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Graylog Metrics Reporter Plugins
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proper tagged metrics for datadog #24

Closed jippi closed 7 years ago

jippi commented 7 years ago

today the datadog version send plain old statsd events to the datadog backend

Example 1

graylog_performance.org.graylog2.inputs.extractors.RegexExtractor.regex.cee156be_a210_40b4_8533_efead31f420b.completeExecutionTime.stddev

->

graylog_performance.org.graylog2.inputs.extractors.RegexExtractor.regex.completeExecutionTime.stddev

with tag

regex_id=cee156be_a210_40b4_8533_efead31f420b instead

Example 2

graylog_performance.org.graylog2.inputs.gelf.tcp.GELFTCPInput.5902685b9b54a94e0e4f76f6.total_connections

->

graylog_performance.org.graylog2.inputs.gelf.tcp.GELFTCPInput.total_connections

with tag

output_id=5902685b9b54a94e0e4f76f6

so one unique statsd key, and encode the variance in named tags - see datadog datagram format

Outputting things the way they are now, make them close to useless in the datadog UI, and will take up ~11k metrics (you pay per metric)

joschi commented 7 years ago

@jippi That's currently not possible, because Graylog is using Dropwizard Metrics internally which doesn't support tags.

We don't have the resources nor the intention to change this in the short or middle term. This being said, PRs for implementing extracting tags from these metric names are welcome!

jippi commented 7 years ago

Thanks @joschi :)