Measurement configruation

[tevjef]

Is there a way to choose or override the default measurement/series name? Currently it defaults to the fluentd tag which is not ideal in some configruations.

[repeatedly]

What does 'measurement name' mean?

[tevjef]

It seems like it is called "series" in the InfluxDB ruby library. Other InfluxDB libraries I've used (Go, Java, Javascript) call it the "measurement". An issue was raised in the library repo for this naming issue.

Here is the value I'd like to be customizable:
https://github.com/fangli/fluent-plugin-influxdb/blob/master/lib/fluent/plugin/out_influxdb.rb#L143

[irom77]

I have probably similar question. I got this plugin writing syslog to InfluxDB , but I don't like whole 'message' as InfluxDB tag like below

> select * from "syslog.local0.err" limit 1
name: syslog.local0.err
-----------------------
time                    host                            ident   message
1484667052000000000     MR-DC.com  1       30:52,001901000999,THREAT,vulnerability,1,2016/01/17 15:30:52,10.3.2.7,155.19.1.6,20.16.12.5,15.19.9.9,to INTERNET,wm\clustersqlservice,,ssh,vsys1,db_backups,isp2,ae1.22,ae3.32,LF-kibana,2016/01/17 15:30:52,67393685,1,49426,22,62473,22,0x80404000,tcp,alert,"",SSH User Authentication Brute Force Attempt(40015),any,high,client-to-server,7899681,0x0,10.0.0.0-10.255.255.255,US,0,,1490491961841411253,,,0,,,,,,,,0,38,0,0,0,PROD,MR-DC,

what I want is to use format csv (see commented below) and get field1,2,3 in InfluxDB, but once I try to uncomment it I don't receive anything in the InfluxDB

<source>
  @type syslog       
  bind 0.0.0.0      
  port 11514            
  tag syslog #syslog.local0.err local0.crit 
  #format csv
  #keys field1, field2, field3
</source>

[repeatedly]

Is measurement parameter enough?
Configuration example:

<match app.**>
  @type influxdb
  measurement foo # use foo instead of tag
</match>

I will implement this parameter soon.

[tevjef]

That would be perfect!

[repeatedly]

Added and released v0.3.2. Try it!

[tevjef]

Thanks! It works perfectly.