[rrd-developers] JSON output for rrdtool (XPORT mod)

[Tobias Oetiker]

Hi Erik,

Today Erik Kastner wrote:

> Sweet!
>
> I'd be happy to extract it out to a common location, however I'm a bit
> confused. rrd_cgi.c doesn't look like it uses the xport functionality
> at all. Am I missing something?

no it does not, but if it did, it would make a good data provider
for people writing the web part ...

> I'll be showing the front-end stuff I hacked tonight during tomorrow's
> IRC meeting on the ganglia front-end. After that, I'll put it
> somewhere public facing to show you.
> Here's a screenshot till then:
> http://cl.ly/766a3c5c3d3bcb9f92a2

:-)

cheers
tobi

>
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:06 AM, Tobias Oetiker <tobi at oetiker.ch> wrote:
> > Hi Erik,
> >
> > Cool stuff ! Will be glad to add ... Note, some might like to have
> > this integrated in rrd_cgi as well ... so maybe the formatting code
> > should be kept in a separate file ... are you still in a hacking
> > mood ?
> >
> > Got any cool graphing frontend to show off ?
> >
> > cheers
> > tobi
> >
> > Yesterday Erik Kastner wrote:
> >
> >> Hey everyone. I've been playing with some javascript graphing ideas. I
> >> was taking XPORT output and transforming it into json. I was forwarded
> >> an email from this list
> >> (http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/forum.en.html#nabble-td3575399), and
> >> chatting with some folks in #ganglia. After poking around the source,
> >> I realized it would be pretty easy to have rrdtool spit out json (in
> >> the format I was looking for). After a little hacking, I came up with
> >> this patch:
> >>
> >> http://gist.github.com/614476
> >>
> >> I'm not suggesting it go in as is - I don't know anything about how
> >> you all handle development, etc. I just wanted to start a discussion
> >> about the merits of this - and my approach thus far.
> >>
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