publishing about atlas

[matschaffer]

Does the standalone (or anything else in this repo) have a way to feed data in? I think I'd find some value from that even if data isn't persisted at all.

[matschaffer]

As for independent metrics, I'd like to try writing into atlas from collectd. If I can get that working, I could probably even use https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Plugin:StatsD to collect individual events from an app.

Granted, not sure how well collectd will play with tagged metrics.

[brharrington]

There is an update coming in a few days that among other things will provide a simple way to run in that manner with the standalone jar.

[matschaffer]

Great, looking forward to it!

[matschaffer]

I did manage to get it running in eclipse using the MemoryDatabase and am getting a sense for how things fit together this evening. Couple questions came up (hope this is an okay forum):

• is there just no way in the current repo to feed the MemoryDatabase?
• where does the standalone get built from? Nothing stood out, but I'm also unfamiliar with the sbt landscape.

I'll also plan to hang out in the netflixoss freenode channel while I work through this. Maybe see you there.

[brharrington]

• Unfortunately no, I thought I had moved that in from the internal but overlooked it. Should get merged in an update soon.
• sbt one-jar

Re irc, not sure I want to run yet another chat system all the time, but I can try it for a while.

[matschaffer]

No worries on the irc. I'll be there either way so whatever works for you. I may experiment with creating an RdsDatabase for starter deployments in the mean time. Still no idea what that might entail, of course. Thanks!

[krutsko]

Do you have any news on that?

Maybe somebody has a successful story with publishing Timers to Atlas?

Just in case, filed a question under Spectator project:
Netflix/spectator#239

[pparth]

+1

[matschaffer]

I've been using hekad to scrape http and publish to atlas over http without
any trouble.

https://github.com/stellar/docker-stellar-core/blob/master/heka/stellar_core_metrics_filter.lua
is
the filter.

It's a little app specific. I have a mostly-functional statsd version I can
post later tonight.

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[matschaffer]

Here's a heka filter for use with the statsd input - https://gist.github.com/matschaffer/877c42dd1a3443a0e2a4

It works but doesn't separate out tags. Was thinking of setting it up so it would allow you to have dotted pairs like request=foo.controller=bar.some.metric.name where it would plug out the things that look like key/value as tags then set the name value to the remainder.

[brharrington]

Thanks @matschaffer ! For the java uses you can also look at:

https://github.com/Netflix/servo/tree/master/servo-atlas

I still need to do quite a bit of work on documentation and getting a few more internal components refactored and merged into the open repo. I'm pretty strapped for time for the next month though.

[krutsko]

Thanks @matschaffer and @brharrington

[brharrington]

Simple example publishing to itself:

https://github.com/Netflix-Skunkworks/iep-apps/tree/master/iep-atlas

There is also a script showing a basic example:

https://github.com/Netflix/atlas/blob/master/scripts/publish-test.sh

[pparth]

@matschaffer I know this is an old issue but have you managed to publish metrics to Atlas from Statsd? Do you have any code to share?