New question #234201 on Graphite:
https://answers.launchpad.net/graphite/+question/234201

I'm wondering what the restrictions are on variable names.  

I'm trying to port my existing homegrown monitoring system into Graphite by 
simply sending all the data to the carbon listener (in the proper timestamped 
format, of course).  Unfortunately, very few of my metrics are showing up with 
actual data.   All of them get whisper files created, and show up in the 
Graphite GUI, but the vast majority (>95%) have no data - not zeroes, just no 
data at all, (I'm assuming) because selecting them doesn't even attempt to 
create a dataset on the active graph.

The only thing I can think of is that many of the variable names are pretty 
long and have some questionable characters.  I've tried formatting them before 
sending to carbon to remove said characters, but it didn't help.  The only 
thing I can think of is that the variable names are too long.  There are 
several with 100+ characters, but there are some in the ~30 character range 
that aren't showing up either.

Are there any pre-defined restrictions  on the variable names?  If that doesn't 
help, is there an easy way to have carbon/whisper generate some useful errors?  
Is there a way to dump the data within the whisper files (a la rrdtool dump) to 
verify that there is indeed a lack of data, and not just something wrong with 
the GUI?

Thank you!

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