<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 5:08 PM, Foley, Emma L <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emma.l.foley@intel.com" target="_blank">emma.l.foley@intel.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="-1288174950__MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Hi Simon,<u></u><u></u></span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">So collectd acts as a statsd server, and the metrics are aggregated and dispatched to the collectd daemon.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">In order to interact with gnocchi using statsd, we require collectd to act as a statsd client and dispatch the metrics to gnocchi-statsd service.</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>AFAICT there's no such thing out of the box but it should be fairly straightforward to implement a StatsD writer using the collectd Python plugin.<br><br></div><div>Simon<br><br>[1] <a href="https://collectd.org/documentation/manpages/collectd-python.5.shtml">https://collectd.org/documentation/manpages/collectd-python.5.shtml</a><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Regards,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="-1288174950______replyseparator"></a><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Simon Pasquier [mailto:<a href="mailto:spasquier@mirantis.com" target="_blank">spasquier@mirantis.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 1, 2016 9:02 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) <<a href="mailto:openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org" target="_blank">openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org</a>>; Foley, Emma L <<a href="mailto:emma.l.foley@intel.com" target="_blank">emma.l.foley@intel.com</a>><span class=""><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [openstack-dev] [telemetry][ceilometer] New project: collectd-ceilometer-plugin<u></u><u></u></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 6:30 PM, Julien Danjou <<a href="mailto:julien@danjou.info" target="_blank">julien@danjou.info</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p><div><div class="h5">
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Jan 29 2016, Foley, Emma L wrote:<br>
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> Supporting statsd would require some more investigation, as collectd's<br>
> statsd plugin supports reading stats from the system, but not writing<br>
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I'm not sure what that means?<br>
<a href="https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Plugin:StatsD" target="_blank">https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Plugin:StatsD</a> seems to indicate it<br>
can send metrics to a statsd daemon.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt">Nope that is the opposite: collectd can act as a statsd server. The man page [1] is clearer than the collectd Wiki.<u></u><u></u></p>
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[1] <a href="https://collectd.org/documentation/manpages/collectd.conf.5.shtml#plugin_statsd" target="_blank">
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