['metering', 'event']))
2017-05-30 11:20:10.034 22741 ERROR ceilometer Exception: Api failed to start. Failed to connect to databases, purpose: metering, event
2017-05-30 11:20:10.034 22741 ERROR ceilometer

again in 10 seconds.
2017-05-30 11:16:49.712 22741 WARNING ceilometer.storage.mongo.utils [-] Unable to reconnect to the primary mongodb: 10.204.217.143:27017: [Errno 111] Connection refused. Trying again in 10 seconds.
2017-05-30 11:17:29.775 22741 WARNING ceilometer.storage.mongo.utils [-] Unable to reconnect to the primary mongodb: 10.204.217.143:27017: [Errno 111] Connection refused. Trying again in 10 seconds.
2017-05-30 11:18:09.841 22741 WARNING ceilometer.storage.mongo.utils [-] Unable to reconnect to the primary mongodb: 10.204.217.143:27017: [Errno 111] Connection refused. Trying again in 10 seconds.
2017-05-30 11:18:49.905 22741 WARNING ceilometer.storage.mongo.utils [-] Unable to reconnect to the primary mongodb: 10.204.217.143:27017: [Errno 111] Connection refused. Trying again in 10 seconds.
2017-05-30 11:19:29.965 22741 WARNING ceilometer.storage.mongo.utils [-] Unable to reconnect to the primary mongodb: 10.204.217.143:27017: [Errno 111] Connection refused. Trying again in 10 seconds.