Github user revans2 commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/2203
@ptgoetz I think we can fix most of the issues simply by restricting what
name a metric can have (i.e. no `:` allowed and then we use `:` as a
deliminator). That will give us a guarantee on being able to parse it. Once
we can parse it hopefully we can look at updating the other plugins to make
them be able to parse the name and turn it into a smaller name with tags.---
