[HADOOP-12511] Add support for InfluxDB as metrics sink

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Patch Available
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: metrics
• Assignee: Masatake Iwasaki
• Reporter: Masatake Iwasaki
• Created: 26/Oct/15 01:28
• Updated: 22/Dec/16 16:30

Description

Add InfluxDBSink to write metrics to InfluxDB. Because the Line Protocol of InfluxDB expects data structure similar to MetricsRecord consisting of tags, metric values and timestamp, we can easily map the records to the format. We can use REST API or UDP to send records to InfluxDB.