Take data from salt and "return" it into a carbon receiver
Add the following configuration to the minion configuration files:
carbon.host: <server ip address>
carbon.port: 2003
Errors when trying to convert data to numbers may be ignored by setting carbon.skip_on_error to True:
carbon.skip_on_error: True
By default, data will be sent to carbon using the plaintext protocol. To use the pickle protocol, set carbon.mode to pickle:
carbon.mode: pickle
Carbon settings may also be configured as:
carbon:
host: <server IP or hostname>
port: <carbon port>
skip_on_error: True
mode: (pickle|text)
To use the carbon returner, append '--return carbon' to the salt command. ex:
salt '*' test.ping --return carbon
Do any work necessary to prepare a JID, including sending a custom id
Return data to a remote carbon server using the text metric protocol
Each metric will look like:
[module].[function].[minion_id].[metric path [...]].[metric name]
Docs for previous releases are available on salt.rtfd.org.
Latest Salt release: 2014.7.1
22.23.3.1.20. salt.returners.syslog_return
22.23.3.1.2. salt.returners.cassandra_return
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