Netflix-Skunkworks / spectatord

A high performance metrics daemon
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add --no_common_tags flag #89

Closed copperlight closed 3 months ago

copperlight commented 3 months ago

The purpose of this flag is to remove all common tags, so that users can override any common tags they wish, including nf.app, by providing them in the protocol line. Note that a proper environment is still required, so that the publish URI can be determined correctly.

This feature should only be used for secondary spectatord processes on an instance. A standard process should exist, so that atlas-system-agent metrics can be received and published.

When this feature is active, the publishing of internal status metrics is disabled, because we cannot attribute the metrics correctly in the absence of common tags.