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[Nick <nleskiw@xxxxxxxxx>]

It's all regular expressions, and the first one that matches is used. So if you had loadAvg somewhere in all the load average metrics, a valid patter would be 'loadAvg' with nothing else. 

-Nick

On Dec 21, 2012, at 12:11 PM, gyre007 <question217371@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> New question #217371 on Graphite:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/graphite/+question/217371
> 
> Hi there,
> I'm a total Graphite rookie.
> I have a question. If I want to gather let's say load avg from let's sat 10 servers. Do I need to define separate schema for each of them in storage-schemas.conf  or will Graphite store these separately automatically so that I can graph them separately ?
> I mean will this be enough to gather data for all servers sending this stat:
> 
> [garbage_collection]
> pattern = garbageCollections$
> retentions = 10s:14d
> 
> Or do I have to have a regexp and separate schema for each of the servers ie:
> 
> [garbage_collection_w1]
> pattern = w1.garbageCollections$
> retentions = 10s:14d
> 
> [garbage_collection_w2]
> pattern = w2.garbageCollections$
> retentions = 10s:14d
> ....
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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