On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 14:34, Dave Rawks <d...@pandora.com> wrote:
> Hey All,
>        We've been talking about adding json in addition to xml for the tcp
> listen port exchange format. And I was curious if the "EXTRA_DATA"
> subtree to the XML ever contains something aside from "EXTRA_ELEMENTS"
> and if the "EXTRA_ELEMENTS" ever have attributes aside from "NAME" and
> "VAL".

<snip interesting  JSON discussion>

> On a relatively small cluster with a dozen metrics and a handful of
> hosts the savings are minor. However on a cluster of hundreds of hosts
> with perhaps dozens of metrics the savings would equate to MBs of data
> per tcp fetch. And the parse speed of the json /should/ be much faster
> as well.

On a slightly different note, extending the gmond protocol itself to
support more than one metric per packet may be useful as well.

-- 
Jesse Becker

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