Re: [pcp] pcp2influxdb - a clone of pcp2graphite

[Alec Ten Harmsel <alec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/30/2016 7:04 PM, Nathan Scott wrote:
> 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.
Thank  you for taking some time to look at it. Glad that we can help, too.

> > 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?
I will certainly do this, but it'll take a few days. We are pretty busy 
getting ready for some maintenance that will happen in a couple of weeks.
Alec