Tab-delimited Graphite input

[ianunruh]

InfluxDB's plaintext Graphite input relies on fields being space-delimited in each entry. However, Carbon (for better or worse) is more forgiving (https://github.com/graphite-project/carbon/blob/master/lib/carbon/protocols.py#L74) when receiving plaintext metrics. Due to the behavior of Python 2.7's split method, it will accept tabs or an arbitrary number of spaces between fields as delimiters.

This ambiguity means that different producers of Graphite metrics (like Sensu metrics plugins) have different delimiters between fields and are therefore not compatible with InfluxDB as a Graphite receiver. What would be the implications of making the InfluxDB Graphite input (https://github.com/influxdb/influxdb/blob/master/src/api/graphite/graphite_metric.go#L31) compatible with these producers?

[ianunruh]

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