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Nicholas Leskiw (nleskiw) wrote : Re: [Bug 994314] Re: "carbon" as internal stats metric prefix conflicts with hosts named carbon in common scenario

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
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>Status in Graphite - Enterprise scalable realtime graphing:
> Confirmed
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>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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