Not sure if this answers your question, but starting with 5.6, the following config should allow you to add arbitry key-values to outgoing metrics:
<Plugin write_http> <Node "example"> URL "http://localhost:4567/collectd-post" Format "json" </Node> </Plugin> PostCacheChain "PostCache" <Chain "PostCache"> <Rule "test"> <Match "regex"> Plugin "^cpu$" </Match> <Target "set"> MetaData "foo" "bar" </Target> </Rule> Target "write" </Chain> Running with the config above, values such as this get POSTed by collectd's write_http plugin: {"values":[136247],"dstypes":["derive"],"dsnames":["value"],"time":1478019107.077,"interval":1.000,"host":"localhost","plugin":"cpu","plugin_instance":"2","type":"cpu","type_instance":"idle","meta":{"foo":"bar"}}, HTH, Marc Shirly Radco <sra...@redhat.com> writes: > Would really appreciate if you can elaborate how... > > Thank you in advance, > > Shirly Radco > > BI Software Engineer > Red Hat Israel Ltd. > 34 Jerusalem Road > Building A, 4th floor > Ra'anana, Israel 4350109 > > > On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 1:36 PM, Aurelien ROUGEMONT <be...@binaries.fr> > wrote: > >> On 10/13/2016 12:29 PM, Shirly Radco wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > Is there an option to dynamically generate the tag in the collectd >> > write_http plugin? >> > (Use the record values to add as tag) >> > >> > Thank you, >> > >> > Shirly Radco >> > >> > BI Software Engineer Red Hat Israel Ltd. 34 Jerusalem Road Building A, >> > 4th floor Ra'anana, Israel 4350109 >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > collectd mailing list >> > collectd@verplant.org >> > https://mailman.verplant.org/listinfo/collectd >> > >> Hello Shirly, >> >> I've done just that in the kairosdb format for write_http >> >> Aurelien >> >> -- >> Aurelien ROUGEMONT >> be...@binaries.fr >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> collectd mailing list >> collectd@verplant.org >> https://mailman.verplant.org/listinfo/collectd >> > _______________________________________________ > collectd mailing list > collectd@verplant.org > https://mailman.verplant.org/listinfo/collectd _______________________________________________ collectd mailing list collectd@verplant.org https://mailman.verplant.org/listinfo/collectd