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A storage plugin for folsom that stores data into DalmatinerDB, metric collection can be triggered on a given interval.

Configuration

A cuttlefish schema file is provided in the priv directory otherwise the following app.config parameters are valid:

enabled

true or false, enables or disables the entire collection, can be used to include it in systems that do not run DalmatinerDB causing 0 overhead.

ip

{Host, Port} the Host and Port of the DalmatinerDB instance to send to.

bucket

A string (not binary) of the bucket to use to store data.

prefix

A string (not binary), the prefix to ad to each metric, the nodename is NOT automatically included.

buffer_size

The approximitely send buffer size, please keep in mind that it is not a hard limit so select it a decent bit over the receive buffer of DalmatinerDB.

Especially with histograms the buffer size can be overstepped sicne it is checked only after each metric.

interval

Time between collection runs in milliseconds, 1000 (1 second) is a good number.

vm_metrics

true or false, enable colection of VM metrics.