Re: [pcp] pcp2influxdb - a clone of pcp2graphite

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Alec,

----- Original Message -----
> Hi,
> 
> We are working on switching from graphite to InfluxDB for metric
> storage, mostly for performance reasons. In order to do this, I copied
> pcp2graphite and did a bit of a re-write to get it sending metrics to
> InfluxDB.
> 
> InfluxDB has an HTTP API, which is the main way of sending data to it.
> This patch handles cases with and without authentication.
> 

Good stuff.

> I'm not sure if this is something that you all would be interested in
> adding to PCP or not; InfluxDB is not production ready yet, although a
> 1.0 release is coming soon.

Yes, definitely something we'd love to have in PCP.

> We've been testing it for a couple of days and have not had any issues
> with the patch.

The one thing the patch lacks is the influxdb equivalent of regression
test pcp/qa/667 which would take pcp2influxdb through its paces.  Could
you add something like that little shell script, for influxdb?

cheers.

--
Nathan