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Improvement
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Status: Open
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Minor
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Description
Sometimes the names of the metrics sent to Graphite contain "." in them (such as hostnames). Graphite interpret these dots as a separator for directories causing long directory hierarchies. It would be easier to replace them to "_" in order to have easier to read metric names.
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HADOOP-15230 org.apache.hadoop.metrics2.GraphiteSink is not implemented correctly
- Patch Available
Other systems that emit metrics to graphite use a similar process. For example, collectd. https://collectd.org/documentation/manpages/collectd.conf.5.shtml#plugin_write_graphite
We should consider making the escape character configurable.