gangliaSink.md

ganglia sink

The ganglia sink uses the gmetric tool of the Ganglia Monitoring System to submit the metrics

Configuration structure

{
  "<name>": {
    "type": "ganglia",
    "gmetric_path" : "/path/to/gmetric",
    "add_ganglia_group" : true,
    "process_messages" : {
      "see" : "docs of message processor for valid fields"
    },
    "meta_as_tags" : []
  }
}

• type: makes the sink an ganglia sink
• gmetric_path: Path to gmetric executable (optional). If not given, the sink searches in $PATH for gmetric.
• add_ganglia_group: Add --group=X based on meta information to the gmetric call. Some old versions of gmetric do not support the --group option.
• process_messages: Process messages with given rules before progressing or dropping, see here (optional)
• meta_as_tags: print all meta information as tags in the output (deprecated, optional)