Hi, I've recently take a deeper look at the metrics in HBase and I was wondering why some info ended up in the metric name rather than in tags for RegionServerDynamicStatistics.
For example I see metrics names like: RegionServerDynamicStatistics.tbl.-ROOT-.region.70236052.writerequestcount with tag 'hostName'. Why not move 'tbl.-ROOT-.region.70236052' in two tags 'tbl' and 'region' and have the simpler 'RegionServerDynamicsStatistics.writerequestcount' metric name instead? Same thing for things like 'RegionServerDynamicStatistics.tbl.TABLE.cf.COLFAM.storeFileCount', tags 'tbl' and 'cf' would seem more logical to me. Mathias.
