[Resending to avoid mailman non-subscriber trap, sorry for the ceph-devel dup] Hi, We're working on a collectd plugin for Ceph (ceph.newdream.net) that sluprs up internal metrics and instrumentation values from running ceph daemons. These are a range of random things like operation counts, types, latencies, and so on for various Ceph subsystems. We structured the plugin so that it queries the daemon for the types of the metrics it is gathering so that no modifications to types.db are necessary. This is great because we are adding (and in some cases adjusting) the metrics we collect on an ongoing basis. On the whole, it works great. The problem is when we try to send the metrics to a server with the network plugin. As far as I can tell the server needs to have all the types defined and isn't smart enough to take them from the client. That means that currently the metrics all get dropped on the floor. Is it reasonable to just extend the network plugin protocol to also feed types to the server? Is this something that is planned? As things current stand, it seems like plugins that dynamically define their own types are basically useless in combination with the network plugin... Or am I misunderstanding the situation? Thanks! sage -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
