<div dir="ltr">To be more specific, I'm trying to find out what the tail plugin is sending to the server - for instance, if I am providing data to a GaugeAverage type metric, does the tail plugin submit a value for every line read from the file? Or does the plugin aggregate the data by time first and send a value every interval? I need to emulate that behavior. I know that wireshark can decode the collectd binary protocol, if there is some way to make the tail plugin use it then I can get an idea of what it is sending.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 9:06 PM, CJ Ess <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zxcvbn4038@gmail.com" target="_blank">zxcvbn4038@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">I need to write a collectd helper that can handle a file format which the tail plugin can not. Is there a way I can run the tail plugin directly so I can see what it is sending to collectd for the various metrics as a guide?<div><br></div></div>
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