[enhancement] plugin should deal with nested fields better

[blysik]

If I have a nested field like:

metrics => {
  requests => 1020
  foo => 984894
  bar => 323
}

Graphite output should walk the nested field, and DTRT in sending it to graphite. In my example, it would do:

metrics.request 1020 timestamp
metrics.foo 984894 timestamp
metrics.bar 323 timestamp

[andrewvc]

@blysik is it the case that your expectation is using the graphite output like so:

graphite {
  fields_are_metrics => ['metrics'] 
}

should cause it to perform the transformation you're thinking of?

[blysik]

Yes! That's exactly my expectation. (Or some regex similar to that.)

[andrewvc]

@blysik great, we'll get that released in the next day or two. It'll work with either metrics or fields_are_metrics, your choice!

[blysik]

Awesome! Look forward to trying it out.

[andrewvc]

Released in version 1.0.1 . Enjoy @blysik !