"carbon" as internal stats metric prefix conflicts with hosts named carbon in common scenario

[Jeff Blaine]

If I have a host named "carbon", I can't use "carbon" as a prefix for that host's metrics because it is already taken by the internal carbon stats.

[Jeff Blaine (jblaine-kickflop)]

I'll take on this challenge.

[Nicholas Leskiw (nleskiw)]

You will probably want to start in carbon/lib/carbon/instrumentation.py
-Nick

Jeff Blaine <email address hidden> wrote:

>I'll take on this challenge.
>
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>Title:
> "carbon" as internal stats metric prefix conflicts with hosts named
> carbon in common scenario
>
>Status in Graphite - Enterprise scalable realtime graphing:
> Confirmed
>
>Bug description:
> If I have a host named "carbon", I can't use "carbon" as a prefix for
> that host's metrics because it is already taken by the internal carbon
> stats.
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[Jeff Blaine (jblaine-kickflop)]

Thanks Nick.

The main devs here should pick what it should be renamed.

Suggestions:

carbon-internal

_carbon

carbon_data

If I don't hear from anyone in a week or so, I'm going to just go with _carbon.

[Jeff Blaine (jblaine-kickflop)]

Oh, I suppose I could just make it configurable and leave the default as 'carbon'.

That's probably the right thing. Duh.

[Nicholas Leskiw (nleskiw)]

I agree, you can put an option in carbon.conf called 'CARBON_METRIC_PREFIX' or something similar.

Thanks for your help.

-Nick

Jeff Blaine <email address hidden> wrote:

>Oh, I suppose I could just make it configurable and leave the default as
>'carbon'.
>
>That's probably the right thing. Duh.
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>Title:
> "carbon" as internal stats metric prefix conflicts with hosts named
> carbon in common scenario
>
>Status in Graphite - Enterprise scalable realtime graphing:
> Confirmed
>
>Bug description:
> If I have a host named "carbon", I can't use "carbon" as a prefix for
> that host's metrics because it is already taken by the internal carbon
> stats.
>
>To manage notifications about this bug go to:
>https://bugs.launchpad.net/graphite/+bug/994314/+subscriptions

[Jeff Blaine (jblaine-kickflop)]

This was merged in as ca51ef411d0097ae0cdca9e7ca3bc7576210c81a and is found in release 0.9.10