> On Feb 19, 2015, at 2:17 PM, Stuart Cracraft <smcracr...@me.com> wrote: > > Curious, with exec collectd plugin, when doing the echo of > > PUTVAL fully-qualified-hostname/something/gauge …. > > so that the collect parent gathers it, I’ve observed that there > can only be one something in the path. One can’t do: > > PUTVAL fully-qualified-hostname/something/anotherthing/gauge (A) > > It is limited to one level. > > I’m having to do this to get all the information in: > > PUTVAL fully-qualified-hostname/something-anotherthing/gauge > > The problem with that is if there are many metrics, then the visual > (we use graphite) fills up fast and I’d like to keep it hierarchical rather > than a flat space. > > Any way in collectd to make it hierarchical as in (A)?
Yes, see the docs on the write_graphite plugin (man collectd.conf) where you can configure the EscapeCharacter to choose your separator. Also check whether the SeparateInstances option matches your needs. -- richard _______________________________________________ collectd mailing list collectd@verplant.org http://mailman.verplant.org/listinfo/collectd
