graphite-dev team mailing list archive

[Josh B <question234201@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

New question #234201 on Graphite:
https://answers.launchpad.net/graphite/+question/234201

I'm wondering what the restrictions are on variable names.  

I'm trying to port my existing homegrown monitoring system into Graphite by simply sending all the data to the carbon listener (in the proper timestamped format, of course).  Unfortunately, very few of my metrics are showing up with actual data.   All of them get whisper files created, and show up in the Graphite GUI, but the vast majority (>95%) have no data - not zeroes, just no data at all, (I'm assuming) because selecting them doesn't even attempt to create a dataset on the active graph.

The only thing I can think of is that many of the variable names are pretty long and have some questionable characters.  I've tried formatting them before sending to carbon to remove said characters, but it didn't help.  The only thing I can think of is that the variable names are too long.  There are several with 100+ characters, but there are some in the ~30 character range that aren't showing up either.

Are there any pre-defined restrictions  on the variable names?  If that doesn't help, is there an easy way to have carbon/whisper generate some useful errors?  Is there a way to dump the data within the whisper files (a la rrdtool dump) to verify that there is indeed a lack of data, and not just something wrong with the GUI?

Thank you!

-- 
You received this question notification because you are a member of
graphite-dev, which is an answer contact for Graphite.