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On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Pierre-Yves Ritschard <p...@spootnik.org>wrote: > The idea is to have a simple way of naming things, the identity of a > metric will be defined by the keys in the attr section. > To generate path names for graphite or rrd plugins, the write output > plugin would look for special expected keys (source, metric). Input plugins > could additionally hint at the way to format > their name, by specifying a list of keys to look up (e.g: format: [ > "source", "cpu-type", "cpu-id"]). > > This would actually make the metric names of such plugins as IPMI or > GenericJMX much cleaner, especially with graphite since right now it's a > mess of arbitrary length trees > > > > On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 9:45 PM, Poil <p...@quake.fr> wrote: > >> It's a good idea to change this naming schema. >> >> I like the first alternative "a path", really simple, and easy to draw, >> group ... >> I don't understand how you can have a JSON object with RRD/Filesystem, >> will you go on a only nosql storage ? >> >> If you use a path, types.db can be limited to derive/counter, the labels >> can be in the path himself or in the filename, like this we will not have >> to deploy it on all nodes when we need a new "type" >> >> Today I have to hack it for GenericJMX, Curl, some python code ... >> I'm using this ( >> https://github.com/Poil/CGraphz/wiki/CGraphz%20Naming%20Schema) : >> >> - host >> - plugin >> - plugin category (custom optional) >> - plugin instance (optional) >> - type >> - type category (custom optional) >> - type instance (optional) >> >> PluginCategory is used to separate >> GenericJMX|varnish|curl_json|curl|curl_xml|P2000|tcpconns >> TypeCategory is used to separate some customplugins >> (GenericJMX|elasticsearch|P2000) >> >> Regards, >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> collectd mailing list >> collectd@verplant.org >> http://mailman.verplant.org/listinfo/collectd >> >> >
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