<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Justin Lloyd <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jllwyd@gmail.com" target="_blank">jllwyd@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hey all,<div><br></div><div>I'm looking for a way to have Collectd be able to send to a set of Graphite relays. Basically right now I have a three-layered Graphite setup, with a layer of four relays (for load distribution and server redundancy) sending to a layer of four aggregators that send to a set of carbon-cache processes on the cache server. I need my Collectd agents to be able to send to any of the four relays but I can't figure out how to accomplish this.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hi Justin;</div><div><br></div><div>If you want clients to truly send to <b>any</b> of the relay nodes, then maybe you want to look at fronting your relays with load-balancing, or maybe even round-robin DNS? Each have their benefits and tradeoffs, of course, but in either case the collectd config is as simple as having a single relay destination.</div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div> I was hoping the <a href="http://collectd.org/documentation/manpages/collectd.conf.5.shtml#filter_configuration" target="_blank">filtering</a> capability would help but I don't see a way to specify a relay-specific write_graphite plugin per rule.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>In that case, would you be sending to <b>all</b> of the relays? (vs. any)</div><div><br></div><div>-tt</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Any suggestions? I did come across <a href="https://github.com/obfuscurity/backstop" target="_blank">backstop</a> but I didn't want to introduce a Rack app into the mix.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Justin</div><div><br></div></div>
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