Re: [prometheus-users] Re: [prometheus-developers] Looking for a maintainer for the collectd_exporter

2020-05-11 Thread Julius Volz 
Awesome, thanks for the insight, Florian!

I suggest to mark the collectd_exporter then, and move it into our junkyard
organization after a while of nobody complaining. I'll send a PR for that.

On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 9:36 PM Florian Forster  wrote:

> Hi Julius, hi Harald, hi lists,
>
> I'm not aware of anything that the collectd_exporter does that the
> "write_prometheus" plugin doesn't support – and I'm happy to get the
> plugin to feature parity if anything comes up.
>
> When switching to the plugin, a collectd_exporter that is running
> alongside collectd (like a sidecar or some such) can be removed. A
> collectd_exporter that is running centrally (many collectd's, one
> exporter) can be replaced by a collectd or Prometheus instance. Either
> way, the overall complexity of the setup is reduced. (*)
>
> Hope this helps :)
> Best regards,
> —octo
>
> (*) In theory. I'm not operating such a setup myself.
>
> On 2020-05-10 13:22, Julius Volz wrote:
> > That's a good question - googling I found
> > https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Plugin:Write_Prometheus, which
> > says:
> >
> > "This plugin is similar in scope to the collectd_exporter written by
> > the Prometheus team and uses the same naming schema so it can be used
> > as a drop-in alternative."
> >
> > So maybe we could indeed deprecate the Collectd Exporter. I'm just not
> > familiar enough with Collectd to say for sure if the exporter is doing
> > anything important over that plugin.
> >
> > +cc Florian Forster, who was involved in both - maybe you can provide
> > more insight?
> >
> > On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 5:59 PM Harald Koch 
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On Sat, May 9, 2020, at 04:23, Ben Kochie wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri, May 8, 2020, 16:10 Julius Volz 
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> By some historic accident I became the maintainer of the collectd
> >> exporter (https://github.com/prometheus/collectd_exporter), although
> >> I have never used collectd myself and know very little about it.
> >> This has led to some neglect from my side...
> >>
> >> Does anyone feel invested in collectd and feels qualified to
> >> maintain it?
> >
> > Collectd has a built-in prometheus exporter, so I don't know if this
> > is still necessary?
> >
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Re: [prometheus-users] Re: [prometheus-developers] Looking for a maintainer for the collectd_exporter

2020-05-10 Thread Florian Forster 

Hi Julius, hi Harald, hi lists,

I'm not aware of anything that the collectd_exporter does that the 
"write_prometheus" plugin doesn't support – and I'm happy to get the 
plugin to feature parity if anything comes up.


When switching to the plugin, a collectd_exporter that is running 
alongside collectd (like a sidecar or some such) can be removed. A 
collectd_exporter that is running centrally (many collectd's, one 
exporter) can be replaced by a collectd or Prometheus instance. Either 
way, the overall complexity of the setup is reduced. (*)


Hope this helps :)
Best regards,
—octo

(*) In theory. I'm not operating such a setup myself.

On 2020-05-10 13:22, Julius Volz wrote:

That's a good question - googling I found
https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Plugin:Write_Prometheus, which
says:

"This plugin is similar in scope to the collectd_exporter written by
the Prometheus team and uses the same naming schema so it can be used
as a drop-in alternative."

So maybe we could indeed deprecate the Collectd Exporter. I'm just not
familiar enough with Collectd to say for sure if the exporter is doing
anything important over that plugin.

+cc Florian Forster, who was involved in both - maybe you can provide
more insight?

On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 5:59 PM Harald Koch 
wrote:


On Sat, May 9, 2020, at 04:23, Ben Kochie wrote:

On Fri, May 8, 2020, 16:10 Julius Volz 
wrote:

By some historic accident I became the maintainer of the collectd
exporter (https://github.com/prometheus/collectd_exporter), although
I have never used collectd myself and know very little about it.
This has led to some neglect from my side...

Does anyone feel invested in collectd and feels qualified to
maintain it?


Collectd has a built-in prometheus exporter, so I don't know if this
is still necessary?

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Re: [prometheus-users] Re: [prometheus-developers] Looking for a maintainer for the collectd_exporter

2020-05-10 Thread Julius Volz 
That's a good question - googling I found
https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Plugin:Write_Prometheus, which says:

"This plugin is similar in scope to the collectd_exporter written by the
Prometheus team and uses the same naming schema so it can be used as a
drop-in alternative."

So maybe we could indeed deprecate the Collectd Exporter. I'm just not
familiar enough with Collectd to say for sure if the exporter is doing
anything important over that plugin.

+cc Florian Forster, who was involved in both - maybe you can provide more
insight?

On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 5:59 PM Harald Koch  wrote:

> On Sat, May 9, 2020, at 04:23, Ben Kochie wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 8, 2020, 16:10 Julius Volz  wrote:
>
> By some historic accident I became the maintainer of the collectd exporter
> (https://github.com/prometheus/collectd_exporter), although I have never
> used collectd myself and know very little about it. This has led to some
> neglect from my side...
>
> Does anyone feel invested in collectd and feels qualified to maintain it?
>
>
> Collectd has a built-in prometheus exporter, so I don't know if this is
> still necessary?
>
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