Additional graphite options to reduce overall stat counts when not needed

[jeff-minard-ck]

Essentially, I was writing tons and tons of stats that I didn't need because of all the extra calculated stats that statsd::graphite pulls together. I wanted less, instead of commenting things out locally, I thought I'd turn them into options.

Three new options, pretty straight forward, see the diff and they are documented in the exampleConfig.js file.

[travisbot]

This pull request passes (merged cd9daa5 into 4e4ed79).

[mrtazz]

Great idea! Some corrections and performance improvements have been made in the graphite backend. Would you mind basing your Pull Request on top of those changes?

[jeff-minard-ck]

So, I updated my master from etsy/master, then I merged the master into this branch (went cleanly) and I guess the pull request now shows as much? Give it a try.

[travisbot]

This pull request fails (merged 709c047 into 42ff275).

[jeff-minard-ck]

No fair, it failed because github was busted...

Using worker: nodejs1.worker.travis-ci.org:travis-nodejs-1

$ cd ~/builds
$ git clone --depth=100 --quiet git://github.com/etsy/statsd.git etsy/statsd
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

Done. Build script exited with: 1

[mrtazz]

awesome, thanks. Will do.

[outmost]

I'm looking into exactly the same issue - having lots of metrics calculated by StatsD that aren't required. Will this be added to the master in the near future?