[collectd] CPU utilization

[Stuart Cracraft]

Thanks. Will do. 



> On Feb 19, 2015, at 5:37 PM, Richard Elling <richard.elling at richardelling.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Feb 19, 2015, at 2:17 PM, Stuart Cracraft <smcracraft at me.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Curious, with exec collectd plugin, when doing the echo of
>> 
>> PUTVAL fully-qualified-hostname/something/gauge ….
>> 
>> so that the collect parent gathers it, I’ve observed that there
>> can only be one something in the path. One can’t do:
>> 
>> PUTVAL fully-qualified-hostname/something/anotherthing/gauge (A)
>> 
>> It is limited to one level.
>> 
>> I’m having to do this to get all the information in:
>> 
>> PUTVAL fully-qualified-hostname/something-anotherthing/gauge
>> 
>> The problem with that is if there are many metrics, then the visual
>> (we use graphite) fills up fast and I’d like to keep it hierarchical rather
>> than a flat space.
>> 
>> Any way in collectd to make it hierarchical as in (A)?
> 
> Yes, see the docs on the write_graphite plugin (man collectd.conf) where
> you can configure the EscapeCharacter to choose your separator. Also
> check whether the SeparateInstances option matches your needs.
> -- richard 
>