Thanks. Will do.
> On Feb 19, 2015, at 5:37 PM, Richard Elling > <richard.ell...@richardelling.com> wrote: > > >> 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
