[rrd-developers] RRDCacheD - Client rewriting path

[Thorsten von Eicken]

Tobias Oetiker wrote:
> Hi Thorsten,
> 
> Today Thorsten von Eicken wrote:
> 
>> I totally concur. We use collectd and rrdtool in production, monitoring
>> thousands of machines and I rather not know how many rrds. We have tens
>> of servers running to collect all the data and can't wait to deploy
>> rrdcached. We've tried but ran into a bug with flushing (it didn't do
>> it) which we still need to reproduce cleanly. We desperately want a full
>> networked daemon so we can aggregate across arbitrary monitored servers
>> whose rrds end up on different rrdcached servers. Security is a
>> low-priority issue because (a) the data is not all that sensitive to
>> start with and (b) all this is behind firewall, plus (c) the server ids
>> used by the data collection are not easy to map back to something
>> meaningful. The one feature we will need is the ability to fetch data
>> from rrdcached. This is necessary to aggregate across multiple rrd
>> stores and also for performance. We compute alerts from the data in rrds
>> so there is a constant fetch stream going on, not just when someone is
>> actively looking at graphs.
> 
> :-) well 1.4 will probably only bring part of the sollution for
> you. Also note that the fetching will cause the daemon to be
> flushed which kills the performance gains ... the sollution here is for
> the daemon to support updatev (there is a plan on how todo this but
> it is also for 1.5) then you get the data values as they are shoved into the
> RRAs right which allows you todo alerts without killing performance ...

Thanks for reminding me, sigh...

> regarding the flusing problem, could you test this again, as I
> think there were some fixes in this area.

Will do!

> cheers
> tobi

TvE