jmx yaml recipe doesn't list attributes correctly

[celenechang]

These lines:

https://github.com/DataDog/chef-datadog/blob/master/templates/default/jmx.yaml.erb#L19-L24

result in attributes attribute0, attribute1, etc. instead of the attribute name

[miketheman]

@celenechang It's true, they absolutely do that.
Can you provide more context on what someone would expect? A sample jmx.yaml file with the structure (anonymize the attribute names if they seem private) would be helpful.
I think the alias field ends up being the metric name reported in any case.

[remh]

@miketheman
Instead of attribute0, attribute1, it should be the attribute name as exposed by JMX.
Here is an extract of a configuration:

conf:
    - include:
        attribute:
          maxThreads:
            alias: tomcat.threads.max
            metric_type: gauge
          currentThreadCount:
            alias: tomcat.threads.count
            metric_type: gauge
          bytesReceived:
            alias: tomcat.bytes_rcvd
            metric_type: counter

So it can be any value.

Sorry, i agree that the example file in the dd-agent repo is a bit misleading.
Let me know if you need more details.