Adding a module to write metrics to InfluxDb #815
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@ryantenney I know you are reluctant for new modules but InfluxDb usage is greatly increased. Adding support for InfluxDB would be nice. 👍 |
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Given the newfound focus in v4 on tagged metrics, I will be accepting new reporters for backends which support tags. |
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@ryantenney That's great to know. This metrics-influxdb module also supports tags. |
Adding a module to write metrics to InfluxDb
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@leelasharma merged, thanks! |
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@ryantenney @cemo Actually no real reason, thanks for pointing out. I just submitted a pull request to use the same jackson libraries as the project. |
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| public InfluxDbHttpSender(final String hostname, final int port, final String database, final String authString, | ||
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| this.url = new URL("http", hostname, port, "/write"); |
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We should either add a flag to support HTTPS or we should offer a constructor allowing to pass in the full URL.
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Agreed. I am planning on rewriting this to use the Apache http client. I'll make certain it supports https. |
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In general HTTPS support makes perfect sense, but InfluxDB 0.9 does currently not support HTTPS. There is an open ticket and it looks like it will be included in the next minor release (0.9.2). For the rewrite it could make sense to have a look at the official InfluxDB Java client too. Seems that they are close to releasing a new version that supports the new InfluxDB 0.9 API. |
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I'd suggest also looking at line protocol versus json as it's the preferred method and not deprecated like JSON is. With line protocol there are some performance notes to remember, like sorting tags & escaping certain chars. |
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So what's the status on this feature? Is anyone working on it? |
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https://github.com/davidB/metrics-influxdb and https://github.com/iZettle/dropwizard-metrics-influxdb are the most up to date InfluxDB reporters for Metrics 3.2. Unfortunately, for the 4.0 version there is no active maintained reporter under the |
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Okay thanks for the update! |
Adding metrics-influxdb module to enable writing application metrics to influxdb.
The latest v0.9 influxdb release was announced recently and it will be great to have metrics report to influxdb as well, similar to graphite.