[Hawkular-dev] agent using custom metric IDs

[Lukas Krejci]

On čtvrtek 7. července 2016 17:31:14 CEST John Mazzitelli wrote:
> > What if you used the inventory's canonical path as an the metric ID
> 
> Well, that doesn't solve the problem. That would just be replacing one
> auto-generated ID for another one. The requirement is to allow a user to be
> able to customize the metric ID to something the user wants. See the JIRA
> for details: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/HWKAGENT-78

Hmm, good point.

I wonder then if this should not evolve into something more engrained into 
inventory. Something like "AKA" property on the entities:

"also-known-as": {
  "h-metrics": "h-metrics-specific-id",
  "h-alerts": "another-id",
  "collectd": "yet-another-id",
  "rhq": "some-id",
  "legacy-monitoring-system-in-our-enterprise": "blah-id",
  ...
}

Well, maybe your approach of just shoving this info in general purpose 
properties is enough. All the clients would still need to know where to look 
for the other ids, so the above would possibly not bring too much 
simplification for the clients. Consolidation maybe, but not simplification.

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Lukas Krejci